The feedbacks regarding to Vassar’s new design have been positive. This week we’re showing off the gorgeous Chapel. I loved the shot when I was comping up the design and knew it will make it to the layout.

Freeway’s “Big Spender” with Jay-Z and Jermaine Dupri

Kanye West’s “Good Life” with T-Pain

Lupe Fiasco’s “Dumb It Down“

The “Pussy Monster” who makes the ladies scream.

NPR profiles the father of bebop Charlie Parker:

It’s safe to say that without Charlie Parker, the music we now call bebop might never have existed. While other musicians in New York — Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Bud Powell among them — were creating the musical building blocks that would later become part of bebop, it was Parker’s innovative phrasing on alto saxophone that provided the glue that brought it all together as a new jazz revolution.

Check out part 1 of the prgram.

In his “Three Chopsticks,” New Yorker‘s “Singapore Journal,” Calvin Trillin writes:

According to what’s listed on a widely sold souvenir T-shirt emblazoned “Singapore—A Fine City,” the acts that can bring you a serious fine include not only gum-chewing and littering and smoking and spitting but also carrying a durian on a public conveyance.

Get the fuck outta here!

David Sedaris’ hysterical “Tasteless“:

One of the things they promise when you quit smoking is that food will regain its flavor. Taste buds paved beneath decades of tar will spring back to life, and an entire sense will be restored. I thought it would be like putting on a pair of glasses—something dramatic that makes you say, “Whoa!”—but it’s been six months now, and I have yet to notice any significant change.

High Priest’s “Pitfalls”

Jonathan Yeo made a portrait of Bush using porn materials:

Yeo was commissioned to undertake a portrait of US President George W Bush, but was later told his services were not required. He decided to continue the commission on his own…

“CEO pay: 364 times more than workers“

How could an article on nail salons failed to include Vietnamese? We run this shit.