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Trees

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Gabriel Mason

An LA classic by Gabriel Mason. Continue reading →

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The Worst People in America: Dept. of Wildlife Services

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Jana Martin

If we are in the midst of the sixth extinction, we can credit the Department of Wildlife Services for hastening our fate. Responsible for the deaths of some four million wild creatures a year, this government agency has been in business of “wildlife damage management” since 1895. Yet it flies under the radar, killing animals with impunity. Continue reading →

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Sunday Light and Word – Nothing was a Prize

Posted on June 21, 2015 by Hank Cherry

Searching the angles of chance Continue reading →

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Road Worthy: Reflections While Passing Through

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Austin Metze

It’s 8:30 in the morning. I’m sitting in McDonald’s on route 87 in Sloatsburg, NY.  When I was a child, whenever we passed here on the Thruway, my father would say that everyone in Sloatsburg had an extra digit on each hand. … Continue reading →

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Why Trigger Warnings are Futile and Infantilizing

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Litsa Dremousis

Designed to protect the traumatized from further trauma, trigger warnings fail in their mission because they place the burden of maintaining our equilibrium on others, as if they could ever truly protect us from additional psychic harm. Continue reading →

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Love & Mercy and the Saving of Brian Wilson

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Robert Burke Warren

Beach Boy Brian Wilson, musical genius and cultural icon, should have died, but did not. Someone saved him. Who, exactly, did the saving is up for debate. In any case, hot new biopic Love & Mercy, fleshes out the less-familiar trope of “saving the artist,” and our own Robert Burke Warren digs that. Continue reading →

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They Found Him in Vegas: The Guy Who Did It, the House Next Door

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Janet Steen

LET’S SAY IT’S 1987. The whole family is out in the backyard, Memorial Day weekend. Father, mother, sister, brother, brother’s pregnant wife, and me. The old grill has got burgers spitting grease over by the garage. Folding lawn chairs, citronella candles. … Continue reading →

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