- No more drinks on your commute: The end of the storied bar car.
- Coming soon: more polarization!
- Kids don’t read because their parents don’t: “We’re surrounded by an implicit anti-book agenda, and still we wonder why kids don’t read books.“
- Steve Albini’s letter to Nirvana: “I have a nice 24-track studio in my house. Fugazi were just there, you can ask them how they rate it.”
- Kara Walker’s massive Marvelous Sugar Baby sculpture at the old Domino sugar factory.
- Your NASA photo of the week.
- Today’s baby, swaddled in gadgets.
- Morrissey to Crass to the Specials; some of the best hating Margaret Thatcher songs.
- Reading the rock and roll gospel of the great Lester Bangs.
- Print and read: Legos, IKEA, and the welfare state; the Scandinavian model for the future.
Chris Barsanti 