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The Long Good Friday
Nice post on The Long Good Friday over at the ever-incredible site Cinephilia and Beyond. ...
Illmatic's Dope Sports Reference
The Shaq Fu line from this record, produced by Large Professor....
Searching For Tom Lehrer
This is worth reading. Ben Smith on Tom Lehrer:...
Map: Over 200 Bars In NYC Worth Drinking At
The designers over at Pop Chart Lab have put together a sharp-looking, albeit somewhat arbitrary map of over 200 "distinguished" New York bars, broken down by category (click here for a larger version). If you have a lot of money and plan on living in the city for a couple years, you should check th...
Get It Together, Avril Lavigne
This is a tough one. Below, please find "Hello Kitty," the new video from Canadian pop superstar Avril Lavigne, who will turn 30 this year, a fact not abundantly in evidence given the ear-abasing nature of the track (Skrillex' Inferno, basically) and the society-abasing depiction of modern Japan as ...
Craig Sager Doesn't Want Gregg Popovich To Be Nice To Him
In a truly sweet moment, on Sunday, TNT sent Craig Sager Jr. out to do the on-court interviews in place of his father, who is undergoing chemotherapy treatment for leukemia. The usually gruff and taciturn Gregg Popovich went soft, wishing Craig Sr. the best and promising to be nice to him when he re...
Year of the Pigskin
Over at New Republic, check out Christopher Beam's story about playing football in China:...
Which Athlete Is Your State Most Obsessed With?
Over on the BestTicket blog, Andrew Powell-Morse has taken a look at the "most popular athlete" in each state, based on monthly Google queries over the last year. ...
In Place Of Ailing Dad, Craig Sager's Son Interviews Gregg Popovich
With NBA sideline reporter Craig Sager getting treatment for leukemia, his son Craig Sager, Jr. took on the task of interviewing the usually taciturn Gregg Popovich during today's Mavs-Spurs game. But this time, Pop took it easy. He even said more than 15 words!...
The Dickens of Detroit
Oh, goody. Over at Grantland, Michael Weinreb writes about Elmore's Detroit:...
Junkies Have A Thing For Neil Young
"Loss Prevention" a short story from Richard Lange's impressive collection Dead Boys. Here's how it begins:...
Nik Cohn On The Beatles
"If the Beatles meant a lot in England, they meant very much more in America," wrote Nik Cohnin his brisk, entertaining history of Rock n Roll, Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: Pop from the Beginning. "They changed everything. They happened at a time when American pop was bossed by trash, by dance crazes...
I'm <em>Bon Appétit</em>'s Adam Rapoport. Let's Talk About Masters Food.
Adam Rapoport is the editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit; before that, he was GQ's style editor, and before that he was the editor of the restaurant section at Time Out New York and worked as an editor and writer for the James Beard Foundation's Publications Office. He also happens to be a sports fan, a...
Chart: Do You Know Your Whiskey?
Whiskey is delicious and fun to drink, but it's tough to keep track of the diverse offerings and industry nomenclature. Pop Chart Lab has your back: Similar to what they did with beer, they've put together a great graphic on the taxonomy of whiskey. They even managed to nail the geographic details o...
Ava And Barbara: Two The Hard Way
Jeanine Basinger in the New York Review of Books:...
Pirates Fan Catches Foul Ball With Exploding Tub Of Popcorn
Here we have a Pittsburgh fan camping out underneath a foul ball off the bat of Cardinals second baseman Matt Carpenter, MacGyvering his tub of popcorn into a glove for an easier grab. I was really expecting (hoping) the ball to bust right through the bottom but it looks like it hits the side of th...