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- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
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Category Archives: The Arts
The 50 Dorkiest Songs You Secretly Love
For once, internet-fostered shamelessness is a good thing, with “The Top 50 Dorkiest Songs You Secretly Love.” Weeklings music editor Robert Burke Warren boldly goes where we’ve all gone before – into the realm of uncool, guilty pleasures; rock, pop, soul, rap, and, of course, disco all get their dork due. You know you love it. Continue reading
Posted in 50 Greatest, Cinema, Monday Rock City, Music, Popped Culture, Popular Culture, Science, Sex, Soul Seduction, The Arts, The Weeklings, Uncategorized
Tagged anchorman, bertha butt boogie, bettencourt, bridesmaids, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, don't stop believin', dork, dork-alicious, dorkgasm, dorkitude, dorky, edison lighthouse, extreme, gangnam style, gary cherrone, hanson, Jimmy Fallon, Journey, kelly keagy, love grows where my rosemary goes, mmmbop, mr. roboto, nuno, paul mccartney and wings, paul rudd, paul thomas anderson, psy, Queen, robert burke warren, shiny happy people, sister christian, starland vocal band, styx, supertramp, will ferrell, wilson phillips
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The Other Side: The Rainbow Reader Part VI
Part VI of Tessa Laird’s social history of color examines violet, pansies and death. Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged ayahuasca, Dennis McKenna, Gravity's Rainbow, Max Nordau, Robert Mapplethorpe, Terence McKenna, violet, Yukio Mishima
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The Girls, Their TVs and The Monkees
Hey, hey, it’s the Monkees, still stealing hearts and wowing audiences after almost a half-century. Writer-DJ Amanda Nazario checks out the band – and the intense fandom – at the Borgota Casino, and leads us into her unwavering, soul-deep crush on one of the best pop groups ever. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, The Arts, The Weeklings, Uncategorized
Tagged Amanda Nazario, borgota, Davy Jones, don kirschner, Head, JAck Nicholson, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, nick at nite, Peter Tork, Raefelson, The Monkees
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Deadly Symbiosis: Attachment and Loss in August: Osage County
In a candid analysis of Tracy Letts’s play August: Osage County, Andrew Rose discusses family, child abuse, and its haunting residue. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, The Arts
Tagged August: Osage County, child abuse, Mental illness, Tracy Letts
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Cops and Commercials: The Rainbow Reader Part V
Part V of Tessa Laird’s 6-part series on the social history of color examines blue, the color of cops, commercials, peacocks, drugs and the jungle. Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged A Rainbow Reader, ayahuasca, D.H. Lawrence, Derek Jarman, Isaac Newton, Terence McKenna, Tessa Laird, William Burroughs, William Gass
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They Sing in Ancient Green, The Rainbow Reader Part IV
Part IV of Tessa Laird’s 6-part series on the social history of color examines green, the color of love, not to mention environmentalism. Continue reading
Canary-Colored Runway into the Sun, The Rainbow Reader Part III
Part III of Tessa Laird’s 6-part series on the social history of color examines yellow from Van Gogh to Kandinsky, suicide and sunshine. Continue reading
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Tagged A Rainbow Reader, Alexander Theroux, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Rainbow Reader, Tessa Laird, Van Gogh, yellow
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