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cultureboxCultureboxArts, entertainment, and more.2NA=1154&NC=1208&DI=4098&PS=58310&PI=7315cultureboxfalsefalsespacernotembeddedcultureboxComing Soon to a Shelf Near YouTroy Patterson1/123122/2202502/pattersont.gif4242http://img.slate.com/mediafalse20091119111359AMThursdayNovNovember1111/19/2009 4:13:59 PM63394226039373130420091119111359AMThursdayNovNovember1111/19/2009 4:13:59 PM63394226039373130420091119111359AMThursdayNovNovember1111/19/2009 4:13:59 PM633942260393731304false2008101711651PMFridayOctOctober1310/17/2008 5:16:51 PM6335984621100000002008101711651PMFridayOctOctober1310/17/2008 5:16:51 PM633598462110000000falseDo books really need Hollywood-style trailers?noComing Soon to a Shelf Near YouDo books really need Hollywood-style trailers?noThis month brings the publication of Eating Animals—a vegetarian's memoir and manifesto, a Peter Singer sort of guide to a Michael Pollan world, the third book by novelist Jonathan Safran Foer. In support of it, the author and his publisher have concocted a short Web video. When I watched it over dinner last night, it put me off my lamb shoulder chop (medium rare) only in its unpalatable tone, which is extremely cute and incredibly twee. It's but the latest reflection of the ways that such clips—"book trailers"—can reveal the hopes and fantasies of readers, writers, and publishers alike.truenotochyperlinkno2009111863039PMWednesdayNovNovember1811/18/2009 11:30:39 PM6339416583900000002009111863039PMWednesdayNovNovember1811/18/2009 11:30:39 PM633941658390000000cultureboxI Spend My Free Time With Dead PeopleAdrian ChenfalseThe strange hobby of graving.noI Spend My Free Time With Dead PeoplePeople whose hobby is visiting cemeteries and photographing graves.noNot long ago, I met a woman named Cara at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery. She led me to a computer kiosk tucked under a big gothic archway at the main entrance. The computer allows you to browse the names and resting places of the 560,000 people buried in Green-Wood's 478 acres. Cara entered a name into the search field—"Johansen, Mathias"—and pressed "locate." A map appeared with a red square indicating general burial location. She zoomed in to a hand-drawn plan of subdivided lots. Lot 38325 was marked with a red "X."truenotochyperlinkno2009102993620AMThursdayOctOctober910/29/2009 1:36:20 PM6339240578000000002009102993620AMThursdayOctOctober910/29/2009 1:36:20 PM633924057800000000cultureboxRoll Over, BeethovenChris Wilson1/123122/2202502/wilsonc.gif4242http://img.slate.com/mediafalse20091119105707AMThursdayNovNovember1011/19/2009 3:57:07 PM63394225027134837920091119105707AMThursdayNovNovember1011/19/2009 3:57:07 PM63394225027134837920091119105707AMThursdayNovNovember1011/19/2009 3:57:07 PM633942250271348379false2008101711707PMFridayOctOctober1310/17/2008 5:17:07 PM6335984622700000002008101711707PMFridayOctOctober1310/17/2008 5:17:07 PM633598462270000000falseHow Yamaha's new electronic piano improves upon a 300-year-old instrument.noRoll Over, BeethovenHow the AvantGrand, Yamaha's new electronic piano, improves upon a 300-year-old instrument.noThere are nine pianos squeezed into the back of Yamaha's music salon in the old Aeolian Building in New York, and between them they represent an abridged history of technology's assault on the instrument. Against the wall you'll find a majestic 9-foot grand and two of its 6-foot cousins—not an electric bone in their bodies. A few feet away is a modern player piano, the Disklavier Pro, which is still an acoustic piano but is outfitted with gadgets that can resurrect Art Tatum if you insert the correct 3½-inch floppy. (Think Darth Vader: still human but with a lot of gizmos for extra functionality.) And over by the door is the newest addition to the Yamaha family, the just-released AvantGrand. It doesn't even have strings.truenotochyperlinkno2009102855548PMWednesdayOctOctober1710/28/2009 9:55:48 PM6339234934800000002009102993048AMThursdayOctOctober910/29/2009 1:30:48 PM633924054480000000cultureboxWe Have a Winner!The results of Slate's Significant Objects contest.noWe Have a Winner!We have a winner! The results of Slate's Significant Objects contest.noEarlier this month, Slate teamed up with the Significant Objects project and offered our readers a challenge: Take a worthless object and give it value by writing a short story about why it's important. We chose the item for you, a small barbecue-sauce jar with a built-in brush, purchased at a thrift store in Meredith, N.H., for $0.75.truenotochyperlinkno20091027124459PMTuesdayOctOctober1210/27/2009 4:44:59 PM63392244299000000020091027124459PMTuesdayOctOctober1210/27/2009 4:44:59 PM633922442990000000cultureboxIs Lars von Trier a Misogynist?Jessica WinterfalseMaybe not!noIs Lars von Trier a Misogynist?Is Antichrist director Lars von Trier a misogynist?noOf the many festival awards and critics' prizes conferred on the films of Danish provocateur Lars von Trier, one of the oddest, and, to some minds, the most deserved, came earlier this year, when the Ecumenical Jury at Cannes—the same festival that gave von Trier's Dancer in the Dark its highest honor, the Palme d'Or, in 2000—handed his latest effort an ad-hoc prize for "most misogynist movie." In Antichrist (opening tomorrow in select theaters), a couple known as She and He (Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe) journey to a remote cabin in the woods after the death of their toddler son, only for the wife to descend into nymphomania, insanity, gruesome violence, and self-mutilation. Grisly and hysterical, Antichrist certainly can be interpreted as a screed against womankind—indeed, the film at times actively encourages this reading.truenotochyperlinkno2009102225623PMThursdayOctOctober1410/22/2009 6:56:23 PM6339182018300000002009102225623PMThursdayOctOctober1410/22/2009 6:56:23 PM633918201830000000200311442836PMTuesdayJanJanuary161/14/2003 9:28:36 PM631781585160000000200311442836PMTuesdayJanJanuary161/14/2003 9:28:36 PM631781585160000000falsetruefalsefalsefalsetruetrue20011018111443PMThursdayOctOctober2310/19/2001 3:14:43 AM631390436830000000200933064927AMMondayMarMarch63/30/2009 10:49:27 AM633739925670000000

cultureboxCultureboxArts, entertainment, and more.2NA=1154&NC=1208&DI=4098&PS=58310&PI=7315cultureboxfalsefalsespacernotembeddedcultureboxComing Soon to a Shelf Near YouTroy Patterson1/123122/2202502/pattersont.gif4242http://img.slate.com/mediafalse20091119111359AMThursdayNovNovember1111/19/2009 4:13:59 PM63394226039373130420091119111359AMThursdayNovNovember1111/19/2009 4:13:59 PM63394226039373130420091119111359AMThursdayNovNovember1111/19/2009 4:13:59 PM633942260393731304false2008101711651PMFridayOctOctober1310/17/2008 5:16:51 PM6335984621100000002008101711651PMFridayOctOctober1310/17/2008 5:16:51 PM633598462110000000falseDo books really need Hollywood-style trailers?noComing Soon to a Shelf Near YouDo books really need Hollywood-style trailers?noThis month brings the publication of Eating Animals—a vegetarian's memoir and manifesto, a Peter Singer sort of guide to a Michael Pollan world, the third book by novelist Jonathan Safran Foer. In support of it, the author and his publisher have concocted a short Web video. When I watched it over dinner last night, it put me off my lamb shoulder chop (medium rare) only in its unpalatable tone, which is extremely cute and incredibly twee. It's but the latest reflection of the ways that such clips—"book trailers"—can reveal the hopes and fantasies of readers, writers, and publishers alike.truenotochyperlinkno2009111863039PMWednesdayNovNovember1811/18/2009 11:30:39 PM6339416583900000002009111863039PMWednesdayNovNovember1811/18/2009 11:30:39 PM633941658390000000cultureboxI Spend My Free Time With Dead PeopleAdrian ChenfalseThe strange hobby of graving.noI Spend My Free Time With Dead PeoplePeople whose hobby is visiting cemeteries and photographing graves.noNot long ago, I met a woman named Cara at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery. She led me to a computer kiosk tucked under a big gothic archway at the main entrance. The computer allows you to browse the names and resting places of the 560,000 people buried in Green-Wood's 478 acres. Cara entered a name into the search field—"Johansen, Mathias"—and pressed "locate." A map appeared with a red square indicating general burial location. She zoomed in to a hand-drawn plan of subdivided lots. Lot 38325 was marked with a red "X."truenotochyperlinkno2009102993620AMThursdayOctOctober910/29/2009 1:36:20 PM6339240578000000002009102993620AMThursdayOctOctober910/29/2009 1:36:20 PM633924057800000000cultureboxRoll Over, BeethovenChris Wilson1/123122/2202502/wilsonc.gif4242http://img.slate.com/mediafalse20091119105707AMThursdayNovNovember1011/19/2009 3:57:07 PM63394225027134837920091119105707AMThursdayNovNovember1011/19/2009 3:57:07 PM63394225027134837920091119105707AMThursdayNovNovember1011/19/2009 3:57:07 PM633942250271348379false2008101711707PMFridayOctOctober1310/17/2008 5:17:07 PM6335984622700000002008101711707PMFridayOctOctober1310/17/2008 5:17:07 PM633598462270000000falseHow Yamaha's new electronic piano improves upon a 300-year-old instrument.noRoll Over, BeethovenHow the AvantGrand, Yamaha's new electronic piano, improves upon a 300-year-old instrument.noThere are nine pianos squeezed into the back of Yamaha's music salon in the old Aeolian Building in New York, and between them they represent an abridged history of technology's assault on the instrument. Against the wall you'll find a majestic 9-foot grand and two of its 6-foot cousins—not an electric bone in their bodies. A few feet away is a modern player piano, the Disklavier Pro, which is still an acoustic piano but is outfitted with gadgets that can resurrect Art Tatum if you insert the correct 3½-inch floppy. (Think Darth Vader: still human but with a lot of gizmos for extra functionality.) And over by the door is the newest addition to the Yamaha family, the just-released AvantGrand. It doesn't even have strings.truenotochyperlinkno2009102855548PMWednesdayOctOctober1710/28/2009 9:55:48 PM6339234934800000002009102993048AMThursdayOctOctober910/29/2009 1:30:48 PM633924054480000000cultureboxWe Have a Winner!The results of Slate's Significant Objects contest.noWe Have a Winner!We have a winner! The results of Slate's Significant Objects contest.noEarlier this month, Slate teamed up with the Significant Objects project and offered our readers a challenge: Take a worthless object and give it value by writing a short story about why it's important. We chose the item for you, a small barbecue-sauce jar with a built-in brush, purchased at a thrift store in Meredith, N.H., for $0.75.truenotochyperlinkno20091027124459PMTuesdayOctOctober1210/27/2009 4:44:59 PM63392244299000000020091027124459PMTuesdayOctOctober1210/27/2009 4:44:59 PM633922442990000000cultureboxIs Lars von Trier a Misogynist?Jessica WinterfalseMaybe not!noIs Lars von Trier a Misogynist?Is Antichrist director Lars von Trier a misogynist?noOf the many festival awards and critics' prizes conferred on the films of Danish provocateur Lars von Trier, one of the oddest, and, to some minds, the most deserved, came earlier this year, when the Ecumenical Jury at Cannes—the same festival that gave von Trier's Dancer in the Dark its highest honor, the Palme d'Or, in 2000—handed his latest effort an ad-hoc prize for "most misogynist movie." In Antichrist (opening tomorrow in select theaters), a couple known as She and He (Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe) journey to a remote cabin in the woods after the death of their toddler son, only for the wife to descend into nymphomania, insanity, gruesome violence, and self-mutilation. Grisly and hysterical, Antichrist certainly can be interpreted as a screed against womankind—indeed, the film at times actively encourages this reading.truenotochyperlinkno2009102225623PMThursdayOctOctober1410/22/2009 6:56:23 PM6339182018300000002009102225623PMThursdayOctOctober1410/22/2009 6:56:23 PM633918201830000000200311442836PMTuesdayJanJanuary161/14/2003 9:28:36 PM631781585160000000200311442836PMTuesdayJanJanuary161/14/2003 9:28:36 PM631781585160000000falsetruefalsefalsefalsetruetrue20011018111443PMThursdayOctOctober2310/19/2001 3:14:43 AM631390436830000000200933064927AMMondayMarMarch63/30/2009 10:49:27 AM633739925670000000

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