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To mark your correspondent’s return from Repúbluca Federativa do Brasil: Via reader HS and (the NSFW) Wilful Damage. As we limber our fingers, we might recall that it was on this date in 1512 that the...
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A selection of entries from Music History in GIFs… ### As we tap our toes, we might recall that it was on this date in 1946– on his 11th birthday– that Elvis Presley received his first guitar. Elvis...
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As income and wealth inequality has grown in the developed world, so have the ranks of security guards—for gated communities, upscale residential buildings, corporate offices, exclusive events, and...
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The inspiration for this project was the Doof Warrior’s flamethrower guitar from Mad Max. Nothing says rock-n-roll more than actual fire entwined with your tunes! I didn’t want to try to replicate...
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Chrissie Hynde fronting the Pretenders with a swamp ash Fendar Every winter and spring, rains across the central U.S. combine with snowmelt along the northern reaches of the Mississippi River to...
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… Pretty low if you have an octobass– which the Montreal Symphony now does… The Montreal Symphony Orchestra has just become the only ensemble in the world to employ an octobass… Here it is dwarfing...
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