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Good morning and welcome to Daily 25. Your horoscope: Sustenance matters more than novelty.

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Around the Web:

Green Dot author Madeleine Gray: ‘Chosen family is big in the queer community’

Should we sell our kidneys?

‘I want them to feel the emotion’: the pop artist capturing the excitement of the Super Bowl

Around Town:

Today (1/25): January Run Club. Tracksmith Trackhouse. 185 Franklin St. Brooklyn.

Tomorrow: Towheads plus Q&A with Shannon Plumb and Derek Cianfrance. Roxy Cinema. 2 Avenue of the Americas. Manhattan.

Tuesday: Virginia Evans and Patrick Ryan. McNally Jackson Seaport. 4 Fulton St. Manhattan.

Wednesday: Andre Howard: Hitting the Head. Rizzoli Bookstore. 1133 Broadway.

Wednesday: Short Cuts 35MM. Roxy Cinema. 2 Avenue of the Americas. Manhattan.

The Spinning Room: Mikado

Recently clicked: Velvet Shadows, Happy Hobo, Madlib Music Library, Book Club, Soft 60.

The last word: Late coffee

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Recent Notes

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Photo by Yelena Yemchuk. Colorized.

Recent Articles

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Autotune and the Aesthetic of Antihumanism

An experimental computer-colorized image based on a black and white photo by Phil Stern of Rita Moreno during a rehearsal for ‘West side Story,’ 1961.

Auto Tune The argument against the mass use of Auto Tune is not about favoring “technical facility over inspiration,” as Alex Pappademas monstrously wrote in... Read More

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How To Read a Book

Detail of Henri Matisse’s ‘Marguerite Reading‘ (1906)

Many people go to book stores, join book clubs, and claim to still read those things. Reading, like cooking, is an activity with degrees of... Read More

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The Big Man: A Snowy Story

Via Fresco

Leif Fairhair was a Viking known as The Big Man. His ticket to fame was having been born sometime in the 1020s and still being... Read More

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What to Do This Winter in New York

Chinatown, New York. iPhone photo by Eric Van Nynatten

Things happening in New York this Winter. Art-wise. See the newly restored Frick, now open. Charlie Stein: Almost Human at LOHAUS SOMINSKY, at 62 White... Read More