Abraham Lincoln

Three Amazingly Titled Projects I Must Do Immediately

Paper mag's Mickey Boardman and I have come up with three can't-lose works that are so flawlessly titled they should immediately get mounted like dogs in heat. Here they are: *Guy and Dahl. A two-person show starring glam rocker Miss Guy and author Tessa Dahl. I don't even care what they do, I jus ... More >>

MIGHTY WORDS

Celebrating two 
american legends

Daniel Day-Lewis and Steven Spielberg Ably Fill Lincoln's Hat

A tall, tall film

The Emancipation Proclamation (Or What's Left of It) Is In Harlem Right Now!

In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln was torn: with the War Between the States raging, the clarion call to free the slaves was louder than ever. However, to do so, Lincoln feared a backlash from his own Union forces, who were more concentrated on the rebels then the abolitionists. In the end, the 16th ... More >>

Spielberg's Version Of Abe Lincoln Is Ready For A Peek

Steven Spielberg's upcoming movie about Abraham Lincoln doesn't make the President look like E.T., Jaws, or something out of Jurassic Park. In fact, it makes him look exactly like Daniel Day-Lewis, who's playing the part. With a hint of Walter Huston. Here's' a stirring image from the film, whic ... More >>

Edible Garden On Top Of North Square Restaurant

Talk about an extensive herb garden. Located on top of North Square Restaurant in the Washington Square Hotel, Jake's Edible Garden is an herb garden that has just sprouted and will be providing all the herbs for executive chef Yoel Cruz's dishes. The herbs, chilies, and tomatoes come from Oak Gro ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: May 9-15, 2012

Emancipation Day at 150: How Slaves in Washington D.C. Are Helping Procrastinating Taxpayers Today

Procrastinating taxpayers: wonder why you're getting a couple extra days to file your taxes this year? April 15 fell on a Sunday this year, so you can thank a Christian for the first extra day, as politicians are so terrified of offending them, they've never liked to do government business on Sunda ... More >>

The 20 Most Important LGBT Figures In History

Bayard Rustin​According to this assessment on bilerico.com, it's a mixed bunch through history. Authors, artists, politicians, civil rights leaders. Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Abe Lincoln... (On the floor with that last one? Well, sorry--I guess Abe freed his boyfriend's trouser snake.) ... More >>

This Man Witnessed Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

This is a TV appearance from 1956, by a 96-year-old man named Samuel Seymour: As a five-year-old boy, he saw John Wilkes Booth shoot Abraham Lincoln. Which happened in 1865. [Kottke] [@_rosiegray]

Robert Burnham Jr.'s 1983 Testament: An Astronomer-Recluse Inscribes His Universe (Part I)

Burnham, circa 1960, at the telescope Clyde Tombaugh used to find Pluto 30 years earlier​ Today, June 16, 2011, would have been Robert Burnham Jr.'s 80th birthday. Burnham was an Arizona astronomer who produced one of the most unusual, and most beloved, set of books of science, his Burnham's ... More >>

SPEAK UP

Inspiring words from Lincoln to Amway

Long May You Shoot--'After the Gold Rush' at the Met

A show of contemporary photos takes on our age's 'gilded toxicity'

The Conspirator: Another Dull History Lesson From Robert Redford

Malcolm X Had Gay Sex! He Joins A Historic Club!

​A new book about Malcolm X says the controversial civil rights leader had an early homosexual relationship with a white businessman, according to The New York Times. And he's not alone! Anyone with a kindle will learn of a whole bevy of historical figures who turn out to have been "that way ... More >>

Happy Presidents Day!

​Sure, it may not have the bombast of the 4th of July or the stoic dignity of MLK Day, but Presidents Day is a holiday worth celebrating. Hmm, "celebrating" is too strong a word. How about "observing?" No, that makes it sound almost religious, and it's far from that. Hey, some stores are havin ... More >>

Freedom Club Takes Aim

New Paradise Laboratories and the Riot Group try assassination

Free Will Astrology: September 15 through 21

Barack Obama Will Dish With The View Ladies as POTUS

​President Obama is about to make, um, history, by becoming the first U.S. President to appear on a daytime TV talk show -- something George Washington or Abraham Lincoln could never actually get away with, media being what it was in those days (also, they weren't exactly lookers). In the mode ... More >>

Counterfeit Money Lesson: You Get It, You're Screwed

​The L.A. Times talks to a guy today who ended up with $800 in counterfeit bills after cashing a money order at the Post Office. He tried to spend one of the eight $100 bills he had, and almost got arrested, before insisting that he was on the receiving end of that transaction previously, and ... More >>

The Riverton, Latest Collapsed New York Housing Icon, Auctioned for $120M

​Under the gaze of Moses, King Solomon, Hammurabi, and Abraham Lincoln (in a mural on the ceiling of the New York County Courthouse rotunda), the latest sad drama in the city's real estate bust played out this morning with minimal fanfare. Speaking slowly and deliberately, the auctioneer finis ... More >>

Abraham Lincoln Gets Screwed on His Birthday

​Today is Abraham Lincoln's birthday, which used to be a big deal. But since George Washington's birthday (February 22) was made a floating Monday holiday in 1971, Lincoln's birthday has gotten sort of smushed into it. The holiday is still officially Washington's Birthday, known as President ... More >>

Monty Burns wins mayoral write-in vote

​It turns out there's a constituency for selling Staten Island after all. If you spot him the votes for C Montgomery Burns, Charles Montgomery Bunrs and CM Burns, fictional billionaire Charles Montgomery Burns ran away with the write-in vote in last month's mayoral election with 27 votes (pdf) ... More >>

Bill T. Jones' Great Divide

The choreographer steps up to Lincoln and the Civil War

Yes, They Did

Lincoln's Birthday Celebrated with Cake, Thumbprint

Tomorrow is Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday, and to celebrate President Obama will attend a party in Springfield, Illinois. It's sold out, but free tickets are said to be available for "performances in Lincoln's honor," including local students reciting Lincoln's speeches, at the newly-reopened For ... More >>

POTTY MOUTHS

Stand back—they might pee on you

New Stamps: Old TV, Liberal Activist Judge, Poe, Others

The Post Office has announced its commemorative stamps for 2009. Alaskan and Hawaiian statehood are honored, which should please Sarah Palin and Barack Obama, and four stamps depict stages in the career of Abraham Lincoln on the bicentennial of his birth. Literature is represented by Edgar Allen Poe ... More >>

Regnery's Pro-Confederacy Book Enjoys Spectacularly Bad Timing

BLACK HUMOR

Judge this book by its cover

Thursday 05/01

EEE! HARMONY

A discussion with a notorious filmmaker

Name-Dropping Lincoln at the Obama Speech

'Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters'

Horoscope

Method Man

Greil Marcus follows lost highways in search of the American spirit

Would 'Honest Abe' Lincoln Have Accomplished More on Zoloft?

The Broken Constitution

More eyewitnesses to U.S. torture of detainees pierce the Bush administration's cover-up

Stump and Circumstance

Hillary Clinton barnstorms the 2005 graduations

Booked Solid This Weekend: Celebrating the Indie Spirit

Royal George as Honest Abe?

Bush's Handlers Put Him in a Lincoln

Rummy Is So Yummy

But Journos Too Nerdy for Manly Man List

Outing Abe

Also Adolf, Jesus, Eleanor, Robin Hood, and Other Historic Greats

The Choler of Money

Tall Tales

With Rivera in Lead, Unions Ditch Dems for 'Lincolnian' Gov

Agenda Item: Slave Reparations

Military Justice Is to Justice as Military Music Is to Music

Let's Fake a Deal

The City Game

New York’s Greatest High School Hoops Stars

Slave TV

Defending Pfeiffer Is the Most Offensive Sitcom of All