Culture Club: End of the Year…
As a congratulatory present to all my graduating students from HHS, here’s my favorite picture of Alex Trebek, friend of CotP.
Music
-Sasha Frere-Jones on Sonic Youth and Anna Ternheim
-Two AV Club interviews with Animal Collective and Thomas Mars of Phoenix
Un-Music
-More from the AV Club: an interview with Mary-Louise Parker of Weeds
-Architects Journal lists its favorite architecture of the Star Wars franchise
-From the Atlantic: various writers chime in on 15 Ideas to Change the World and Garry Wills profiles William F. Buckley
-From Vanity Fair: Douglas Brinkley’s Johnny Depp profile, David Margolick on the Madoff sons and Evgenia Peretz on scandal at Miss Porter’s School
-Two links on new release Year One: Dana Stevens’ review and an interview with director Harold Ramis
-Two more New Yorker works: Jane Meyer on CIA director Leon Panetta and Kelefa Sanneh on Mathew B. Crawford’s alternative lifestyle
-I also really enjoyed three pieces that aren’t online this week, Jon Lee Anderson’s piece on exhuming casualty corpses from the Spanish Civil War, John Seabrook’s piece on David Kennedy’s work towards eliminating gang violence and Lauren Collins’ piece on romance novelist Nora Roberts, which she discussed on a New Yorker podcast
