BEAT THIS FOR COOL:
The Project Repat Kickstarter Video from Project Repat on Vimeo, aiding Boston NFPs: Newton-Tanzania Collaborative (www.newtontanzania.org) and Smallbean (www.smallbean.org).
BLURB OF THE MONTH: “Never, I repeat never, in the annals of entertainment has one man devoted himself more dutifully, studied more scrupulously, and documented so diligently these bizarre and astonishing feats of physical and mental derring-do than the man they call ‘America’s Scholar of the Unusual’–magician, author, bon vivant, raconteur, prestidigitator extraordinaire, and a personal friend to whom I no longer owe a favor–Ricky Jay.”
—Steve Martin, for Collection of Curious Characters
OLD HAND, NEW BYLINE: “And why does it seem better and better to us as the albums progressed and the music became more and more decadent and self-indulgent?” Josef Patchen on “Citizen Steely Dan,” in the Augusta Art Examiner.com