December 2010
10 posts
How To Live in New York City →
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Move here when you’re 18 or 22, maybe even 24. Come from somewhere else-the north, south, west, Xanadu- and come to realize that everyone living in New York is a transplant. Even the ones who grew up on the Upper East Side end up moving into a place downtown, which, as you’ll soon discover, is like moving to a different city.
Discover the cruel and bizarre world of New York City...
The AV Club has my favorite top albums of the year list. They give real descriptions!
Arcade Fire The Suburbs Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler grew up in the suburbs of Houston, an archetype of U.S. cities designed around the automobile: a giant, sprawling mess of endless pavement, strip malls, and tacky prefab buildings that looked rundown before their time. The band nails the landscape on one...
Scientists are analyzing three bone fragments found on a deserted South Pacific island to see if they belong to Amelia Earhart. This may prove Earhart died as a castaway after crash landing, though researchers caution they could be turtle bones. Say what now?
In which a band of misidentified elitists empathetically comes to terms with their elitist hangups only to be sued for $2 million by a former luxury model-turned-teddy bear entrepreneur who currently lives behind gates in one of the most affluent areas of America. Contra is not for fighting, though. It’s for finding common spaces in a world desperately clinging to outmoded binaries: us...
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