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• Prescription for Upheaval

  The interesting music revolt isn’t happening on the FM dial anymore. Case in point: Ted Leo. His sound mixes punk and pop, with hard-charging songs of an unambiguously political sort.
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  • 012: New School
  • Date: Aug 27 2008
  • Contributors: Lindsay Ballant

• Section 3, Pew 16

  GOOD and Heavy Meta look at attendance at megachurches and football games in five states.
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  • 012: New School
  • Date: Aug 12 2008
  • Contributors: GOOD magazine

• Lords of the Rings

  A look at some of the events of the XXIX Summer Olympiad and the countries that love them. An original GOOD Video.
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  • 012: New School
  • Date: Aug 09 2008
  • Contributors: Dorian Orange, Morgan Currie, Lindsay Utz, MacKenzie Fegan, Michael Schaubach, Rus Garofalo, Danielle Flug, Jason Jude Chan, and Merka

• Let Them Eat Cake (And Other Flippant Remarks Of The Upper Crust)

  In a time where our Republican candidate elect fumbles with the press on how many multi-million dollar homes he owns, Christopher Hitchens introduces some shamefully relevant vocabulary: a tumbrel remark (a phrase originally coined by Irish writer Joyce Cary) is "an unguarded comment by an uncontrollably rich person, of such crass insensitivity that it makes the workers and peasants think of lampposts and guillotines." Keep an ear out. Via kottke Image: The Duke of Devonshire, who said of the London Times after it had published some criticism of him, that he would no longer have the newspaper "in any of my houses."
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  • Date: Sep 05 2008
  • Posted by alexandra_m

• Wish You Were Here!

  As summer comes to a close, we find ourselves politely enduring stacks of other people's vacation photos. Or, what's the word for "stack of photos" if it's being thumbed through on an iPhone? Either way. These are refreshing: Images from an architectural history professor who toured through the catacombs below a little Baroque church Oratorio di San Lorenzo in Palermo, also known as The Museum of the Dead. The author's descryption: "Like the sanatorium in The Magic Mountain, this is one of those places where every casual visitor ends up a patient at the moment when the nervous joking stops and the infection sets in." Would that make a great postcard or what.
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  • Date: Sep 03 2008
  • Posted by alexandra_m

• FYI: Silver Jews

  Good news. Nashville-based band Silver Jews has just commenced a national tour. While this is only their second tour ever, they've been around the block; they've released six full-length albums in the past two decades including the seminal American Water, a Pitchfork 9.9. (Trivia: On-again-off-again collaborator and Silver Jews founding member Steve Malkmus went on to start a little band called Pavement.) And indie rock aside, Berman is a poet of note. His book, Actual Air, published in 1999 and lauded by the likes of James Tate and Billy Collins, is a maddeningly eloquent exploration of the ins and outs of existence, and in the past decade, it hasn't strayed far from the most accessible spot on our bookshelves. In a recent backstage chat, he told us we could look forward to an upcoming book of drawings, The Portable February, to be released next spring, and possibly a screenplay commissioned by his pal Harmony Korine (Kids, Gummo). We highly recommend you sample some of Berman's poetry here while you enjoy this mp3: "Suffering Jukebox" Photo David Berman at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland, Ohio; by Alex
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  • Date: Sep 02 2008
  • Posted by alexandra_m

• Week Two and Maps

  A number of the people involved in the planning of this program (and some of the people it has produced) call themselves geographers, which I first thought was strange. The word geography makes me think about elementary schools and colorful maps and memorizing things (some of which I don't entirely remember.) But I am getting so into maps here. Because studying geography is another way (like history) of studying people and what we do and how we do it and when it might get better or worse. It is good exploring a new city, and on Saturday we leave for Altar where most migrants coming up from Mexico and Central America pass through to find a coyote (a guide). We'll start our border-mapping project there. We will work in groups and create a map (this can mean something very different than what we usually think of when we think of maps) of Altar. We have to incorporate information that we collect while talking to people in the main plaza. We'll do a similar thing in Tucson and again, twice, in Nogales. And through all that we're supposed to work toward making a map of the border. But maps can tell all sorts of stories, political histories and personal ones. This is an intensely political and intensely personal place to be.
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  • Date: Sep 03 2008
  • Posted by penina

• Hmm...

  Fantasy is reality in the world today... do owner-fans get dividends if the team turns a profit?
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  • Date: Aug 21 2008
  • Posted by Bert

• Yves Ravey

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  • Date: Aug 25 2008
  • Posted by M-Raymond-Cunningham