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Moving Pictures
Yo, movie fans. This Must Be The Place is a site for you. ...
Why Your Supermarket Only Sells 5 Kinds Of Apples
Over at Mother Jones, here's Rowan Jacobsen's story about one man's quest to bring hundreds more back: ...
Speak Memory: The Clear Line
Tintin is a classic Belgian character–proper, tasteful, disciplined, droll and Catholic. As a kid, the Tintin comic books had an enormous impact on me. Though they were translated into English, Tintin never caught on in the States like he did elsewhere around the world. (Not until the recent movie.)...
And Now Peter Gammons Is Launching His Own Site
Enter Peter Gammons into the land of Simmons and King. Gammons is getting his own website—called Gammons Daily—and is launching, curiously, late in the season and basically out of nowhere. The site is supposed to be live sometime this week. ...
The Worst Moments Of Your Lives Keep Getting Worse
Welcome back to The Worst Moment of My Life, a regular feature in which readers share photos and videos of their most miserable life experiences. If you'd like to be a part, send yours to us at [email protected]....
This One Goes To Eleven
Slide on over to the Hollywood reporter and check out this excerpt from Michael Walker's new book What You Want Is in the Limo:...
The Best Of The Best
Glenn Stout, series editor of The Best American Sports Writing has posted the table of contents for this year's edition on his website. The book, edited by J.R. Moehringer, won't be out for a few months, but I want to take this moment to celebrate Moehringer's selections....
High-Powered Sprint Boat Careens Off Course, Crashes Into Spectators
Sprint Boat racing is a niche sport in which 1,000-horsepower engines propel tiny boats around what looks like a flooded go-kart track. If this sounds like a recipe for disaster, you're right—as spectators at Oregon's "Field Of Dreams" learned yesterday....
Visions Of Light: Movie Love
Here's Martin Scorsese writing about movies in the New York Review of Books:...
What The Hell Is Zlatan Ibrahimovic Wearing?
Apparently, it's some sort of tracking device. And the shorts are probably just rolled up a bit. Still, this photo is ridiculous:...
Jefferson Montero Scores One Of The Greatest Hat Tricks You'll See
Sure, someone at some point might have scored a better hat trick than this one, we guess, because odds. We just can't think of any....
And It Happens Every Day
Over at Narrative, dig David Thomson on The Long Goodbye—...
Big Momma
Here’s Richard Russo in the L.A. Times talking about his latest book, Elsewhere, a memoir about his relationship with his mother:...
Actually, Darrell Green Doesn't Want The Redskins To Change Their Name
On Tuesday, we wrote about how two Washington Redskins legends, Darrell Green and Art Monk, came forward to say the team name was offensive. And of course it's offensive. We know it's racist, and you know it's racist, and most importantly, owner Dan Snyder knows it's racist, because actual Native Am...
Because “Bitter Smell Of Vicious, Cynical Self-Loathing” Would’ve Been A Hard Sell
Here's my pal Emma Span:...
All Right, Boys, Silencio, This Is A Picture
The Independent was good enough to reprint Joan Didion's 1965 essay, "John Wayne: A Love Story:" ...
The Batter's Boxes At AT&T Park Are Seriously Screwed Up Tonight
How do you not notice this? How have they not been fixed!?...
Watch Florida State's Nick O'Leary Survive An Insane Motorcycle Crash
It is important to note this: Florida State tight end Nick O'Leary not only survived this horrific motorcycle crash this May, he walked away from it....