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'Nosferatu,' longform by Patrick Radden Keefe and Derek Jenkins' Mixcloud mixes

This week: F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, reporting of Patrick Radden Keefe for the New Yorker and Mixcloud mixes from Arkansas expat Derek Jenkins.
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Free beer, 'New Flame,' 'Serial' the podcast and an Ohio mixtape

Sarah Koenig, a longtime producer on "This American Life," is hosting a new podcast called "Serial" spun off from that show, the difference being that each episode here is a chapter in a single larger story which they'll tell over the course of a season — a kind of heavily reported, audio miniseries. Four episodes have been released so far and they've been great, really gripping and well-produced.
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Movers, mushrooms, tornado warnings, The Juan MacLean and a George Jones shower curtain

I went to South on Main last night for the first concert in the Oxford American Jazz Series, a band called The Bad Plus. Before they took the stage, an announcement was made that a tornado warning was in effect for the area, and that we should all immediately take shelter. You could hear all the phones in the room buzzing with the same warning. I couldn't hear what it sounded like outside, but there were sheets of rain coming down and the trees were bending over.

Lucinda Williams, 'Problematic,' Women in Clothes, Aby Ngana Diop and Momma Tried Magazine

This week, a hearty recommend for Lucinda Williams' lovely song "Sweet Ol' World," which she wrote as a response to the suicide of the Arkansas poet Frank Stanford, who shot himself three times in the heart in Fayetteville in June 1978.
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Arkansas Rugby, Van Lang Cuisine, Sam Lipsyte, the Civil War and a very important laptop fund

I doubt you’re buying writer and Raiders fan Steve Almond’s argument (or his book)—neatly encapsulated by the writer and Seminoles fan Diane Roberts here—that it’s time we stopped watching football altogether.

Staff Picks: Boulevard Bread, Bolaño, Bernice Garden, Bill Callahan and the Bible

I'm kind of a nut on vampire films. For one thing, none of them — from "Nosferatu" to "Twilight" — are really about bloodsucking. They're always about something else: xenophobia, fear of having your metaphorical, jingoistic bloodlines polluted by a menacing foreign Other, hangups about sex, guilt about living so well in the West while countless millions in the Third World get paid pennies an hour to make Nike shoes and cute clothes for The Gap (drink up, you vampire you).
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The Humping Pact, Accounting classes, Etouffee recipes, the New Yorker and a mixtape tribute to ourselves

Okay, first off NSFW. Well, maybe safe if you work at the Arkansas Times. But generally: not safe for work. Here you go.

Oxford American, football season, Sturgill Simpson and homemade Thai curry

Through my own brand of subterfuge and back-alley espionage, I managed last week to secure an early copy of the Oxford American's new Fall issue, which officially appears on newsstands Sept. 1. Not the Matthew McConaughey one — that one's coming in December.
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Art online, ILoveMakkonnen, Rosalia’s sunset tea, Fleetwood Mac

A belated edition of Arkansas Times Recommends includes a possible jam of the summer, loose and jovial illustrations, Fleetwood Mac worship and the super-chill Pavlovian response to cherries.

Hawaiian Music, Sci-fi, Children's Books and Weekend Movie Picks. Plus tiny flies walking in Istanbul.

For a span of two to four years I lived on the Big Island of Hawaii. Who can really say how long it was? It was during my early twenties, anyhow. At some point I moved away, excited to renew my relationship with the mainland and explore new forms of escapism that didn’t involve so much ukulele
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Stone's Throw Brewing, George Melies films, Outkast nostalgia and James Brown drummers

I hate craft beer. Well hate is too strong a word. But I'd rather drink Busch. Esoteric hops, crazy yeasts and brewing alchemy mean little to me. Give me a lager. Cheap is good. Cold is good.

Jeff Goldblum, Walt Whitman's ghost, Giant Squid hunters and Hillcrest Artisan Meats

Go to Hillcrest Artisan Meats. Ask for a couple of chunks of the teres major. It's a little known cut of beef shoulder. It's as tender as tenderloin, but a lot more flavorful. Each individual piece is about 6 to 8 ounces. One per person should do.
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