April 2008 Archives
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Listening
Ulterior Music
Relatively Clean Rivers, “Hello Sunshine” (download) I’m not sure how many people recognized the reference to Relatively Clean Rivers in the stories a few months back about Adam Gadahn,...
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Of Recent Note
Things We’re Denying Ourselves
A recession looms at the door—before it arrives, we have an opportunity to improve our minds, bodies, and wallets. Though we may soon be denying ourselves more than pleasures, this is what we’re omitting right now.
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Announcements
Shouting-out Jennifer Daniel
Not only does she have the internet's best web address, Jennifer Daniel recently had the grace to join TMN as a contributing artist, and we are thankful.You may have...
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Spoofs & Satire
A Mnemonic Guide to Remembering New Planets
Memorizing the newly assigned 11 planets may be tough for anyone who’s already graduated fifth grade.
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Reading
Book Digest: April 28, 2008
Joan Frank, whose first novel Miss Kansas City I reviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle, responded to my query about what she is reading: I’ve been reading Twenty-Eight Artists...
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Gallery
Worlds of Interiors
It would be interesting to interview British artist Anne Hardy’s cleaning lady. She turns her studio into spaces—worlds without people, but apparently heavily and recently used.
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Watching
Video Digest: April 25, 2008
Ever since I saw The Five Obstructions a couple years ago, I’ve been a fan of Jørgen Leth’s short film The Perfect Human. Perhaps more than a...
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The Non-Expert
Easy-Fake Oven
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. In this week’s installment we break down all that pre-heating nonsense, with a heating guide for 21st-century cookery.
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Blaise Kearsley
Jason S. Little
Birthplace: Bedford, Ind. Occupation: Actor and dean of Students at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting Favorite role you’ve played? Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (it was...
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Listening
The TMN Summer Fest
With South by Southwest already a fading memory and the glory of spring officially upon us, fans of live music across the country are turning their attention to the gigantic...
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The Guilfoile-Warner Papers
Running and Screaming
Give us a nominee or give us death. The Pennsylvania primary is here, and with it may come the end of our nightmarish nomination process. Kevin Guilfoile and John Warner on what’s truly making Americans bitter: politics.
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Reading
Book Digest: April 21, 2008
Having had reason to contemplate philosopher/titan Ludwig Wittgenstein, (see below) I thought I would lay out a few hors d’oeuvres of his thinking. From his so-called early phase: ...
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Gallery
I Am Tourist
Who are these tourists, where do they come from, and why do they foul up my morning commute? Anyone who’s lived in a big city knows the feeling of working in Disneyland, and anyone who’s visited one probably brought a camera.
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Announcements
What are we denying ourselves?
Next week we’ll be publishing our monthly installment of Of Recent Note; and just like last month, we’re inviting you to participate. Here’s this month’s assignment: “...
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Listening
Meet Classical Music
Usually, when I meet new people and they find out I host classical music on the radio, they ask one to three of the following questions: Do you talk really...
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Op-Ed
Two Minutes and 42 Seconds in Heaven
How many horn solos does it take to kill a perfect pop song? Applying science and taste to determine the exact best length—down to the second—for the platonic song.
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Reading
Book Digest: April 14, 2008
Susanna Moore (In the Cut and Big Girls) shares her current reading with you and me: I am reading Blood Meridian (by Cormac McCarthy) for the third time and as...
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Gallery
At a Crossroads
Kate T. Williamson chronicles life back in her hometown in Pennsylvania, running into old high school friends, going to a Hall & Oates concert with her mother, and trying to figure out what happens next.
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Watching
Video Digest: April 11, 2008
Well, hello! And welcome to the world of Ms. Brenda Dickson. You may know her from her tenure on The Young and the Restless, where she played Jill Foster Abbott...
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The Non-Expert
Identity Crisis
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we (or someone claiming to be us) detail many popular methods for stealing identities.
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Listening
The Great Angry White Hope, or the New Loud Sounds From Way Out
Right now there are thousands—nay, millions—of disaffected youths out there yearning for a music that speaks to the anger welling up inside—but without devolving into something that’...
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Devin Elijah
Lucien Samaha
Birthplace: Beirut, Lebanon You were instrumental in the launch of the first-ever digital camera while you were at Kodak. What’s the most significant effect? More people are taking more...
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Consoles I Have Known
Praystation
Discovering Chinatown’s black market for gaming, and risking your dating life and career for long nights of back-alley entertainment.
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Op-Ed
Following Function
While America’s urban poverty is a visible and often-addressed problem, the nation’s rural poor live a life apart. Examining one architecture program’s work to connect them with what they really need.
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Reading
Book Digest: April 7, 2008
As a literary journalist, I hang on to the notion that the universe of literature encompasses more than words and stories—think of the business of publishing, the cranks and...
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Gallery
Spit Rainbow
Alongside large, loud, clamoring installation and sculpture at the Whitney Biennial 2008 and the M.C.A. Chicago, Chicago-based photographer Melanie Schiff’s work is quietly and surprisingly magnetic.
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Watching
Video Digest: April 4, 2008
This year’s Olympic Games are scheduled to be held in Beijing, in the People’s Republic of China. Hello, controversy! The Chinese government, with its significant involvement in the...
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Profiles
Stomp and a Wink
The worlds of professional wrestling and contemporary fiction aren’t so far apart. Our writer immerses himself in the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling Federation, to the point of being flung across the ring.
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Listening
The April 2008 Leak Report
It’s genuinely hard for me to say which of this month’s album releases I’m most excited about. Well, I’m not really excited about any the following,...
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Birnbaum v.
Chip Kidd
The estimable Chip Kidd, designer of books’ fronts, backs, and spines, chats with our man in Boston about what it’s like to work on the words that come in between.
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In Hindsight
Campaign Relief
In March, politicians around the world were campaigning and citizens were wincing. And just like here at home, impropriety was as prevalent as democracy.