Category Archives: Culture

Crush It Like Quint

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Max West

In honor of Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week,” Narragansett Beer is, for a limited time, reintroducing the 1970s beer can design from the move Jaws.

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Amangiri Resort

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Max West

While it’s well above my pay grade (nightly rates from $1,100 to $7,500), the Amangiri Resort in southern Utah looks absolutely stunning. Ensconced in the natural rock formations that face Escalante National Monument, the modernist architecture of this place obviously … Continue reading →

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Culture

Posted on August 3, 2013 by Max West

“The only difference between California and yogurt is that yogurt has active culture.” — Woody Allen

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The Frankfurt School at War

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Max West

In The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements, Kevin MacDonald spends a significant portion of the book analyzing The Frankfurt School, the radical, postmodernist ideology factory, comprised of jewish emigres from … Continue reading →

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Relief

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Max West

Melitha Harrith-Perry said she felt “relief” that her ultrasound determined she was giving birth to a daughter instead of a son. The MSNBC host devoted her show on Sunday to the [Zimmerman] verdict. “I will never forget… the relief I … Continue reading →

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Stranglehold

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Max West

In “Literature Is Dead (According to Straight, White Guys, At Least)“, Joel Breuklander (born in Orange County, CA, currently residing in… NYC) bemoans the bemoaning. Take The New York Times‘ Verlyn Klinkenborg, who recently wrote that a “technical narrowness” is … Continue reading →

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Rachel Jeantel, PhD-bound

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Max West

Eloquent, nubian princess Rachel Jeantel has been offered a full college scholarship by a lib radio host Tom Joyner. “Rachel, here’s my offer to you. If you want to graduate from high school and go to an HBCU, even if … Continue reading →

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Mania

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Max West

  Wow, where to start… Expected demographic? Check. Standard-issue, one-size-fits-all, ‘No Justice No Peace’ slogan? Check. Marxist ANSWER affiliation? Check. Misspelling on sign? Check. Trendy, ghetto-bootlegged, cause célèbre T-shirt? Check. Meanwhile, from an ANSWER rally in… drumroll…. San Francisco: ‘Whole System … Continue reading →

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Jacob Riis: Bandit’s Roost

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Max West

Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a photojournalistic study of New York City slums in the 1880s. I find this photograph (“Bandit’s Roost”) from the book utterly mesmerizing.

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Life Imitating Art – Pt. 219,291

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Max West

“[The] Native American community…is so behind this movie, it’s fantastic.” —  The Lone Ranger Producer Jerry Bruckheimer “Ecstatic American Indians Praise ‘The Lone Ranger’: ‘Finally Our Story Is Being Told,’ Tribespeople Say” — The Onion

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