http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/03/deconstructing-eric-owen-moss-construction-manual.html
A wolverine (but hopefully not the last) has died in Michigan (PMD, March 3 Extra Edition):
http://www.wtol.com/global/story.asp?s=12143672
(Hat tip to Bill Crider.)
The odious Hal Turner got another mistrial (PMD, March 4):
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/03/12/hal-turner-wins-another-mistrial-decides-to-mix-it-up-for-third/
Todd McCarthy, the ousted Variety film critic, has a new part-time gig as part of the selection committee for the New York Film Festival (but this was actually in process before he was fired) (PMD, March 8):
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/ousted-at-variety-critic-heads-to-new-york-film-festival/
Connoisseurs of literary feuds (PMD, January 10) will enjoy the fact that major contemporary Irish playwrights Conor McPherson and Martin McDonagh apparently hate each other's guts:
http://playgoer.blogspot.com/2010/03/quote-of-day_12.html
Connoisseurs of literary hoaxes (PMD, March 3 Extra Edition) will enjoy the fact that Ulli Beier fabricated the Yoruba plays of "Obotunde Ijimere" that he "translated" for the Heinemann African Writers Series:
http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/201003b.htm#qz9
{feuilleton} has been overdosing on the beautiful images of the German Art Nouveau periodical Jugend (PMD, February 26):
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2010/03/05/jugend-1896/
Like me, Bret Israel of Culture Monster discovered Mahler and other composers through marvelous LPs of the Sixties (PMD, January 14):
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/03/how-i-discovered-mahler.html
Tom Sutpen at If Charlie Parker was a Gunslinger... catches an image from one of my favorite Fifties efforts, Phil Karlson's The Scarface Mob, the pilot for The Untouchables (PMD, January 13; May 1, 2009):
http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/2010/03/seminal-image-996.html
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