Tuesday,
November 10, 2009
In 1975, when the author was 6, the father he barely knew was shot in the head in a parking garage. More than 30 years later, Lazar tells the haunting story of this outwardly conventional accountant's secret criminal life—while painting an indelible portrait of the Space Age suburbs and an American dream built on fraud. Timothy Hodler
Evening's Empire by Zachary Lazar [Little, Brown, $25]
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Monday,
November 09, 2009
What can you say about a man who attempts to rob a car wash with a flashlight while wrapped in a
High School Musical blanket?
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Monday,
November 09, 2009
Now that we're used to the idea of culinary whizzes cooking in smallish towns like Portland, Maine, and powerful restaurateurs going the hot-dog route, talented chefs are attacking one of the last bastions of shitty food: layover dining.
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Monday,
November 09, 2009
Your straight buddies may be evolved and your girlfriend plenty chic, but even in this day and age, there are some questions that only a stylish gay man can answer.
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Monday,
November 09, 2009
One of the great things about being a famous person is that your fans will devour and worship your every utterance. Over the past few years this has fostered a glorious boomlet in Celebrity Poetry.
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Friday,
November 06, 2009
Even if you're not into the luscious photos of runway fashion and celebrities included in the 708-page book Prada released today celebrating its innovative history, you're still bound to appreciate cheeky features
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Friday,
November 06, 2009
Even if you're not a beardy music geek, you're probably managed to catch a few fascinating recently popularized song remakes.
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Friday,
November 06, 2009
It's Kurt Vonnegut meets
The Hangover; John Steinbeck meets
Milk. Check out our weekly posts from
the Slaughterhouse for highbrow insights that may just make some sense of some of our guiltiest pleasures.
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Friday,
November 06, 2009
Well, you did it. Congratulations. Another off-year election goes by with important local races and ballot initiatives and you let Grandma and her Buick full of spooked, backwater values voters determine your future.
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Friday,
November 06, 2009
The highs (and lows) of the coming week.
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