And there appeared a great wonder in heaven *** L ittle Richard has always been attuned to signs. At the height of his fame, on tour in Australia in October 1957, he saw a big ball of fire in the sky
A recent This American Life episode, “ Poetry of Propaganda ,” describes a San Francisco after-school program that produced an original musical starring young children. “I don't know what I expected,”
The Red Crayola live, 1967. Mayo Thompson, Frederick Barthelme, and Steve Cunningham. Photo by Dr. James Cunningham. Courtesy of Drag City. At one hurricane season shy of fifty years and running, ther
THINGS I WONDER (2:12) Thirty years later, the Shaggs may yet make it big, with the rerelease of their homespun album, “Philosophy of the World.” Illustration by Jaime Hernandez Depending on whom you
4 min read · Dec 15, 2015 -- I was walking down the street the other day, feeling pretty good. This can be a rarity for me. I was thinking about the climate change deal. I had written off any chance o
The fully public Savonnerie Heymans social housing project in Brussels, Belgium, features a “mini-forest,” game library, parks, playgrounds, and a promenade. (MDW Architecture / Filip Dujardin) Let’s
William Doyle, fka East India Youth, uses his pack of oblique strategies cards to come to terms with Another Green World as it turns 45 this year Despite the fact that Another Green World was released
Loren Yu was on a weekend trip in Los Angeles when he received an urgent email from a friend. The friend, Kalvin Wang, had a proposition. "If your response isn’t ‘no way,’ then we should talk ASAP, li
When Daniel Lopatin set out to record his latest album as Oneohtrix Point Never , he set up shop in an underground studio, completely sealed away from light and fresh air. It was almost like a Cold Wa
Erowid seeks to be a reference for everyone from the village stoner to the drug czar. Photograph by Andrew B. Myers for The New Yorker / Hand Lettering by Mousecake You can’t tell a great deal about t
“Submission” has been called anti-Islam, but France is the real object of its scorn. Photograph by François Berthier / Contour by Getty The French writer Michel Houellebecq has become a literary “case
Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Reviewed: Those Who Write for Immortality: Romantic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting Fame by H.J. Jackson Yale University Press, 29
Songs in the Key of Zzz: The History of Sleep Music Philip Sherburne chronicles the ways in which artists have tried to guide our dreamy unconsciousness over the years—through sleep concerts, soothing playlists, and white noise—and explains why passing out is the new staying up all night. by…
“The stage was set. And we turned up. And the people said, 'yes.' And then it just exploded.” Twenty years after Britpop, Noel Gallagher is still our most outspoken rock star. Exclusively for Esquire
The world, without any kind of psychedelic interjection, insists on repressing its strangeness so that it can maintain its clean self-image. The world is very vain: obsessed with symmetry, success, the utility of effective things. It is, in my opinion, an unsympathetic world we live in — sometimes…
Sniffing a fetid odor, George Bell's neighbor called 911. Credit... Josh Haner/The New York Times The Lonely Death of George Bell Each year around 50,000 people die in New York, some alone and unseen.
A Culture of Nagging Helps California Save Water J.S. Gilbert at his home in South San Francisco, where he installed a low-flow toilet after a friend repeatedly told him that he needed to replace his
Why Can’t We Stop Talking About New York in the Late 1970s? See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. The late 1970s were some of the darkest, bleakest years in Ne
Steve Ashby, who teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University, recently asked me four questions about listening. Ashby is posing these same four questions to a variety of people. The questions are all
Urban areas are defined globally as continuously "built up" land within a labor market. They are typically larger than cities but smaller than metropolitan areas. L AST month, in response to the news that Detroit's white population is now growing for the first time in decades , with the number of…
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Illustration by Patrick Morgan To appreciate the beleaguered position that Kenneth Goldsmith finds himself in, you have to know that in 1997 or 1998 three avant-garde poets, one of them Goldsmith, dri
The show’s foreground is jaunty, but its background hints at a ruined world. Illustration by Pendleton Ward The animated series “Adventure Time,” now entering its sixth season on Cartoon Network, is t
Soda fountains, rest stops, barber shops, motels: Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s California travel journals , 1961. A drawing by Ferlinghetti. TIRED OF THE FOG AND COLD? COME TO CALIFORNIA’S RIVIERA — Sailin
Opinion Big Tech Has Become Way Too Powerful Credit... Javier Jaén Berkeley, Calif. — CONSERVATIVES and liberals interminably debate the merits of “the free market” versus “the government.” Which one
At a time when robots crowd factory lines, algorithms steer cars and smart screens litter the checkout aisles, automation is the new spectre. The robots, they say, are coming for our jobs. Let them, r
Q. I'm struggling a bit with my 5-year-old speaking in a way that pushes my buttons. It's that sassy, sing-songy with a strongly grumpy undertone way of speaking. Think “hands on hips.” If you think y
“I’m very comfortable with the word ‘revolution,’ ” Figueres said. Illustration by Ben Wiseman The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or U.N.F.C.C.C., has by now been ratified by a
I’ve long believed that speed is the ultimate weapon in business. All else being equal, the fastest company in any market will win. Speed is a defining characteristic—if not the defining characteristi
The earliest record of coffee drinking as we know it comes from Yemen, near the end of the fifteenth century, when the beverage was popular among Sufi mystics. It pleases some historians to imagine that the Sufis began making the beverage when they learned about tea during a visit from Chinese…
Bob Ludwig, who does not post to the group directly, sent me this over the email, which answers my questions in very reassuringly: Dear Samuel, After all these years on the net I’m still ignorant how
"Look after the land, the land will look after you" It was a startlingly simple notion put forth by Tumanako Wereta, Chairman of the Tuaropaki Trust, that summed up the day’s discussions in a nutshell. Day 1 of New Frontiers examined the challenges and opportunities for the agricultural sector in…
VICE SPOTLIGHT: MR MEATY BOY The alternative techno DJ talks Aotearoa’s underlying darkness and how it drives artists to create and make change. 7.27.23 Music The Story Behind 'Los del Espacio' At the
First Words The Rabbit-Hole of ‘Relevant’ Credit... Illustration by Javier Jaén When a law has a name like “Patriot” or “Freedom,” it’s a sign that you should read the fine print. Somewhere down there
H istorians may look to 2015 as the year when shit really started hitting the fan. Some snapshots: In just the past few months, record-setting heat waves in Pakistan and India each killed more than 1,
The uninhabited island was named for a marooned eighteenth-century adventurer who likely inspired the first English novel. I thought I’d strand myself there and read it. Illustration by ZOHAR LAZAR In
Jason Segel as DFW in The End of the Tour. Photo: Courtesy of A24 Films Nobody owns David Foster Wallace anymore. In the seven years since his suicide , he’s slipped out of the hands of those who knew
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