Flak Radio: The Miracle Tour
Flak Staff
05/09/2008
Radio
The Electric Art Radio boys, Sam Osterhout and Geoff Herbach, call in from New York City to talk about Herbach's ongoing book tour. Plus: new music from The Last Shadow Puppets, the Flak Radio Roundup, and contributing writer Eric Nigg and his Niggtistics.
The Iron's Still Hot 
Charles Moss 05/08/2008 Opinion "Iron Man may never have been as well known as Spider-Man, Batman, or Superman, but comic books certainly wouldn't have been the same without him. And throughout his 40+ year history, he's represented everything America has stood for — the good, the bad and the ugly. With the release of the new Jon Favreau-directed film, it's a good time to ask: What role does Iron Man play in American popular culture in 2008?" |
On the Grid: Penguin Classics Enters the Gaming Age
Andrew Stout 05/07/2008 Web "The first decade of the 21st Century has been rocky for Penguin with distribution problems and the close of its in-house design department. Then, earlier this year, it was revealed that an autobiography by Margaret Seltzer published on Penguin's Riverhead imprint was a hoax. We Tell Stories is an attempt to regain the vision which came to the company's founder, Allen Lane, one afternoon in 1935 while idling at a train station: that quality literature be made accessible to anyone willing to explore it." |
Chop Shop
Patrick Burns 05/05/2008 Film "For Alejandro, the Queens Bridge is a towering diversion from the industrial wasteland below. But while on the bridge, Ale doesn't stop to look at the view of Manhattan — he goes there to stash his cash a hidden coffee tin. From the steep ledge, he and his best friend throw grocery carts onto a pile of trash below. Bleak as his life may be, he doesn't feel sorry for himself. And his character isn't looking to generate pathos." |
The Collections of Barbara Bloom
Abbey Nova 04/29/2008 Features "It dawns on the viewer very quickly that more is going on there than first meets the eye. 'Sometimes life is perfect' Bloom is quoted as saying in one of the wall cards and indeed there is an upbeat, playful quality to the entire exhibit. Bloom, the curator, is poking fun at the idea of a retrospective and the viewers are often left with the distinct impression that Bloom is poking fun at them, too." |
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Kevin Murphy on Arthur C. Clarke
One of the world's funniest sci-fi commentators ("Tom Servo" from Mystery Science Theater 3000) writes a brief, extremely lucid appreciation of one of sci-fi's greatest writers.
Texxon — We're Good Oil
Flak's own Aemilia Scott rips it up with some dead-on satire of "green" oil companies.
The Final Supressed Scene of The Wire
Slate unveils the hidden secret ending to the greatest series in the history of television.
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