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Chiquita Banana Jingle

In 2006, the popular indie rock band of Montreal allowed the restaurant chain Outback Steakhouse to use a version of their song “Wraith Pinned to the Mist (and Other Games)” in a…
PUBLISHED: May 1, 2013
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4287 words)

The Fourth Skull: A Tale of Authenticity and Fraud - Vol. 1, No. 2

Benjamin Breen, 2013 This is a story of four different skulls that reached three of the world’s largest museums under less than transparent circumstances—a fact that was mildly ironic…
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7159 words)

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Coast Guard flight mechanic Neil Moulder leaned out of a swaying Jayhawk helicopter and into the full force of Hurricane Sandy, pulling with all his weight on a thick steel cable. Forty feet below, a…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 11, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1074 words)

Breaking Bread with Breitbart

From left to right: Andrew Breitbart, Jamie Weinstein, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Tucker Carlson / Courtesy of Breitbart TV In December 2011 a tiny but wondrous Chicago program of the Illinois…
AUTHOR:Bill Ayers
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2980 words)

Bryan Hurt

[view as PDF / Issuu] Brandon and Kara went hiking but were unprepared for the physical challenge. “Hiking is hard work,” said Kara. She cupped her hands and drank from a limpid…
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7139 words)
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The Miraculous Privilege of Existence by Michelle Kuo and Albert Wu

IN 1962, ON THE EVE of the hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, James Baldwin famously wrote: This is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3203 words)

Breaking Bread with Breitbart

From left to right: Andrew Breitbart, Jamie Weinstein, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Tucker Carlson / Courtesy of Breitbart TV In December 2011 a tiny but wondrous Chicago program of the Illinois…
AUTHOR:Bill Ayers
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2980 words)

Havel's Specter: On Václav Havel

“A specter is haunting Eastern Europe,” the Czech playwright Václav Havel wrote in 1978, “the specter of what in the West is called ‘dissent.’” In echoing the…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4692 words)

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Tags: books, collecting, Jorge Luis Borges, libraries, St. Jerome,
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2063 words)
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