The Drinks are On Us! and Us! and Us Too!

I got a text message a couple days ago.. would I be available Saturday night to play a judge in a one-act play based (very loosely) on local history? Sure, why not? Similar:William Zinsser: What Is Good Writing? (Clarity, Simplicity, Brevity, and Humanity.)Most of the students in my “News Writing…Culture"I don't view Shakespeare's work as…

Microphowned

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How Americans Die

Fantastic data visualization. How Americans Die. Similar:The Little Girl from the 1981 LEGO Ad is All Grown Up, and She’s Got Something to SayGreat article featuring the little girl …Business‘NPR Voice’ Has Taken Over the Airwaves  In literary circles, the practic…CultureThe daughter is in “Very Berry Dead,” a new play which opens this Friday and…

The Dadliest Decade

The eighties, at least, were drenched in cocaine and neon, slick cars and yacht parties, a real debauched reaction. But nineties white culture was all earnest yearning: the sorrow of Kurt Cobain and handwringing over selling out, crooning boy-bands and innocent pop starlets, the Contract With America and the Starr Report. It was all so…