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Edub9 International Arts · 10h ago

Gallery: Dentyne’s The Rules of Attraction

Last week, we teamed up with Dentyne and Howaboutwe to host The Rules of Attraction at downtown hotspot Above Allen at the Thompson LES. Flavorpill singles mingled, with help from tunes by the Adventure[s] crew and professional wingmen and women (really)
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Edub9 International Arts · 11h ago

Selected Strange and Unintended Consequences of Pop Culture Trends

As writers of television, films, and books tend to find out, you can’t control what people do with the stories you create. Once you release them to the general public, fans tend to grab hold of aspects of your work that you least expected, cruising right past the message to embrace, say, the cool ga
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Edub9 International Arts · 11h ago

Surreal Photos That Capture the Magical Awkwardness of Teenage Girls’ Lives

Like slightly older Alices falling down an invisible rabbit hole, the teenage girls in Julia Fullerton-Batten’s In Between series are captured in midair. In Teenage Stories , it’s The Attack of the 50 Foot Schoolgirls , with giant, bathing suit-clad pubescent girls striding through suburbia and step
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Edub9 International Arts · 12h ago

Awesome Infographics: YA Cover Art Trends in 2011

We recently came across Uncovering YA Covers , an amazing series of infographics drawn up by YA author  Kate Hart  about the trends in YA cover art in 2011, and we have to admit, we were discouraged but not unsurprised at some of the things she found. Looking at The Elevensies  and the  Goodreads li
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Edub9 International Arts · 13h ago

A Casual Voyeur’s Mini-Tour of Paris Through Art

There are reasons we fall in love with cities. Those who are luck enough to experience them firsthand get wrapped up in the sights, the smells, the sensations, or whatnot
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Edub9 International Arts · 13h ago

The Most Ingenious Re-Casting Decisions in Movie History

Men in Black III will roll into your local cineplex tomorrow ( or tonight, probably ), and while it is a film with some problems, there’s one element of it we can wholeheartedly endorse: Josh Brolin’s performance as young “Agent K,” the character played by Tommy Lee Jones in the first two MIB pictur
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Edub9 International Arts · 14h ago

Watch Andy Warhol’s “Screen Test” of Bob Dylan

Today is Bob Dylan’s 71st birthday, and in honor of the momentous occasion, we’ve decided to share a delightful piece of pop culture history with you: footage of the newly-famous musician that Andy Warhol shot back in the mid-60s as part of his Screen Tests series of short, silent films.
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Edub9 International Arts · 14h ago

10 Epidemically Overrated Books

Last week, we read a fun article over at PWxyz entitled “We Fix the Top 100 Novels List,” wherein the Publisher’s Weekly staff sounded off on which novels they’d add to the Modern Library’s ubiquitous Top 100 — and which they’d take away. The article got us thinking about which novels we think are l
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Edub9 International Arts · 15h ago

Revealing Diptychs of People and Their “Dreamlands”

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? And do you think that someone could wager an accurate guess, just by looking at your photo? Dreamland , a series of diptychs by Italian photographer Francesca Guadagnini which we spotted thanks to PetaPixel , pairs portraits of her friends
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Edub9 International Arts · 15h ago

The 1980s’ Most Gloriously Absurd Song Lyrics

As we mentioned earlier this week in our regular streaming album roundup , we have something of a soft spot for 1980s rockers The Cult, mainly because they were so absurd that it was somewhat endearing, from Ian Astbury’s curious Native American obsession through Billy Duffy’s haircuts to writing so
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