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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.
Full Story“New research led by Dr Daniel Mitchell at the University of Warwick’s Warwick Medical School has found a novel relationship between high glucose and the immune system in humans”: Longtime E-Verser Dan Mitchell Praised in Several Newspapers
Doctors have long known that diabetics are prone to getting infections, but they couldn’t say with any certainty why these patients are so vulnerable to microbial invaders. Now British researchers think they have solved the mystery. They conducted a series of lab experiments that suggest elevated levels of glucose in the bloodstream – a hallmark of diabetes – inhibit the ability of the body’s immune system to detect and fight bacterial and fungal infections.
Full Story“SUCH ROOT SATISFACTION . . .”: SIGNED LIMITED TÊTE-BÊCHE EDITION OF THE SECOND BOOK BY DAVID YEZZI AND ERNEST HILBERT
SOLD OUT! THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ORDERED A COPY
Full StoryBethany’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?
Full Story“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 [...]
Full StoryTop 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.
Full Story“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.
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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.
Full Story“When You Ride ALONE You Ride With Hitler” and Other World War Two Propaganda Posters
Dark Roasted Blend says “During World War Two, propaganda posters became something of an art form and some examples are very well known even today. It’s been claimed that truth is often the first casualty of war, and it is very interesting to see how the events of the time were depicted in this selection of posters and leaflets from both sides of the conflict.”
Full StoryTop 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).
Full StoryTop 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
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Full StoryTop 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 [...]
Full StorySometimes 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 [...]
Full StoryTop 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.
Full Story“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 [...]
Full StoryInvasion 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 [...]
Full StoryBethany’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 [...]
Full Story“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).
Full StoryTop Five People Who Died Just Before Fame Struck (including Two Lar[r]sons)
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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 [...]
Full StoryTop 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 [...]
Full Story“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 [...]
Full Story“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. [...]
Full StoryTop 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.
Full StoryBethany’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).
Full StoryBethany 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.
Full StoryPimp My Axe!: Sixty Sonnets Guitar
An E-Verser sends in a picture of a Sixty Sonnets sticker that made it onto a guitar. Rock on!
Full StoryTop 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 [...]
Full StoryOff 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 [...]
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