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THE EYEBALL, The Rumpus DVD Column: #24 Nicolas Roeg’s First Five Films

Years ago I happened upon a series of arresting images on cable. There was a young Mick Jagger cavorting in a bath tub with two svelte beauties. A child wearing a fake mustache. A still image of Jorge...

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The New York Comics Symposium: Interview with R. Sikoryak & Kriota Willberg

The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Monday nights at 7-9pm EST in New York City....

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The Rumpus Interview with John Hodgman

John Hodgman spent much of 2011 and 2012 detailing the end of the world, a multi-platform piece of conceptual comedy that left him, at the start of 2013, with fewer apologies to make than more earnest...

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Swinging Modern Sounds #52: Chris Abrahams Riffs

There are not so many great bands anymore, not like there once were. The other day, I was on an airplane, scrolling through the music available on their entertainment console, and it was funny how few...

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The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium: Interview with Keren Katz

The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Tuesday nights from 7 to 9 PM EST in New...

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Stage Diving and Snap Decisions with Beth Lisick

Back in December we interviewed the talented author, performer, and storyteller Beth Lisick. Read her new interview in Poets & Writers about the art of giving a reading. Here’s what she has to say...

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Applause, Applause

Is there, perhaps, something in your life which begs applause? Or maybe you want to help break a world record, or affirm strangers, or do you just like clapping? Rumpus contributor Dustin Luke Nelson...

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The Sad Girls’ Triumph

Emily Gaynor writes for Weird Sister on the performative aesthetic of Internet “sad girls,” who use their work to explore the boundaries  of acceptable/unacceptable public displays of emotion for...

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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Karrie Higgins

I was completely blown away when I first read Karrie Higgins’s essay, “Strange Flowers,” which was recently listed as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2015. “Strange Flowers” merges various...

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“Performing” Toxic Masculinity

Genevieve Valentine explores the performance of toxic masculinity for Strange Horizons. Valentine uses the horror movie The Guest to deconstruct both the camp and the too-real danger of toxic...

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This Week in Posivibes: Sir Elton John

In a demonstration of why he embodies the very essence of posivibes, Sir Elton John gave a surprise concert for London commuters in the city’s St. Pancras Station. The performance marked the release of...

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The Weeknd Performs with Lauryn Hill

The Weeknd and Ms. Lauryn Hill performed together on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, joining up to sing “In the Night” from The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness, Vulture reports. Watch the...

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Rock Show at the Sistine Chapel

It happened—we’ve entered a new dimension: there has been a rock concert at the Sistine Chapel. It was the Edge, it was a benefit, and Leonard Cohen was covered, Stereogum reports. Watch a clip of the...

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Drake Returns to SNL

The artist delivered a plea that he is “more than a meme” during his host’s monologue on SNL this week before performing “Once Dance” and “Hype.” Catch all of the videos via okayplayer.Related...

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Joanna Newsom on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Joanna Newsom performed “Sapokanikan” and “Anecdotes” from her recent album Divers on Jimmy Kimmel this weekend, Stereogum reports, playing the former on the show itself and the latter as a web...

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Remembering the Boxing Poet

He flipped similes and metaphors like a battle rapper holding court in a cipher that was his and his alone. Even his jabs were like couplets that told you more about yourself than you could have ever...

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FKA twigs at Pitchfork Music Festival

Although the performance was over a month ago, a gorgeous video of FKA twigs’s set at the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago was recently released online. The artist has not performed much beyond the...

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The Dark Lady

Ava brought bubbles just when I needed them: champagne smiles, frothy laughter, and a lathering of thoughts as she stroked the arm of our red velvet settee. “William,” she said to my husband one early...

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Everyone You Meet Is God in Drag

Drag night with Patrick begins with cocktails and pop music, and the two of us dressing up to go nowhere. With Gaga blaring, we take out the makeup from our bags. Mine is a mess, but then again, so is...

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