5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1773+ words) Amelia McAlpin, left, and Marcia Biederman are seen during Biederman's visit to Ketchikan in 2022, when Sayers "Mike" McAlpin, Amelia's husband and a grandson of Agnes McAlpin, was still living. Image courtesy of Marcia Biederman An image of the postcard that…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (405+ words) Literary Hub This Week in Literary History: William S. Burroughs Kills Joan Vollmer in a Drunken Game of “William Tell” The Most Notorious Party “Game” in Literary History On the afternoon of September 6, 1951, in a friend’s Mexico City apartment, a drunk…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (623+ words) One of the perceived weaknesses of the album is actually its greatest strength, and that’s the fact that the amorphous nature of the album means you never know what might be around the corner. It does just feel a bit…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (426+ words) TheCollector What Made Robert Mapplethorpe Revolutionary? Robert Mapplethorpe: The Emergence of an Artist Shortly after dropping out of college, Robert met Patti Smith. This iconic personality in the punk rock scene first came to New York with dreams of being…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (162+ words) Jacques Lipchitz (August 22, 1891 – May 26, 1973) was a Lithuanian-born French-American Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were muted, dominated by a synthetic style of Crystal Cubism. [Wikipedia]…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (443+ words) Acta Infernalis Silence is no longer an option for Dark Funeral. Active since 1993 and with seven studio albums to their credit, the band composed of guitarists Lord Ahriman and Chaq Mol, vocalist Heljarmadr, bassist Adra-Melek, and drummer Jalomaah is gearing…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (362+ words) When Armageddon comes and an attempt to rehab Freud ‘Biological War: A Scenario’ by Annie JacobsonAnnie Jacobsen’s new best seller “moves like a meteor,” said Dwight Garner in The New York Times The investigative reporter who…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (384+ words) Acta Infernalis Titled Disembowelment Ritual, it took T. Petrocelly (guitar/bass, Construct of Lethe, Near Death Condition) and D. Schmidt (drums/vocals, ex-Construct of Lethe) a year to complete. The album opens with the menacing sound of Faustbötler, an introductory track that,…...

4+ week, 14+ hour ago   (484+ words) The Seoul Metropolitan Ballet celebrated its second anniversary with a double bill, "Death and the Maiden," which ran Friday to Sunday at the National Theater o...