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Top Five Biopics that Depict Wrenching Struggles of Women Artists

Ever heard you have to suffer for your art? Well, Deborah gives us some women artists who suffered more than their share.

“SUCH ROOT SATISFACTION . . .”: SIGNED LIMITED TÊTE-BÊCHE EDITION OF THE SECOND BOOK BY DAVID YEZZI AND ERNEST HILBERT

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Bethany’s Top Five Important but not Immediately Obvious No-nos on a First Date: Recommendations from a Straight Woman to Straight Men

Well, who doesn’t like some free advice?

“There were ghosts in the eyes / Of all the boys you sent away / They haunt this dusty beach road / In the skeleton frames of burned out chevrolets”: Heading Down the Shore to Sea Isle City!

Share Lynn and I decided to get away for the weekend to Sea Isle City, so here is the most classic of classic Jersey shore songs to get you through the weekend. The screen door slams. Mary’s dress sways. Like a vision she dances across the porch As the radio plays. Roy Orbison singing for [...]

Top Five Philadelphia Apocalypses

Philadelphia has been described as a “stabilized ruin,” which is true and adds to its rough charm. But it also seems to be ground zero for a number of end-of-the-world scenarios. Let’s have a look at a few.

“Os Buzios” by Ana Moura

Ana Moura (born 1979 in Santarém, Portugal) is a Portuguese fado singer, and the youngest fadista to be nominated for a Dutch Edison Award.

Bethany’s Top Five Top Five (or More) Lists I Wish I’d Written, But Didn’t!

As prolific as she is, our senior staff writer Bethany still sometimes gets a little green when she sees the lists other (lesser) talents come up with. Here are a few.

Top Five Recent Romantic Comedies that in which a Couple has Kid Via Sperm Donor/One-night Stand

We’ll bet you never realized what a tried and true formula this is. Check out some of the top examples of Rom Coms where romance blooms from unplanned pregnancies (this is fantasy, after all).

Top Five Songs about Interracial Romance

Share 5. “My Humps” by the Black Eyed Peas 4. “White Boys/Black Boys” from the musical Hair 3. “Brown Sugar” by the Rolling Stones 2. “China Girl” by David Bowie 1. “Vanilla Ice Cream” by Stephen Lynch

Top Five List of Top Ten Lists

Share Here at E-Verse, we get a little obsessed with lists. Our Top Fives are a staple and certainly more efficient than the top tens or twenty lists. Who has so much time these days to read a top twenty? TIme and Newsweek have been big on lists over the past few years and it [...]

Sometimes Double Rainbows are Really, Really Exciting

Share Here at E-Verse, we get excited over all sorts of things. A good book will obviously send us into a tizzy. Double Rainbows though, probably haven’t yielded a great deal of wild euphoria that we should be showing towards them. If you haven’t seen anything about the Yosemitebear Meme it all stemmed from one [...]

Top Five Roles in which Julianne Moore Plays a Troubled Mid-20th-Century Housewife

Typecasting? Maybe it’s to soon to tell. Maybe she simply excels at that sort of role, a smoldering woman in the supposedly stifling Eisenhower years.

“Empty Houses”: Ernest Hilbert Remember Rachel Wetzsteon

Share The web magazine Able Muse recently posted a number of eloquent and moving tributes to the late poet Rachel Wetzsteon. You may read remembrances by Gregory Dowling, David Mason, A.E. Stallings, Rachel Hadas, David Yezzi, Melvin Jules Bukiet, Lorna Knowles Blake, and Robert E. Clark by clicking here. “Empty Houses”: Ernest Hilbert Remember Rachel [...]

Invasion USA: Top Five Movies/TV Shows Depicting the US Being Invaded by Other Countries or by Aliens

Share 5. War of the Worlds: The radio program, as narrated by Orson Wells and based on H.G. Wells’ novel, was the original invasion USA event, since many thought he was narrating actual events, rather than a fictional account. But Spielberg’s 2005 adaptation does a good job of showing the terror of an invading force [...]

Bethany’s Top Five Mythic Works about the Confederacy

Share Confederate History Month has been declared! It’s in April. There seems to be a growing trend to celebrate this holiday, and it is becoming more controversial, too. But I say let’s take a look at some of the great and glorious achievements of the Confederacy, and judge for ourselves whether or not it’s a [...]

“With increasing official recognition, her abstractions, pseudo-philosophizing, self-importance, and centerless long lines have completely spun out of control”: Check out Anis Shivani’s “Fifteen Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers”

Are the writers receiving the major awards and official recognition really the best writers today? Or are they overrated mediocrities with little claim to recognition by posterity? The question is harder than ever to answer today, yet it is a worthwhile exercise to attempt (along with identifying underrated writers not favored by bureaucracy).

Top Five People Who Died Just Before Fame Struck (including Two Lar[r]sons)

Share 5. Adrienne Shelly: She wrote, directed, and acted in the movie Waitress (2007), which would become her most successful film to date after years of making highly regarded but little-seen indie films. Waitress was her first foray into the limelight. She was murdered several months before its release. 4. Sylvia Plath: She enjoyed minor [...]

Top Five Examples of the Insidious Creep of Blue/orange Art into Our Lives

Share Wait, what are we talking about? OK, in sum: For various reasons, Hollywood has been increasingly using the blue/orange pallet in films. This kind of adjustment is easy now that everything is digital. It’s particularly pronounced in advertisements and movie trailers. You may not have noticed this yet, but once it’s been pointed out [...]

“The types and symbols of Eternity, / Of first and last, and midst, and without end,” or, Rocky Mountain High

Share In addition to giving a reading and delivering a critical paper out in Colorado, I found time to get out into some back country (though it would be more honest to say I was gently hauled out into it). The first day I climbed with poets Charles Doersch and David Yezzi up to the [...]

“Well Known Antiquarian?”: Hilbert Name-Dropped in Forbes Article about Chelsea Clinton’s Pre-Wedding Shopping

Share I just returned from many mountains and martinis in Colorado to find I’ve been cited as a “well known antiquarian” by Forbes. I’ve rarely encountered anyone described as an “antiquarian” outside of an H.P. Lovecraft story. Strange. I hear my colleagues had a good laugh about that over cocktails on the terrace last week. [...]

Top Five Sets of People who Died on the Same Day

We did people born on the same day, same year. Now it’s time for people who died on the same day, same year.

Bethany’s Top Five Flat-chested TV Actresses Who Would Never Make it Today

In these days of routine breast implants it’s pretty standard to see quite large breasted women, and getting increasingly rare to see women with smaller cup sizes on TV and in movies. I was recently watching some old TV and shocked at the differences: you just so seldom see such flat chested women on TV today (with the exception of Debra Messing).

Bethany Gives us Top Five Strange (Yes, Strange!) Sexual Fetishes I Have Heard About

Doubtless there are many I haven’t heard about, but here are the five strangest.

Top Five Recent Examples of “Gingerism,” that is, Prejudice Against Redheads

Share 5. Musical artist M.I.A. just made this video dramatizing racism by featuring violence against redheads. 4. Kick a Ginger Day: Inspired by a South Park episode centered around promoting prejudice against those with red hair, some kids started a Facebook group called “Kick a Ginger Day.” Then, inspired by this, a bunch of kids [...]

Off to the Rockies!

Share By the time this post goes live I will have finished a late-night “beer” reading at Earth and managed to get up at 5AM to fly out for Denver. I may be yonder over your head at this very moment. From Denver I’ll be driven by a genuine madman five hours up to Crested [...]

Top Five Famous Couples with Similar Names

At least they don’t look alike, most of the time . . .

“Written art meets liquid art” at Earth, Bread, and Brewery: Ernest Hilbert with Teresa Leo and Christine Klocek-Lim

Share Earth Bread & Brewery: Where written art meets liquid art 7136 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia (Mt. Airy) Wednesday, July 28th 2010 Time: 9-11pm HOSTED BY THINK JOURNAL EDITOR CHRISTINE YURICK Time: 9-11pm Featuring Philadelphia poets: Ernest Hilbert, Teresa Leo, and Christine Klocek-Lim, with an open mic session starting at 10pm. Ernest Hilbert’s debut collection Sixty [...]

Top Five Notorious Japanese Murderers

Top Five Types of Female Leads in Romantic Comedies

We did the male leads last week. Now let’s have a look at their female counterparts.

“The Great Poetry Purge of 2010″: Daniel Nester Investigates the Poetry Scandal at the Paris Review

Share Daniel Nester rakes some muck over at We Who Are About to Die: Picture this: you have your poems accepted by The Paris Review. Such an acceptance can mark the start of a great career, lead to a book deal or to be anthologized, or perhaps solidify a reputation in the small world this [...]