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The Battle Over the Sea-Monkey Fortune
A former 1960s bondage-film actress is waging legal combat with a toy company for ownership of her husband’s mail-order aquatic-pet empire. By Jack Hitt.
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Barbering for Freedom
Elias Rodriques on segregation, separatism, and the history of black barbershops.
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It’s All Devo
Gerald Casale
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We analyzed the names of almost every Chinese restaurant in America. This is what we learned...
A funny thing happened when reporter Jennifer 8. Lee showed the man who invented General Tso's Chicken what had become of his dish: He was appalled. "That's not right. This isn't authentic," he told her, an interaction she chronicled in her 2009 book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food. General Tso's Chicken might be the most popular Chinese dish in the western world...
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Twilight of the Superheroes
The increasing darkness of Superman, Batman, and their brethren are indicators of the American public’s anxiety. By Carmen Petaccio.
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Amidst of the Rubble of Bedrock City
The rise and fall of the Flintstone empire. By Amy McKeever.
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‘King of the Hill’: The Last Bipartisan TV Comedy
The Fox sitcom, which went off the air in 2010, managed to unite both liberal and conservative viewers by emphasizing its characters’ humanity in a changing world. By Bert Clere.
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Colonels of Truth
“In Corbin, according to Harland Sanders, ‘Bootleggin’s, fights, and shootin’s was as regular as a rooster’s crowing in the mornin’.’ Whether or not this excessive chicken noise informed Sanders’ future career is impossible to say, but Corbin is where he began his gradual transformation into the future famous food icon.” By Alan Bellows.
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I want my wings: The Last Tycoons
Andrew O’Hagan reviews “West of Eden: An American Place” by Jean Stein.
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Raunchy, Raucous Coney Island
Perhaps for Freud, Coney Island was America—a realm where fantasy was made material and the pleasure principle ruled. So it is with the bountiful exhibition “Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008,” at the Brooklyn Museum through March 13. By J. Hoberman.
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Relics of the Space Age
“Abandoned in Place,” a new book of photographs by Roland Miller, finds haunting beauty in derelict launch pads, rusting towers and other detritus of the American space race. By Kenneth Chang.
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Star Trek Continues, Episode 5
“Divided We Stand”
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Glory Halleluja
Odetta
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When the Messiah Came to America, She Was a Woman
On the rise and fall of American utopia. By Chris Jennings.
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How 43 Giant, Crumbling Presidential Heads Ended Up in a Virginia Field
After an ambitious monument went bust, big dreams—and big heads—remain. By Jennifer Billock.
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How photography – and phrenology – helped make Abraham Lincoln president
“Political commentators have focused rightly on how ideology divides US politics, but the story of Lincoln’s face reminds us of technology’s unique capacity to change what we expect from our leaders.” By Joanna Cohen.
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NSFW Arise!
The Church of the SubGenius recruitment video from 1989, revised in 2004.
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America’s Secret Societies: A New Book Probes Their Art and Mysteries
What is more titillating — knowing that someone is guarding a delicious secret you might never be invited to share, or being charged with protecting some precious confidence of your own? By Edward M. Gómez.
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That Old Black Magic
Johnny Mercer preferred to write lyrics while supine, eyes closed, “as if he could dream songs into existence.” By John Lingan.
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White Trash Gothic
When I learned that Harper Lee’s second novel is to be published, the first thought that came to my mind was: Will it be as biased against the white poor as To Kill a Mockingbird? By Michael Lind. (Feb. ’15)
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