Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of November 3, 2019)
...hopes on delivery drones, which will dot city skylines by next summer "Nibbling and cribbling ...": Lunching alone at work the latest productivity hack? The in-flight meal hall of shame...
Party Time
...Whatever the system, time or place, any mandarin worth his seal cares about how time is segmented, marked, periodized, passed, and comprehended. Even so, Chinese time under communism is an...
The Art of Antarctic Cooking
...offers a fine example. An air of mystery surrounded him. No one knew his true name or age because he fraternized little, preferring the company of Toby, the expedition's pet...
Sunday Reading
...Appalachian Trail Faultlines, Black Holes, and Glaciers: Mapping Uncharted Territories “It is mid-day and almost time for the latest news from Radio Fresh FM in the rebel-held province of Idlib,...
Anne Boyer & Matias Viegener @ The Poetry Project 10/2
...A reading featuring: Anne Boyer | Works include Anne Boyer’s Good Apocalypse, The 2000?s, My Common Heart, The Romance of Happy Workers and more. Her latest work, A Form...
Fan Nonfiction
Heroic tales about video-game production mask how the hobby holds both its audience and performers captive
Staying on Their Toes
...Musicians pace to and fro, humming snatches of the latest sonata. Actors grimace and puff their chests and declare their love in stentorian tones. White and soft as cream puffs,...
Sunday Reading
...Novelists on Why They Write Empire Bakuba - "Kwasa Kwasa," Syllart Production Mother’s boys: conversations with the parents of Russia’s neo-Nazis Praying while Shi’a: the NYPD’s latest religious profiling scandal...
Pray for Chic
...heterogeneous body of work. The artist, 30, is a Bushwick-living autodidact who performs icon worship with the twisted élan of a latter-day Mary Magdalene. Her latest two person show with...
An assortment
...there can be an item on hair-care products "for dark skin," especially in a British context, a column promising "the latest beauty trends for black and Asian skin." Hair texture...
This Week in Art Crime
...travelling on the Oxenholme to Penrith train. The latest “sighting” comes from Cockermouth where Banksy is alleged to have popped into Wild Zucchinis restaurant on 19 January to admire the...
Scream Queens
...girl is his latest experiment. In his letter to Laemmle, Joy wrote, “Our feeling is that the screaming of the woman … is overstressed.” But it is not the woman’s...
Quantum Drift
...on a collaboration. He taught her to map algorithms in pretty geometric patterns, she helped organize the notes for his latest thought experiment, and they talked, ramblingly, for hours at...
Curb Your Moralia
...a revisionary project for the American sitcom that coincided with the rather colonial project of reality programming in the past decade of television. However, with these other comedies ending or...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of September 22, 2019)
...take up farming Medical students and residents circulate a petition condemning changes to nutritional assistance proposed by the Trump administration KFC begins test-marketing it's latest offering: a chicken-and-doughnut sandwich Swede...
Contemporary Scottish Friction
...Alasdair Gray Eden and After (1965-66) via Scottish National Gallery The coming Scottish independence vote has given new energy to the would-be national literary culture The crowd were...