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Battleship: Because Every Generation Needs an Armageddon

Bento Boxes: Five Creative Examples of Food as Art

Courtesy of Amorette DyeMade with lunch meats, cheese, cucumbers, and mayonnaise.​Amorette Dye is a mom and ex-medical student who maintains a transparently honest blog about living with cancer, losing a child, and navigating the labyrinths of health insurance and long-term care. But under her art ... More >>

Your Week In Fidel Castro Fantasies: U.S. Sank South Korean Ship, Wants Nuclear War With Iran

Fidel Castro may indeed be 83 percent dead, based on our crack team of unpaid but enthusiastic scientists' latest calculations, but that 17 percent still kickin' can spin a better conspiracy theory than Rush Limbaugh.(On second thought, isn't Castro basically Cuba's Rush at this point? He spends his ... More >>

Interview: Chef Kurtis D. Jantz Gets the 10, uh, 15

Chef Kurtis D. Jantz​For every incredibly boring interview we get in (be thankful we spare you from those), at least one comes in chock-full of so much creative stuff that we find it near impossible to cull. So consider the extra five answers from Chef Kurtis D. Jantz (below) a New Year's giftie. ... More >>

WTF Is It?!? Round 6.5

Chef Kurtis D. Jantz​For every incredibly boring interview we get in (be thankful we spare you from those), at least one comes in chock-full of so much creative stuff that we find it near impossible to cull. So consider the extra five answers from Chef Kurtis D. Jantz (below) a New Year's giftie. ... More >>

New Wave’s for All Ages

Chef Kurtis D. Jantz​For every incredibly boring interview we get in (be thankful we spare you from those), at least one comes in chock-full of so much creative stuff that we find it near impossible to cull. So consider the extra five answers from Chef Kurtis D. Jantz (below) a New Year's giftie. ... More >>

Half Great

Kill Bill's missing something -- like, oh, a proper ending

Old Soul

Mark Eitzel makes music for grownups

Djeli Moussa Diawara and Bob Brozman

Ocean Blues -- From Africa to Hawaii (Melodie/Celluloid)

Takashi Hirayasu and Bob Brozman

Jin Jin/Firefly (World Music Network)

Screen Tests II

Jin Jin/Firefly (World Music Network)

Chairman of the Boards

Jin Jin/Firefly (World Music Network)

Will the Last Hurricane Profiteer to Leave Miami Please Turn Out the Lights?

John Eugene Yoder arrived in Miami 30 days after the Big One. Three stray dogs, 48 pairs of tennis shoes, one girlfriend's college degree, seven hammers, 300 condos, and four years later, he's riding off into the sunset.