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The City Talking: Comics

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World exclusive first play of the Brookes Brothers forthcoming single 'Anthem' (feat. Camille) on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show (7th Nov. 2014): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04n21rw

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The Majestic fire started very quietly, and I was wondering what the fuss was all about.

The sight of the Majestic roof ablaze grabbed the headlines later, but you probably missed the best part; the noirish view of a deserted Quebec Street, the Hollywood smoke effect making the great stone edifice of the Queens Hotel not so much tower as haunt. It would have been a great night to bump off a gangster rival in the alleys between Quebec Street and Wellington Street.

It didn't look like much then. "I don't know what's going on inside," I said in a text message around 8.30pm. "But it's just a bit of smoke out here." I walked around the building and, even with the police cordon in place, I could have reached out to touch the Majestic's side, given it a reassuring pat. "It'll be okay," I didn't say. "Nothing to worry about."

It's a good job I didn't say that, because if those walls could have talked they would have said, "Are you bloody kidding?"

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The Majestic fire started very quietly, and the building is very quiet again now. When things are quiet, though, is when you can hear your heartbeat; you hear a reminder to love.

Photo Report: The Morning After the Majestic Fire

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Bradford's architectural renaissance // Phil Hartman remembered by Jack Handey, the SNL writer behind Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer and other sketches. // A Luddite’s Intimate Portraits of an Internet Sensation // Warhammer 40,000, Christopher Urban // Paris Review – Go to Work on an Egg, Dan Piepenbring // Paris Review – What It’s Like to Write About the Dead Every Day, Alex Ronan // Saltaire Beer Festival // Paris Review – Credos, Sadie Stein // The Anonymous Literary Salon in a Brooklyn Bar // In ‘Lila,’ Marilynne Robinson Gives a Prequel to ‘Gilead’ // ‘The 50 Year Argument,’ an HBO Documentary // New Yorker’s Magazine Covers Shift From Polite to Provocative // Magazines Get a Way to Measure Their Reach Across Media Platforms // Think you drink a lot? This chart will tell you. // Ideo Helps Develop New Designed-Minded Journalism Degree // An Interview with Joseph O’Neill, Jonathan Lee // Paris Review – Nevermore, Sadie Stein // How Jeff Zucker Is Seeking to Reshape CNN // ‘Women in Clothes,’ by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton and Many More // For Alan Cumming, Life Isn’t Always a Cabaret // Nicholas Blincoe reviews ‘The Manchester Contemporary’ // Review: The Manchester Contemporary, Old Granada Studios // Capitalized Clues to a Glitch //

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>But none of them, nor any one, can know the feeling made of relief and pain and despair that comes over me at the thought of sending all this to the wise wide world. It is bits of my wooden heart broken off and given away. It is string of amber beads taken from the fair neck of my soul. It is shining little gold coins from out of my mind's red leather purse. It is my little old life-tragedy. >It means everything to me. >Do you see? It means *everything* to me. (via I Await the Devil's Coming by Mary MacLane | LibraryThing)

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Line by Line, E-Books Turn Poet-Friendly // Near McAlester // Will Self: The awful cult of the talentless hipster has taken over // Catharsis, Consumed, Containers, The Paris Review // ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos’ Turns 25 // Appreciating Arthur Russell, Pop Music’s Most Influential Unknown Star // Absolut Nods to Warhol’s Nod to Absolut // CD-Loving Japan Resists Move to Online Music // U2’s Forgettable Fire // Loeb Classical Library Goes Digital // At Work in a Bronx That Brims With Creativity // Public Books — Autobibliography // NYRblog : Roving thoughts and provocations // The Magic in Apple’s Devices? The Heart // Pop Culture and Power // Why Everyone Should Be Waiting for Grimes’s Next Album // At the RIBA // What Ernest Cole’s Hidden Camera Revealed // Mateschitz’s marketing menagerie – muzzled by mighty Union // What’s Lost When the Cloud Replaces CDs // Trend Piece // Tool Called Dataminr Hunts for News in the Din of Twitter // ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher,’ by Hilary Mantel // When Blogging Becomes a Slog // Pub review: Abbey Inn, Leeds // An App That Replaces Ads With Art // Hilary Mantel vs Margaret Thatcher // Author of 'The News Sorority' Discusses the Fallout Sparked by Her Book on the Women of TV News // Harlem’s Flower and Chess Man, Forced Into an Unwanted Move // Watching what happens: The New York Times is making a front-page bet on real-time aggregation // Weekend Reading: Justin Timberlake, Lightning Strikes, and More // Beckett, Boxtrolls, Bard, The Paris Review // A Defining Question in an iPhone Age: Live for the Moment or Record It? //

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The Death of Adulthood in American Culture // An urbanist's guide to Manchester: ‘To make the most of life here you need an open, creative mind’ // Coming to the Rescue for Riders Who Drop Treasures on the Tracks // The fade-out in pop music : Why don’t modern pop songs end by slowly reducing in volume? // The Maker Movement Is Leaving a Trail of Tiny Plastic Rabbits in Its Wake // American Reader to drop its web content and focus on print // Paris Review – Notes on the Selfie Stick, Sadie Stein // Paris Review – Sadie Stein on Daphne du Maurier’s “Rebecca”, Sadie Stein // A Sobering Future for New York’s Dive Bars // Paris Review – Cardboard, Glue, and Storytelling, Dan Piepenbring // [Weekly Review] : September 16, 2014, by Ryann Liebenthal : Harper's Magazine //

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(via Moby Dick by Herman Melville | LibraryThing)

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(via My Ears Are Bent by Joseph Mitchell | LibraryThing)

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(via Lands of Glass by Alessandro Baricco | LibraryThing)

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The Great American Twitter Novel // ‘All the Rage,’ by A. L. Kennedy // What Would Twitter Do? — What Would Twitter Do? // Agostino (New York Review Books Classics) // What Are BuzzFeed’s New Editorial Standards? // Nailed It: Buzzfeed Cracks The Pinterest Code // Public Editor: How The Upshot Replaced Nate Silver // A Summer in the New Yorker Archive // The Baffler Puts Its Archive Online // Hey Creatives, Stop Fetishising Estates // Full Time: Fading Images of the World Cup // Zine Makers Grab Their MetroCards and Go to Work // Balancing Acts // Beastings by Benjamin Myers // "A Banquet Ended": On Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton // “So We Were on This Beach . . .” // Buzzfeed Is Officially A Case Study In Media Industry Disruption // A brief history of the war between Reddit and Tumblr // A Eulogy for Twitter // Andy Sidaris : The man who invented sports television’s “honey shot.” // Ashley Highfield - interview // What’s more rare — a unicorn or an Al Jazeera America viewer? // Four Evocative New Trends Happening on the Newsstand Today & A Staunch One That Never Changes… A Mr. Magazine™ Report From the Field… // Mental Floss: The Magazine That Breaks All the Rules of Publishing // [Weekly Review] : July 29, 2014, by Jacob Z. Gross : Harper's Magazine // Can Reddit Grow Up? // But I invested in you! // Every Datum Tells a Story // Being a Better Online Reader // What Would Twitter Do? — What Would Twitter Do? // Lady With a Pencil // Are You Cynical Enough to Hate Upworthy? // Burger King Is Run by Children // What Makes the Vienna Philharmonic So Distinctive // Van Gaalogy 101 // Geoff Dyer: “There should be an annual festival devoted to me” // Robert Duncan and Jess, and Their Wonderland of Art // Beckett’s Bilingual Oeuvre: Style, Sin, and the Psychology of Literary Influence // Dispute Between Amazon and Hachette Takes an Orwellian Turn // Pomona: the lost island of Manchester // Harper’s Publisher Standing Firm in His Defense of Print and Paywall // 50 Million New Reasons BuzzFeed Wants to Take Its Content Far Beyond Lists // Oxford Dictionary Recognizes: YOLO, Amazeballs and Hot Mess // An Art Project on Wheels // For Its New Shows, Amazon Adds Art to Its Data // View of #Ferguson Thrust Michael Brown Shooting to National Attention // This Is What It Was Like to Go to James Joyce's Birthday Party And have him chat with you about his favorite novels. // Son Discovers His Father’s Life of Crime Is Now a Work of Art by Warhol // What happens if you hide everything on Facebook? I tried it for a day. // The absolute worst cliche online today // How “YOLO” went from Drake to dictionary : Ideas : The Boston Globe // Movement That Streams // The Enemies, and Friends, of the Humanities // James Alexander Gordon on reading classified results // Longing for New York’s bad old days // Whatever Happened to St. Petersburg? // Rightbloggers Take Back the Culture with Anti-Feminist Tumblr, Religious Film Reviews, Etc. // Who Is Elena Ferrante? // Popular and Free, SoundCloud Is Now Ready for Ads // Review: Mathew Parkin – 45683968, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, Leeds // Elena Ferrante on the Origins of her Neapolitan Novels // The Evolution of Slang // Ferguson Reveals a Twitter Loop // Latest Stories : Columbia Journalism Review // Humans of New York Goes Global // Months Before He Died, I Spent One Drunk Night Interviewing Tony Wilson // Mental Floss Is Buoyed by Online Video // When it comes to chasing clicks, journalists say one thing but feel pressure to do another // How Big Data Reveals The Secret Life Of Cities // ‘The Dog,’ by Joseph O’Neill // Elena Ferrante’s ‘Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay’ // Who Made That Cocktail Shaker? // Town Becomes a Beer Ad, but Residents Don’t Feel Like a Party // At the U.S. Open, They Know the Ins and Outs // Why Walking Helps Us Think // The British Vlogger Invasion Is Vain and Inane // Pretenders and Holy Fools: E. L. Doctorow’s Andrew’s Brain // [Weekly Review] : September 2, 2014, by Viviane Fairbank : Harper's Magazine // End the Tyranny of 24/7 Email // Photorealism’s Lasting Influence // Elena Ferrante and the Force of Female Friendships // Early-’60s Absurdism in ‘Red Eye of Love’ // Lyric Essay as Perversion (Channeling Djuna Barnes) //

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(via The Natural by Bernard Malamud | LibraryThing)

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Blog Sites Unite: Brooklyn, We’ve Got You Covered // ↓↓↓ Look Down ↓↓↓ // Take A Minute To Watch The New Way We Make Web Headlines Now // No Cornering Clinton on ‘Daily Show’ // Oldies on the Subway // The Eternal “Illmatic” // Paris Review – The End, Rowan Ricardo Phillips // Meditation for Strivers // [Weekly Review] : July 15, 2014, by Jeremy Keehn : Harper's Magazine // John Seigenthaler’s Epic Sensibility // The staid young // Over the course of a weekend, DashCon 2014 descended into chaos // The Internet Is Killing the Warped Tour // NYRblog : Roving thoughts and provocations // Auction Houses Bring Pre-20th-Century Works Out of the Shadows // Blackpool transfer stand-off cause for fans' concern //

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Pub review: The Bay Horse, Meanwood, Leeds // The Novel in Real Time // A New Model for Music: Big Bands, Big Brands // Hey, Subway Hog // The Story of Joe // Library of America’s Bernard Malamud Collections // Apple Designer Jonathan Ive on What's Next // Missing: Ketamine. Have you seen this drug? // Paris Review – Bull City Redux, Nicole Rudick // In Praise of an Understudy // The Pointlessness of Unplugging // Blotto Pilot // Freshman Disorientation // Two Cultures, One City // The Campaign to “Cancel” Colbert // A walk, but not really in the park // Cielo, Garforth – The North’s Coffee Community pt VI // Vox Takes Melding of Journalism and Technology to a New Level // Weekend Reading: Underpaid Cheerleaders, A Shattered Iranian Rock Band, Malaria’s Cradle // April’s Visual Art Digest // Stenographer, Fired Over Drinking Problem, Left Headaches for Appellate Courts // Lofty Newspaper Project Is Closed After Two Years // Miley Twerks Through Brooklyn // Made To Break by D. 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On Finding Vivian Maier // Red Monkey // As Barbara Walters Retires, the Big TV Interview Signs Off, Too // Rebooting Elle // The crazy parties Microsoft doesn’t want you to know it’s having // Deventer by Matthew Stadler // We Went There: Watching the USMNT on Copacabana Beach in Rio // A 'Rich Kid of Instagram' Had Four Luxury Cars Destroyed in Arson Attacks // Ghosts at the Feast // Yahoo Wants You to Linger (on the Ads, Too) // The Red and the Scarlet // George Saunders’s Humor // Bookforum talks with Phyllis Rose // A “Baseball” Interview with Josh Ostergaard // A “Yo” Is Lovely to Receive // Paris Review – Win, Lose, or Draw, Rowan Ricardo Phillips & Jonathan Wilson // How’s a U.S. Soccer Fan Supposed to Feel? // Blog Post: Sitting in a supermarket car park telling people about theatre // Time Inc. to Start 120 Sports, a Digital Network, With Pro Leagues // The Fun We’ve Had // [Weekly Review] : June 24, 2014, by Jeremy Keehn : Harper's Magazine // London's Garden bridge: 'It feels like we're trying to pull off a crime' // Julia Fierro: Success in publishing means being able to publish a next book // Why Did Borges Hate Soccer? // Spain crash out as irresistible Chile prove too much of a handful // Nine weeks to launch Vox — it’s easier to go downhill than up // How to Write 225 Words Per Minute With a Pen // Who cares if it's true? : Columbia Journalism Review // The 'C86' Compilation Oral History // A portrait of Europe’s white working class // We Got A Look Inside The 45-Day Planning Process That Goes Into Creating A Single Corporate Tweet // THE FLAP OVER TOM WOLFE: HOW REAL IS THE RETREAT FROM REALISM? // A New Birthday Suit for Bernard // Bicyclism // Betting on Quality: On One Story Collected // Marc Spitz’s Twee Review – Flavorwire // Lydia Davis’s Very Short Stories // Punctuated Equilibrium // Review: Thunderdome – The Institute of Jamais Vu, blip blip blip, Leeds // Why Audiences Hate Hard News—and Love Pretending Otherwise // ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ Has Changed a Lot in 200 Years // Medium Hires Tech Writer Steven Levy as It Moves From Platform to Publisher // Paris Review – Reality Bites, Jonathan Wilson // The Bite // Paris Review – Shades of Oranje, Rowan Ricardo Phillips // Six Seconds of Loopy Creativity, and Millions of Fans // With Online Video Offerings, the Establishment Plays the Upstart // Heil Hipster: The Young Neo-Nazis Trying to Put a Stylish Face on Hate // Brick by brick // What the New Kids on the Block Taught Me About Social Networks // For Email Newsletters, a Death Greatly Exaggerated // An Art Review in the Subway // [Weekly Review] : July 1, 2014, by Jesse Barron : Harper's Magazine // Ambient Genius // Defending the indefensible? 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