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The Goodman Theatre recently announced an ambitious addition to its 2015-2016 season: a five hour adaption of Robert Bolano's novel, 2666, underwritten by a former monk with the good fortune of possessing a $153 million lottery jackpot. [ more › ]

Singaporean artist Lee Wen made Ping-Pong Go Round, an interactive art installation. It's a modular ping pong table that allows several people to play at the same time. The set is portable, so he's taken it across southeast Asia and Australia, inviting people to play this loopy variant of the game. Most recently, he exhibited it at Art Basel Hong Kong.

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If you saw Jaimie Warren's Horrorfest 2015 in the January issue of VICE magazine, and wished Harry Potter technology existed in the real world so the pictures could spring to life, your wish just came true. Here are animated GIFs Jaimie made for us based on B horror movies. Enjoy and share with your coolest friends.

See Jaimie Warren's previous contributions to VICE here.

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The Artiphone Instrument 1 is meant to be a new breed of expressive digital instrument.

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We get emails….

“Dear Cute Overload: We love your site! It’s the first one we look at every day. But we have a problem- not nearly enough hedgehogs. Please post this clip.” -Richard F., Ft. Lee, NJ.”

Mr. Feder, we’re happy to oblige. Sorry about that.

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And they give adorable shoutouts to their moms

Absolutely got some Rule #42 here. “Ears that flop over a leetle beet are cute.” (Imgur.)

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- Kazuhiro Hori

A lot of people of my generation first heard of Somalia in the early 1990s, during its civil war. What I didn't know was that Somalia is also known as the Nation of Poets, where being slick with words and nice with language is an honored tradition, intrinsic to the people. Skilled poets hold prestigious roles within the culture, from the royal family on down...

Artist Shani Ha placed this unique interactive art installation at a street corner bistro in New York City. It's called Table for Two. Half of the two-person table is inside the restaurant. The other half is outside. If you sit down at one end, you can choose to interact with the person on the otherside or just look at your own reflection in the glass.

The project is a commentary on how we can be alone in the midst of so many people. Ha writes:

New York is a very crowded city yet so many people are alone. In a city where more than half of the population is single, everyone seems eager to meet someone even if we keep on ignoring people around us, in the real life. Dating/meeting apps and websites are exploding. Most of our interactions happen behind a screen via texts, e-mails, Skype, Tinder etc. Virtual communication is slowly taking the place of our human interactions, accentuating egocentricity over empathy.

Screens have invaded our everyday life becoming our main medium to communicate. In the same way, the glass that crosses through the table and separates the two seats becomes a screen that both connects and isolates, and through which people get to communicate spontaneously.

The installation questions our relationship to otherness, social-isolation and everyday co-presence situations in New York. By inviting the public to use the piece and sit at the table; the artist allows experimental forms of interaction and communication between viewers; passer-by and clients.

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Four adorable Pugs in pom pom hats and sweaters go sledding! Easily the cutest thing you'll see all day!

The post Cute Pugs Go Sledding | Video appeared first on A Place to Love Dogs.

Spock may have been half-human and half-Vulcan, but Leonard Nimoy was all Jew. His parents were Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, and they raised him in the Orthodox tradition — and that meant regular visits to his local synagogue in the Boston area. When he was a boy, he had a particularly ... More »

Useful news: The Orthodox Union is working on putting a kosher stamp on medicinal pot.

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Some people might feel sorry for themselves in this situation

Puppy don’t care

Puppy’s got stuff to do

Puppy’s got places to be

Puppy’s got people to bark at and things to sniff.

Gabrielle Herbst: “People go to the opera to step out of their ordinary lives, and I was interested in the symbols and archetypes that opera’s stories have, and how people come to terms with their own lives in terms of these very intense emotions and gestures.”

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For a lot of us, it's been a cold winter, the freezing temperatures of which are hanging tough. Many humans have big, fluffy blankets, but what about felines? They're rarely afforded such seasonal luxuries. In circumstances such as those, kitties must improvise. Getting creative with what one has handy is the key. Are dogs off limits? Are they ever? Certainly not. Pile on and ignore those puppy dog eyes. After all, it's what cats usually do anyway.

See more cats making themselves comfortable on the family dog here. 

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This is what Nicki Minaj would sound like ordering a burger at a Queens diner.

If I ever get around to creating our family crest, it will definitely involve a pair of boots. Between the three of us, we own 12 pairs of work, snow, and hiking boots— all of which are in heavy rotation— but we don't have a decent way to store them. Here are 7 boot-friendly storage ideas, all of which can handle footwear that's a lot more challenging to store than flip-flops.

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“It overruns the boundaries separating art from pop, mainstream from underground, primeval past from hi-tech present. … It is as though, in a reversal of tectonic drift, isolated land masses of taste were re-forming as a supercontinent.”

Which would you pick, and why? (Leave your choice in the Comments section. And put me down for #10. Oh and #1. And…#2. And…)

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