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Zero Dark Thirty, the CIA and film critics have a very bad evening

Kathryn Bigelow (right) on the set of Zero Dark Thirty. Just a few months ago, the consensus of the establishment press and the nation's (shockingly large) community of film critics was that Zero…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 25, 2013
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1696 words)
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The World Is Not Enough: Google and the Future of Augmented Reality

The new Google FieldTrip app probes the question: What digital information do you want to see overlaid on the physical world? A book in The Future.It is The Future. You wake up at dawn and fumble on…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 25, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2787 words)

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Simon Reynolds interviews Greil Marcus

Image: Thierry Arditti, Paris Earlier this year I visited Greil Marcus, widely considered the greatest living rock writer, at his home on the border between Berkeley and Oakland to profile him for…
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4815 words)

Fat, Drunk, and Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House

Excerpted from Fat, Drunk, and Stupid by Matty Simmons. Copyright © 2012 by the author and reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Press, LLC. Used by permission. All rights reserved. No…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2193 words)
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Pun(k)s, Pranks, and Provocations

In his history of British punk, England’s Dreaming (New York: St. Martin’s, 2002), Jon Savage recounts the 1975 debut audition of John Lydon (soon-to-be Johnny Rotten) with the…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2004 words)
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Steven Soderbergh

Director Steven Soderbergh is serious about retirement. With three more movies in various stages of production—the male-stripper movie Magic Mike, due later this year, followed by the Blake…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2873 words)

"You 'Da Boss?" Collective Creation

There are many forms of collective creation that run the whole spectrum, from merely coloring in someone else’s existing drawing to the actual creation of a thing from scratch. Often this…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 12, 2011
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4295 words)

David Foster Wallace on the vagaries of cruising

For seven days and seven nights in mid-March of 1995, David Foster Wallace took a cruise. He did not have a very good time. The results of the voyage are recorded in Shipping Out, an extended essay,…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 18, 2011
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1862 words)
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