The Japanese Pop Album Alyssa Milano Made As A Teenager

by Mike Barthel

The Grim American History Of ‘The Bicentennial Minute’

by Sarah Marshall

No Wonder You Smoke So Much: Your Parents Are Divorced!

“Both daughters and sons from divorced families are significantly more likely to initiate smoking in comparison to their peers from intact families, shows a new analysis of 19,000 Americans. Men who experienced parental divorce before…

A Poem By David Groff

by Mark Bibbins, Editor

Fire Island Song

It would be nice if you weren’t dead,
 you with your hair and skin flame-red
 and your way of getting me in bed.
 It would be nice if you weren’t dead.

What Kind Of God Is The God Particle?

“The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, said that what they found last year was, indeed, a version of what is popularly referred to as the ‘God particle.’ Joe Incandela, who heads one of the two main teams at CERN that each involve several…

Here’s a Comedy Sketch Called “CPAC 2013”

Richard Hell, Thom Yorke, Renee Fleming

Clive Burr, 1957–2013

Two Men 80

What unites Michael Caine and Quincy Jones? Apart from the possibility that they were both involved in the same movie in one capacity or another, which is a pretty good bet given that they have each had a hand in about a thousand films, they both turn 80 today. Also, Quincy Jones’ middle name is Delight…

The Way It Should Be

“I grew up in the days when blue meant Salt & Vinegar and green meant Cheese & Onion, so I am as frustrated as anybody by the confusing crisp shelves. We’ve seen more and more customers bringing up their own frustrations about crisp packet colours in the past few months, from letters to…

New York City, March 13, 2013

★★★★ Down below the windows, up in the treetops, a worker rode a cherry-picker basket through the treetops…