Death+Taxes

There are a few things you have to take into consideration if you ever find yourself going to see a band like Built to Spill on a yacht, as I did last Thursday.

Rodney King, whose brutal 1992 beating by LA cops set off an era-defining race riot, will marry one of the jurors on his trial—the one that pushed hardest to clear the $3.8 million settlement in his civil suit against the city of Los Angeles.

A Tarot deck is far and away one of the most fascinating pieces of conceptual art ever created.  Usually it is associated with psychics, weirdos, Terry Gilliam, Thomas Pynchon (particularly in “Gravity’s Rainbow”) and adepts of magick like Aleister Crowley and A.E. Waite, both of whom created their own Tarot decks. Carl Jung, the famed psychoanalyst, believed the Tarot images “descended from the archetypes of transformation.”

Nooo! SNL will be letting go of Jenny Slate to make room for the show’s new entrants. This is a terrible idea.

We’re starting a new experiment today: it’s a new column called TwitTracks, where we’ll ask you to review new music over Twitter. Who cares what we think? We want to know what you think.

Journalist Thomas Roberts covers the news and has been the news. Here he discusses objectivity in the news, how he’s an average American worried about the economy, and why Snooki deserves political attention.

If Wyclef Jean wanted to see how a president talks shit, he should have watched President Obama this weekend.

A new video has surfaced in the campaign to convince Stephen Colbert to hold a “Restoring Truthiness” rally to rebuff Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally. Watch, and join.

You know if General Petraeus is pissed at you, you’re fucking up America.

We may be gearing up for a clash of the titans: Since it unveiled iTunes and the iPod in 2003, Apple has enjoyed a relative monopoly on the way we buy and listen to music. This Christmas, that may change.

Perhaps the world’s only notable rock cellist was killed in England over the weekend when a bale of hay crushed his van.

Want to know what Martin Luther King Jr. would say about Glenn Beck? He told Playboy in 1965.