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Kansas in Drag, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
April 11, 2014
On the Shelf
A photograph from Kansas City recently discovered by Robert Heishman.
Today is Rizzoli Bookstore’s
last day in business on Fifty-Seventh Street.
Visit their beautiful shop before it’s gone.
An unnerving correlation between philosophy and murder: “
Countries with high homicide rates also have citizens who believe strongly in free will
.”
Britain
got rich on sheep
. “Wool was the white gold of our economy in the Middle Ages: when Richard the Lionheart was ransomed by the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry VI, the Cistercian monasteries of Britain were asked for a year’s haul of fleece to pay for him.”
“
Amazon has purchased Comixology
, the largest retailer of digital comics.” Is your local brick-and-mortar comic-book store completely fucked?
Nobody wants to go to Colonial Williamsburg anymore
. “Here’s an idea: market Colonial Williamsburg as so stodgy and weirdly Americana it’s cool, like taxidermy or trucker hats.”
In an old shoebox, an artist has discovered a series of strangely affecting photos from
the Kansas City drag scene
of the sixties.
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