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On a warm spring evening, Leni Zumas led a core fiction workshop in Portland State's MFA program in creative writing. Mary Ann Dougherty was in the hot seat and Zumas, an assistant professor finishing her first year at PSU, made sure every part of Dougherty's story was getting the attention it deserved.

If you only knew the singing sensation by her 1970s smashes, you barely knew her at all

"Where the Wild Things Are" was published in 1963, just one year after I was born. This, I am sure, was no accident. I have always been up for a wild rumpus. Which doesn't make me particularly special. The 1960s, as "Mad Men" takes pains to remind us with each new episode, was a decade-long wild rumpus. If you didn't seize every chance to ride piggy-back on half-menacing, half-jubilant dancing ...

Back in the day, Beastie Boy Adam Yauch brought Tibetan music and Buddhist philosophy to music fans everywhere. Originally published in the January 1995 Shambhala Sun magazine, this interview finds Yauch after the release of "Ill Communication," candidly talking about about hip-hop, hardcore, helping people and his relationship to Buddhism's Bodhisattva Vow. Amy Green: What was your first ...

The best Dead Kennedys cover band to ever grace Atlanta is playing its final show today, sometime after 6 p.m. is their best guess, at El Myr in Little 5 Points. Behind El Myr in the parking lot, actually, as part of the revered burrito bar's annual Cinco de May festival.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

For a band that broke out with the indelible slacker declaration “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party),” the Beastie Boys weren't exactly the most likely group to turn into human rights activists. Yet it was the trio -- that included Adam Yauch, the Buddhist who lost his battle with cancer Friday at 47 -- that led the battle for Tibet in the late '90s at a time when changing the world ...

He was MCA. The handsome, swaggery Beastie Boy. The low growl the others' ratatats bounced off of. A guy whose early tours including dancing girls in cages and an inflatable, enormous penis. He was Adam Yauch. Vegan and a practicing Buddhist. Recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. A 47-year-old husband and father. Another goddamn cancer statistic. He died Friday morning. For those of us who ...

"Surely somebody has noticed that the old 9:30 Club building in Washington, D.C., is soon to be a J. Crew store," writes Wm. Ferguson on the New York Times Magazine 's 6th Floor blog today . "Surely someone will claim this is somehow 'ironic,' that the club that fostered the all-ages hardcore scene of Minor Threat, Government Issue and Fugazi will soon sell pairs of $140 Café Capri pants in ...

By the time J. Crew opens its store in the space of the legendary 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., the keg-rot problem will have been solved.

For a while, it seemed as though this city would have to thrive on the fame of Tesla and Cake for the rest of eternity, but something has happened.

Ever wonder what they play in the restaurant kitchen? Minor Threat, Eagles and Wiz Khalifa.