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VULTURE
MOST RECENT
Conversation
with Slate's Dana Stevens About Speed Racer (mp3)
Slate, May 2008
Book Review:
Child 44
Raleigh News & Observer, May 2008
Q&A With Child
44 Author Tom Rob Smith
New York, May 2008
Kids' Lit Gets Graphic
New York, April 2008
Please,
Someone Rescue Patrick Stewart From His Upcoming NBA Nightmare!
Daily Intel, April 2008
Trailer Mix: Righteous
Kill, Iron Man, Get Smart, Wall-E
New York, March 2008
NCAA
Tournament Preview: North Carolina
Deadspin, March 2008
Milwaukee
Brewers 2008 Season Preview
Deadspin, March 2008
Best-Director Death Match
New York, January 2008
Who Cares How Good the Movies Really Are? Let's Talk Oscar!
New York, December 2007
The Best
Comics of 2007
New York, December 2007
Culture
Apocalypse 2008
New York, December 2007
Conversation with
Slate's Dana Stevens about The Golden Compass (SPOILERS) (mp3)
Slate, December 2007
Book review: Born
Standing Up by Steve Martin
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 2007
Your Pre-Holiday Guide to
Downer Films
New York, November 2007
Book
review: The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta
Raleigh News & Observer, November 2007
Book
review: Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis
Sidebar:
The Complete Peanuts 1965-1966
Raleigh News & Observer, October 2007
ARTS | CURRENT AFFAIRS
| SPORTS | TRAVEL
SHOPPING | PERSONAL ESSAYS | HUMOR
WONKETTE
MORNING REPORTS | TWOP | SALON
MUSIC PREVIEWS
ARTS
Please,
Someone Rescue Patrick Stewart From His Upcoming NBA Nightmare!
Daily Intel, April 2008
Trailer Mix: Righteous
Kill, Iron Man, Get Smart, Wall-E
New York, March 2008
Best-Director Death Match
New York, January 2008
Who Cares How Good the Movies Really Are? Let's Talk Oscar!
New York, December 2007
The Best
Comics of 2007
New York, December 2007
Culture
Apocalypse 2008
New York, December 2007
Book review: Born
Standing Up by Steve Martin
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 2007
Your Pre-Holiday Guide to
Downer Films
New York, November 2007
Book
review: The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta
Raleigh News & Observer, November 2007
Book
review: Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis
Sidebar:
The Complete Peanuts 1965-1966
Raleigh News & Observer, October 2007
Q&A with Shortcomings'
Adrian Tomine
New York, October 2007
Book
review: New Stories From the South 2007
Raleigh News & Observer, September 2007
The Book Club: Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Slate, July 2007
Why Bambi II Is Better
Than Bambi: In Defense of the Straight-to-DVD Sequel
Slate, July 2007
Ode to the Best Southern
Playwright You Haven't Heard of Yet (jpeg)
The Oxford American, Best of the South Issue (Summer 2007)
Conversation
with Slate's Dana Stevens about Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
(SPOILERS) (mp3)
Slate, July 2007
How Harry Potter Really
Ends
Slate, June 2007
Conversation
with Slate's Dana Stevens about Knocked Up (SPOILERS) (mp3)
Slate, June 2007
Culturebox: Spider-Man Gets All
Emo
Interview
with Slate's Dana Stevens about Spider-Man 3 (SPOILERS) (mp3)
Slate, May 2007
Culturebox: NBC's Thank God You're
Here
Slate, April 2007
The
Spider-Man Musical
New York Magazine's Daily Intel, April 2007
Men Without Tights
Slate, January 2007
Graphic Violence: The Best Comics
About the Iraq War
Slate, January 2007
'Till the Day
That I Drop: In Defense of Robert Altman's Popeye
The Believer, December 2006
R.E.M. vs. U2
Slate, November 2006
Dan Kois interviewed
by David Burd of Washington's WTWP. (mp3)
Can Studio 60 Be Saved?
Slate, October 2006
Dan Kois interviewed
by Slate's Andy Bowers. (mp3)
Shelved:
Bookstores That Live Only in the Mind
The New York Times, October 2006
(This link is to a large jpeg of the original article.
The full text is also available via the Times' paid
archives.)
Scott Pilgrim's Progress
Slate, October 2006
Expecting Company
New York Magazine, October 2006
Everything
You Were Afraid to Ask
About "The Wire"
Salon, October 2004
Lenny Bruce's Children
Salon, September 2004
Everything
You Were Afraid to Ask
About "Donnie Darko"
Salon, July 2004
Confessions
of a Netflix Failure
Salon, June 2004
Beyoncé, Your Mixtape Sucks
Slate, May 2004
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Explainer: How Do You Pilot an
Unmanned Drone?
Slate, August 2006
Frontiers
of Free Enterprise: The Snooze
The New York Times, October 2004
(This link is to a large jpeg of the original article.
The full text is also available via the Times' paid
archives.)
Explainer: What's That Flower On
Blair's Lapel?
Slate, November 2004
Explainer: Where Does Space Begin?
Slate, September 2004
Waiting
for Youssou
The New York Times, August 2004
(This link is to a large jpeg of the original article.
The full text is also available via the Times' paid
archives.)
GI Joe Is a Fake
Salon, August 2004
Explainer: When Do Papers Print the F-Word?
Slate, June 2004
Explainer: What's a Catafalque?
Slate, June 2004
SPORTS
Please,
Someone Rescue Patrick Stewart From His Upcoming NBA Nightmare!
Daily Intel, April 2008
The Death of the Bracketmaster
Slate, March 2007
NCAA
Preview: Penn
Deadspin, March 2007
Milwaukee
Brewers 2007 Season Preview
Deadspin, February 2007
Dispatch From the U.S.Open: A
Report From the Outer Courts
Slate, September 2006
Agassi vs. Agassi
Slate, August 2006
Upon Further Review: NFL
Officials on the Lookout for Late Hits and Loogies
Slate, November 2004
The Curse of
Alfonso Soriano
Salon, October 2004
Explainer: What Is Blood Doping?
Slate, September 2004
Tumbling Passé
Slate, August 2004
Gymnastics Judging: Inscrutable
No More!
Slate, August 2004
Explainer: Does Peeing On Your Hands
Toughen the Skin?
Slate, May 2004
TRAVEL
Holiday
Splendor of New York: Off the Beaten Track in the Big Apple
The Honolulu Advertiser, December 2006
SHOPPING
Shelved:
Bookstores That Live Only in the Mind
The New York Times, October 2006
Shopper: Out To Lunch
Slate, September 2006
Shopper: The Tangy Twelve
Slate, March 2005
PERSONAL ESSAYS
New
York Turned My Poi Dog Mean
Honolulu Magazine, July 2006
Static
American
Journal of Print, 2002
HUMOR
How Harry Potter Really
Ends
Slate, June 2007
The
Spider-Man Musical
New York Magazine's Daily Intel, April 2007
New
York Turned My Poi Dog Mean
Honolulu Magazine, July 2006
The Curse of
Alfonso Soriano
Salon, October 2004
GI Joe Is a Fake
Salon, August 2004
Names of Characters Played
By Donald Gibb Since Starring as Ogre in "Revenge of the Nerds"
mcsweeneys.net, March 2003
The Rumor
Originally performed at the Atlantic Theater in 2002 as part of the 24-Hour
Plays.
WONKETTE PRE-ELECTION MORNING REPORTS (2004)
10.20
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10.25
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11.1
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TELEVISION WITHOUT PITY LOST RECAPS (2004)
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SALON MUSIC
PREVIEWS (2002-2003)
DJ
Shadow | Soundbombing
III | Aimee
Mann | Mr.
Lif
Neko
Case | Future
Bible Heroes | Doug
Martsch | MC
Paul Barman
Sigur
Ros | Talib
Kweli | Cody
ChesnuTT | Catherine
Irwin and Sue Garner
