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As Alitalia reorganizes after bankruptcy, it is selling 180 paintings, drawings, prints and other works that once adorned its first-class cabins.

If you're in Milan anytime between now and February 14, 2010, I highly recommend that you check out octogenarian avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama's exhibit at the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea. Kusama lives in a mental hospital in Tokyo, but she's still a prolific producer of art filled with dots...

Pascagoula, Mississippi is a favorite Fortean town, where the lore involves a mermaid, a "singing" river, mysterious abductions, and, my favorite, a Phantom Barber that terrorized residents in 1942. He apparently broke into ten homes and snipped the hair of sleeping women. Police eventually charged...

Under the Marina and the Diamonds moniker, Welsh songstress Marina Diamandis brings quirk back to pop music in an epic way. While skirting similar territory as fellow UK sensation Florence and the Machine, Marina emits a more playful persona — imbuing her own Kate Bush-isms with echoes of offbeat entertainers like Regina Spektor and Amanda Palmer. To [...] Related posts:

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PLASTIC SURGERY • The number of women requesting collagen injections for their feet has increased fivefold in the past year, according to doctors in England. The injections make heels less painful to wear. The procedure costs £240, or about...

My latest Guardian column, "Streaming will never stop downloading," argues against the idea that streaming can "solve the copyright problem" because "no copies are made." This is technically untrue, and the more we pretend it isn't, the worse it will get for us. First of all, while streaming music from Last.fm is a great way to listen to music you haven't discovered yet, there's no reason to believe that people will lose the urge to collect music. Indeed, the record industry seems to have forgotten the lesson of 70 years' worth of radio: people who hear songs they like often go on to acquire those songs for their personal collections. It's amazing to hear record industry executives deny...

To kick off its 40th-anniversary season, Playwrights Horizons announced Tuesday afternoon that it would produce Edward Albee's play "Me, Myself & I" in August.

A couple of months back, we reported that Animal Collective MVP Panda Bear would guest on Black Noise, the forthcoming album from German minimal dance producer (and Animal Collective remixer) Pantha Du Prince.

Now, "Stick to My Side", the Panda/Pantha collaboration, is up online. It's an icy, slowly percolating eight-minute tick-tock with a muffled, faraway vocal from Panda Bear. You can hear it at I Guess I'm Floating. UPDATE: Song has been removed

pagebreakRough Trade will release Black Noise on February 9 in the U.S. and February 8 in the UK. (It also features the track "The Splendour".) Panda Bear is also working on a new solo album of his...