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Sunset at Sea by Thomas Moran, 1906.
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Sunset at Sea by Thomas Moran, 1906.
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Author Susan Sontag Rallies from Dread Illness to Enjoy Her First Commercial Triumph
Metropolitan Diary in summary form, via the City Room RSS
Bob Mould, a forty-something with thinning hair and no other musical accompaniment, hit the stage first. He tore off a brisk 45-minute set, warming up the crowd with his electric, Ted Leo-esque sound. Although he wasn’t well-known, Mould has collaborated with Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard and Foo Fighters.
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http://www.dailyemerald.com/2011/05/28/sasquatch-foo-fighters-leave-crowd-satisfied-fatigued/
Higher education cuts leave the U of O without Google for its student journalists?
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prerevolutionary Russian, actually; kerosene lamps, anyway
Vintage USSR poster
there is a passion for tall flagstaffs hereabout.: In April 2008, Sheldrake was stabbed in the leg during a lecture at...
In April 2008, Sheldrake was stabbed in the leg during a lecture at the La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was presenting as part of the tenth annual International Conference on Science and Consciousness. Sheldrake has since recovered. The assailant, Japanese born laborer Kazuki…
It’s easy to miss how subversive Tom Otterness’s cute bronze figures in the NYC subway really are. .
Subversive???? Not exactly the word I’d use for the kind of guy who sells fugly playground toys to the likes of Larry Silverstein for $1.2 million apiece. As Otterness himself told the NYT, “You’d be surprised at the number of real-estate guys who have collected The Marriage of Real Estate and Money.” This isn’t subversive, it’s pandering.
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