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century are to be found in the celebrated broadsheets produced by the Mexico City printing shop of editor, writer, and dramatist Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (1850-1917), with accompanying cartoon illustrations created by the legendary printmaker José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913). These broadsheets were printed on coarse paper and sold cheaply for widespread public consumption. They were the penny press of the day, frequently compared to our contemporary tabloids. Lurid, melodramatic, and eye-catching (though not tainted by quite the same kink of today’s scandal rags) they were also soundly relevant socially as well as potently satirical, often dispensing indictments of widespread corruption and misery suffered by Mexicans under el Porfiriato, the regime of president-cum-dictator Porfirio Díaz. The Library of Congress holds a large collection of original examples of these inexpensive gacetas callejeras (street gazettes). The stories they offer are sensational, tragic,...

Source: Numéro Cinq ( numerocinqmagazine.com )

A few months ago, I was in the Apple store, listening to my husband, the Mac geek talking to the hipster Mac guy who happened to have the biggest gauges in his earlobes I have ever seen.  And I know this shows my total un-hipness, but every time I see someone with plugs, I think— As God is my witness, Hipster Person, you will regret those plugs one day. It might not be tomorrow or next year. It might not come until you're walking the beaches of Florida with your metal detector just riding out the hours until you can make the early bird seating at 4:00 p.m. for your boiled beets and cottage cheese, but there will come a day when you will say, "What in the name of all things remotely sensible was I thinking?"  It's like the mullet. No one and I mean no one has ever said in the history of mullet hair, "Gee, I sure wish...

Source: Laundry Hurts My Feelings ( laundryhurtsmyfeelings.blogspot.com )

08/16/13, via Mintpress News: www.mintpressnews.com

Yet while some states are implementing new incentives, states like Arizona are turning back the clock. The Arizona Public Service electricity utility is looking at two measures that would weaken incentives for solar users. The argument on the side of ...

07/29/13, via TIME: newsfeed.time.com

His new app, Walk Up! Alarm Clock, aims to solve that problem once and forever. Currently available only for the iPhone and iPad, the $0.99 program uses the device's built-in accelerometer to monitor your movements and keeps ringing until you've taken ...

07/25/13, via The Independent: www.independent.co.uk

Strong transgressive urge to push fake but visibly authentic-looking sticks of dynamite, alarm clock, trailing wires, etc, into lip of the rucksack that's bashed into you on the Tube once too often. Twitter: @JohnHenryWalsh. Robert Fisk on Algeria. Buy ...

08/09/13, via Bangkok Post: www.bangkokpost.com

Further delight your palate with sashimi, seared salmon sushi and Dynamite spider roll. Signature My very effective alarm clock to wake me up before rooster's crow to go to school on weekdays and in time for Channel 9 cartoons on weekends. - My ...

08/13/13, via Businessweek: www.businessweek.com

Wei Qian perked up at work on a Monday in May when she stumbled across an ad for an online auction offering dinner in Beijing ... 26 minutes were left before placing her first bid. The price jumped rapidly as 17 people sparred for the dinner.

08/13/13, via technologytell.com: www.technologytell.com

At any rate, those viewing the premiere, binge-watchers or not, were treated to such a dynamite episode that chances are they’ll be returning for the rest of the season.

08/08/13, via comicsbeat.com

Quest’s examples are quirky, paintings, plays and of course, cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse, who, it is often noted, prompted much of the extension legislation as Disney faced anxiety over the ticking clock since Mickey’s 1928 debut.

08/06/13, via Press Herald: www.pressherald.com

And they may also help investigators find out who built the deadly homemade bombs that exploded at the Boston Marathon on Monday. Investigators found fragments of BBs and nails, possibly contained in a pressure cooker, said Richard DesLauriers, the FBI ...

07/25/13, via Daily Mail: www.dailymail.co.uk

For that amount of money they will own one of the most picturesque retreats ... self-generating power, sophisticated telecommunications and private airstrip to touch down the family jet. The 5,000 sq ft manor comes with spa, gym, infinity ...