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Adoring Dora

In April 2009 one of the world’s biggest celebrities performed at Radio City Music Hall for thousands of screaming and adoring fans. But she wasn’t glitz and glam like you might expect.


Backward to the Future

All this has happened before. All this will happen again.


The New Undead

“Zombie Pet is kind of cute, if it wasn’t for all the flesh eating.”


Things That Make You Go Zoom

Congratulations, you are a clever young consumer and you’ve decided to buy your first car. Lucky for you, there’s a new way to buy that differs from the antique customs of your parents.


B. Martin Pedersen Interview

Marty Pedersen isn’t stopping. The 74-year-old owner and creative director of Graphis Inc. has been publishing great design since he took the helm in 1986, and he has no plans of slowing down.


The Marriages of Hettie Jones

Poet, author, and former beatnik Hettie Jones exalts the past but she doesn’t cling to it.


New Broadway, I’ll Be There Ere Long

Give my regards to Broadway. As the song says, I should next be remembered to Herald Square. But instead I think I’ll just stroll on down to it.


Disneyfication of Peter Max

Carl Jung believed that art provides insight to the subconscious. But his brand of psycho and art therapy assumes that there is depth and discovery to the subconscious in question.


72oz of Peter Saul

Back in 1999, four lanky young men went on bizarre road trip that culminated at the dingy Big Texan Steak Ranch, seated at a red checkered table on a stumpy wooden stage.


Ready Betty?

Betty had me from “hello.” A brilliant red manual transmission Audi TT Coupe Quattro with a distinctive aerodynamic exterior that would soon make my neighbors jealous. We had a little conversation, Betty and I, the day we met. She wanted to be mine.
As the proud owner of a TT, I had to significantly modify my [...]


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