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Ten (More) Jazz Albums to Hear Before You Die

By Matthew Kassel and Alex W. Rodriguez Yesterday's much celebrated "Ten Jazz Albums to Hear Before You Die" post was a starter course, an easily digestible, rudimentary entry into the storied genre that not one person on the planet disagreed with. But today, we go further. Because for every Blue T ... More >>

Big Tex, Icon of Texas State Fair, Burns to the Ground

Burn, baby, burn Big Tex, the 52-foot-tall symbol of the Texas State Fair, smoldered, caught fire, and was finally engulfed in flames late last week at the fairgrounds in Dallas before firefighters could arrive and put it out. As the above video demonstrates, the process took only six minutes. The ... More >>

Fracking: Boom or Doom

America's hydraulic fracturing gold rush portends the greatest environmental disaster of a generation

The Shape of Docs to Come: Ornette: Made in America

Shirley Clarke's jazz classic broke ground still untraveled

Wild Horse, Wild Ride

Nine Fantastic And Thoughtful And Perfect In Every Way Gifts For The Music Fans In Your Life

​How many gift guides have you read that started off by reminding you that "the holiday season is fast approaching"? Probably too many by this point. If you're like me, you just get stressed out and close the tab before even realizing that some of them have awesome suggestions. Don't do that h ... More >>

Miniature Pony Gets Prosthetic Leg, Can Gallop Again

Here is your feel-good story of the day: It seems a miniature pony named Midnight had only a nub for a back leg. He was taken to a rescue in Ft. Worth, and was in critical condition at the youthful age of four. The folks at the rescue asked, of prosthetics, "If it can be done for humans, could it be ... More >>

Wall of Shame

CNN, USA Today, and other media organizations got fooled

Just in Time for Halloween, Artist Helen Altman Makes Skulls From Spices

​Fort Worth artist Helen Altman has combined spices and pulses (beans) with the spirit of Halloween to sculpt a series of nifty skulls, and can you imagine how much attention you'd get (from the birds, at least), swinging one of these in the West Village Halloween parade? The one made from mu ... More >>

Southwest Airlines Employee Finds Box of Human Heads on Plane; Is Probably Going to Need Some Therapy

​No, we are not kidding: A box reportedly filled with 40 to 60 human heads was discovered by an unwitting (and surely now nightmare-plagued) Southwest Airlines employee in Little Rock, Arkansas, last week. The problem with this is actually not with allowing human heads to fly -- presuming they ... More >>

New York Finally Named City with Worst Road Rage; Honking, "Obscene Gestures" Cited

For the past three years New York ceded first place to Miami, which shamed us all, but the fourth annual In the Driver's Seat AutoVantage Road Rage Survey results are in it looks like we're number one again -- as America's Road Rage Capital. Making victory sweeter, Miami slipped to seventh place, wi ... More >>

Diamonds Are Whatever: Clancy Martin's How to Sell

A former jeweler offers a gem of a debut novel

Cuomo's Pension Investigations Catch On in 30 States

The New York Times today examines the pension fund investigations that have spread since New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo (pictured) started digging into the scandals involving such funds in this state. The notion seems to be spreading that "placement agents" who intervene between fund manage ... More >>

Gourmet Mag Lists Best Oldies

Bill Wood's Better Commercial Pictures Took

Wood was no artist. That's what makes him interesting.

Stuck: Disgusting Dark Comedy

Fatal accident humor, from the Re-Animator guy

You Can't Compete With Babes

A few unkind words for us with regards to Pazz & Jop's patriarch

One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even These

Random obsessions and vexations, born of both young tyros and inexplicably still-rocking old people

Spanker's Delight

Booty whackers unleash their greatest hits

Meat and Greet

New Fort Worth joint raids the zoo for inspiration

Press Bitching

The Personals

Falling in love for different reasons

Tits Up, Chin Down

Talking with Crystal Kimmey, lesbian cowgirl

Peanuts, Popcorn

Carnie Life: Peanuts and Popcorn at Lincoln Center

Letters

G.I. Joke

A real-life Yossarian on the comic efficiency of a soldier's life in Iraq

Letters

Prisoner of War

Flashback to Abu Ghraib, where a soldier's day only feels like a year

Yoo-hoo, Osama!

Homeland Insecurity

The American empire goes for broke—and it could be heading that way

Reputations at Stake

Day by Day, Death by Death

A Chronology of U.S. Military Fatalities Since 'Mission Accomplished,' Part II

Peanuts, Popcorn

The Foreign Invasion of the American Game

Euro: New Currency of the NBA

George Bush, Failed Corporate Crook

Nitwit Scion Turns Avenger

NY Mirror

Karen Hughes Finds Her Ruby Slippers

Spy Planes and Bibles and Talibs, Oh My!

Legends of the Mall

'Waydowntown' Director Gary Burns Braves the Great Indoors

Case Clothed

Below the Radar

Inside Lockheed's $250 Billion Pentagon Connection

Friend or Fraud?

A Suspect Benefit Promoter Raises Fear and Loathing

Letters

Nation

Pat Jumps

Third Party Lock & Load

Nation

Tangible As An Ice-Cold Longneck

Socks in the Long Grass

Hillary Moves In

Pec'ing Ardor

Readers Pumped Up Over Pines Piece

Fumin' Emotions

Nation

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