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Over a Century Ago, Two Young Girls Pulled a Prank That Got Way Out of Hand—And Convinced The World that Fairies Really Exist
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(Arts)
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"Fairies Offering Flowers to Iris," 1920, modeled by Elsie Wright and taken by Frances Griffiths. Credit: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Once upon a time, two girls played a prank ...
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Created on 16 December 2021
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Welcome to WitchTok, The Meeting Place For Gen Z and Millennial Magick
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(Entertainment)
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TikTok pretty much has it all. Over the course of the past few months, the video-sharing app has become one of the most used applications in the world. While most of the app’s users are between the ...
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Created on 24 July 2020
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The Breeders, Kembra Pfahler, Neneh Cherry, And More Played The Netherlands' Le Guess Who? Festival 2018
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(Music)
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The Netherlands: they don’t call it the Lowlands for no reason. As the Intercity train hurtles from Rotterdam towards our destination, outside our window, ribbons of water dissect the fields, creating ...
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Created on 27 November 2018
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7 New Albums To Listen To This March: Playlist
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(Music)
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Welcome to the second half of our music reviews from our February/March 2018 issue! (See the first half here.) March brings us new albums from the Breeders, the Orielles, U.S. Girls and more. Read ...
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Created on 09 March 2018
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"Tales Of Endearment" Is A Book For Lovers Of Fashion, Vintage, Stories, And Photography: BUST Revie
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(Books)
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“A love for the discarded, the recycled, and the nostalgic.” That’s the motivating force behind Natalie Joos' book, Tales of Endearment: Modern Vintage Lovers and Their Extraordinary Wardrobes. Joos' ...
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Created on 05 January 2018
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Anna Copa Cabanna Takes On Bad 'Manners' In New Music Video: BUST Premier
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(Music)
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One of our favorite NYC rockers, Zohra Atash of Azar Swan and Religious To Damn, interviewed another one of our faves, Anna Copa Cabanna, about her new music video "Manners" — premiering exclusively ...
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Created on 28 March 2016
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“Perfection Is Boring”: Q & A With Kim Shattuck of The Muffs
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(Music)
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Kim Shattuck, guitarist of The Muffs, had missed her band. She had been playing with the LA-based punk rock group since their formation in 1991 and up until they decided to take a break after their fifth ...
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Created on 11 August 2014
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Card Your Mom This Sunday!
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(General)
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Might be a nice surprise--it probably doesn't happen to her much anymore. Sure, sure, there's no way you left it to the last minute. You're not one of those kids. You definitely already got a card for Mother' ...
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Created on 10 May 2014
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Nine INCREDIBLE Performances From the Rock Goddess Hall of Fame
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(Music)
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Though these days, it's almost difficult to imagine a world B.B. (Before Beyonce...), in honor of a news day so indebted to women who rock, yours truly has trawled the internet for lasting evidence of ...
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Created on 07 February 2014
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The Pixies Have a New Bassist, But This Time She's Not Named Ki
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(Music)
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After playing with the Pixies for 25 years, bassist Kim Deal called it quits in June of this year. Her replacement, Kim Shattuck, is lead singer and guitarist of The Muffs, and previous member of The ...
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Created on 09 December 2013
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Review: Tinderbox Music Festival 2013
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(Music)
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Last Friday night, the Tinderbox Music Festival celebrated its fourth year with performances by seventeen kickass female artists at The Music Hall of Williamsburg. Founded by singer/songwriter ...
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Created on 07 November 2013
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Girlcrush: Awesome Female Wrestler Opens Up About The Biz
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(Feminism)
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RVA magazine recently posted an interview with Richmond, VA native female wrestler Mickie James. In the interview, she talks extensively about her career in the WWE, country music, and the state ...
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Created on 10 October 2013
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13.
Can You Tell If a Movie's Sexist? The Mako Mori Test Can Hel
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(Movies)
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... than, say, your workplace does. The Bechdel test made it especially easy for us to enumerate these weaknesses. (For those of you who don’t know, the Bechdel test is a three-step process to determine whether ...
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Created on 29 August 2013
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Kim Shattuck Takes Over the Pixies, The Muffs, and the World
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(Music)
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... of Babetown started back in the 80’s as a member of the kick-ass girl group The Pandoras.
But she’s most famously known for being lead singer and guitarist of a little band you may have ...
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Created on 17 July 2013
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Album Review: The Bronx | The Bronx (IV)
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(Music)
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Since its beginnings in 2002, Los Angeles band the Bronx has incorporated a sunny element within its version of hardcore. Maybe it’s a California thing, but it’s hard to describe their explosive, ...
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Created on 08 February 2013
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Album Review: Cloud Nothings | Attack on Memory
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(Music)
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In a little less than a year, Dylan Baldi--as well known for his precociousness as the thrashy, fun music he’s been producing for the past few years--has turned into a brooding, broken-hearted misanthrope. ...
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Created on 24 January 2012
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17.
Kayt Hester: For the Love of Masking Tape and the Pixies
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(Arts)
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... the artist’s intent and skill level. But the sophistication and quirkiness of Kayt Hester’s masking tape pieces make me rethink what goes on a canvas, let alone the walls of a gallery show. Using ripped ...
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Created on 11 July 2011
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Vans x Santigold - a new one-true pairing?
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(Style)
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Santi White, better known by her stage name Santigold, is definitely celebrated for her unique melodies, reminiscent of Pixies and inspired by 1980’s pop and Siouxsie and the Banshees, and yet completely ...
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Created on 25 January 2011
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Rainbows, Robots, Unicorns, Oh My!
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(General)
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... fairies, fierce galloping iron robot unicorns, and majestic flying sequences. You are the unicorn running and jumping from grass cliff to grass cliff, shooting through the air and collecting little rainbow ...
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Created on 20 October 2010
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Julian Plenti at the Bowery Ballroom
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(Music)
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I am considering making it "my thing" in writing up concert reviews to re-tell the occurrences of fights that broke out while I was there. It seems to happen at every show I go to and is distracting in ...
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Created on 25 November 2009