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  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    Good Luck Using Wikipedia Today, Kermit La Grenouille

    ​Good luck using Wikipedia today. The user-generated, free-to-use, ad-free encyclopedia's English language portal will be dark for all of January 18th, as Wikipedia protests SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (the Protect IP Act). As Wikipedia says on their site today if you want to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    I Went To Michael Bolton's House In Connecticut For A Cocktail Party

    Our host, in his element​Look, when you get an email with that offer, you say yes. It's just a fact. And thus do I find myself on a bus yesterday evening with 20-odd publicists, journalists (OK!, In Style, Vibe, Entertainment Weekly, etc.), and TV/radio people, a merciful lack of ironical "LOL ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    LL Cool J, satanist: Studies in Crap presents Dancing With Demons

    Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.​ Dancing With Demons: The Music's Real Master Author: Jeff Godwin Date: 1988 ... More >>

  • Columns

    January 22, 2008

    Free Will Astrology

    Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.​ Dancing With Demons: The Music's Real Master Author: Jeff Godwin Date: 1988 ... More >>

  • Art

    January 3, 2006

    Mondo Wikipedia

    Community and controversy as the online reference giant turns five

  • Screens

    December 20, 2005

    Factually Speaking

    Think Wikipedia is error-ridden? Britannica's nearly as bad—and isn't nearly as nimble.

  • VLS

    November 1, 2005

    You've Got Wail

    Think Wikipedia is error-ridden? Britannica's nearly as bad—and isn't nearly as nimble.

  • Books

    June 28, 2005

    Eco and the Funnymen

    Novelist Umberto Eco talks about Homer, the Internet, comic books—and ladies' shoes

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2005

    Morning Report 6/24/05
    Rove Cleans Up

    Novelist Umberto Eco talks about Homer, the Internet, comic books—and ladies' shoes

  • Music

    June 7, 2005

    High Fidelity

    From A to B and back again: this is your correspondent, running out of mix tapes

  • Art

    April 5, 2005

    It's Alive!

    The adventures of Ilan Stavans, radical lexicographer and Spanglish champion

  • News

    October 5, 2004

    Moderate Rock

    Enough with the news anchors running the debates—it's time to give Oprah a turn

  • Film

    September 9, 2003

    Found in Translation

    Talking Pictures and Silent Valentines Leave Human Stains at the Venice Film Festival

  • Art

    August 6, 2002

    The Burning of Bleak College

    Talking Pictures and Silent Valentines Leave Human Stains at the Venice Film Festival

  • Specials

    July 6, 1999

    Letters

    Talking Pictures and Silent Valentines Leave Human Stains at the Venice Film Festival

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