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Jesse Fox Mayshark

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03/01/2010 - 12/16/2011

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John Mark Wiggers: "It Is About Trust.” Updated 12/21/2011 at 10:21 p.m.
John Mark Wiggers, who is 40, has shaggy hair, a trim beard, and an amiable manner that helps explain why many of his parishioners know him as Father Dude. Sitting at Java in the Old City, which he calls his ...
Considering 'Tintin' in the 21st Century Published 12/21/2011 at 10:56 a.m.
The world Tintin inhabits and represents, seen from a modern adult perspective, seems cramped and problematic. But I read them when I was 8 or 9 years old, when finding a realm of endless adventure—of sunken ships and spy rings ...
Cheers, Y'All Published 12/14/2011 at 4:28 p.m.
While we still drink plenty of toasts, we have somewhat lost the art of toast-making. It used to be a popular form of verse and entertainment, with partygoers competing to top each other in puns and rhymes. These days, apart ...
Kate Bush: '50 Words for Snow' Published 12/14/2011 at 10:42 a.m.
It may be true, as one British critic sniffed, that Bush no longer knows how to write pop songs. More to the point, I’d say that the 53-year-old singer no longer cares.
Carolina Chocolate Drops Add a Beatboxer and a Cellist, But Keep Playing That Old-Time Music Published 12/07/2011 at 10:57 a.m.
Most bands who win the Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album do not turn around and hire a beatboxer as their newest member. And most bands who top the Billboard Bluegrass chart for seven straight weeks are not likely to ...
'The Descendants' Finds Glumness in Paradise Published 12/07/2011 at 10:41 a.m.
Another Alexander Payne movie, another befuddled male protagonist.
Local Credit Unions Benefit From Recent Anti-Bank Sentiments Published 11/30/2011 at 12:58 p.m.
When several national banks instituted new fees on ATM cards—making you pay for the privilege of spending your own money—many consumers revolted. But they didn’t just send angry e-mails—they moved their accounts to local credit unions. Jesse Fox Mayshark takes ...
'The Skin I Live In' Turns Almodóvar’s Talents Toward Horror Published 11/23/2011 at 1:52 p.m.
As a whole, The Skin I Live In is too inventive and well-made to dismiss outright, and much too flawed to admire.
Too Many Organisms, Not Enough Scientists Published 11/16/2011 at 3:34 p.m.
One persistent challenge for the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory in the Great Smoky Mountains has been finding people to do the basic counting. The expertise to correctly identify dozens of species of a particular organism, or to recognize a new ...
17,000 Species in the Great Smoky Mountains. And Counting. Published 11/16/2011 at 3:31 p.m. 1 Comment
More than a decade ago, scientists in the Great Smoky Mountains set themselves a daunting task: Count every kind of plant and creature living in the national park. Since then, the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory has nearly doubled the number ...