Eyeteeth: Incisive ideas

A blow to the progressive community... Molly Ivins, whose biting columns mixed liberal populism with an irreverent Texas wit, died at 5:30 ...

After six weeks of boot camp and four weeks of training to be a Humvee mechanic, 24-year-old Army specialist Casey Sheehan was sent to Iraq....

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The Times Online gives a little plug for the autograph project: Paul Schmelzer is on a strange mission: to gather autographs from celebr...

Given how media shakeups have been racking up headlines of late--from the sales of both metro dailies to editorial oustings at City Pages ...

I've been quietly building my autograph project--in which I've been getting celebrities like Yoko Ono, Bruce Sterling, and David Sed...

In 1954 researcher Kenneth B. Clark did a test: he asked African American kids to choose which doll they liked better, a black one or a whit...

The San Francisco Chronicle , after captioning a photo of an airplane a "pilotless drone," got a livid phonecall from a defender o...

Old-school billboard liberation in Munich, via Wooster Collective .

One condition of Steve Lopez's interview with LA transportation chief Jaime de la Vega: Don't ask about his Hummer . In the American...

I usually don't go for such things, but since André at placeboKatz tagged me, I'll indulge in the blog version of the chain letter:...

"Kerry will not seek the White House"

It's my birthday, so I'm putting on my best suit and getting out of here. See you after the party.

"A police officer lights a bonfire of confiscated rifles at the Lake Tanganyika stadium in Kigoma, Tanzania. Some 2,000 guns were surr...

In New York, a person or group dubbed " The Splasher " has been getting plenty of attention for dousing street-art works with pain...

From The Nonist .

Marketed as " functional kitsch ," the Woofer speakers by Sander Mulder of the Netherlands-based design house Buro Vormkrijgers . ...

Early this week, Rake media writer Brian Lambert published an e-mail sent to City Pages' "letters" address by Monica Moses,...

This amazing illustration was produced in 1911 for the Industrial Workers of the World by Nedeljkovich, Brashich, and Kuharich. While blunt...

Banksy has made several of his most famous images available as free downloads . Note from the artist: "Prints look best when done on gl...