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...Lenny Bruce, who died 40 years ago last week, was the Elvis of comedy. Like the Big E, he had a brilliant, volcanic prime, which unquestionably changed pop culture, and a bloated, drug-addled "maturity." Elvis died at 42, Lenny at the age he had predicted he would: 40. The difficult, self-destructive pathos of their last years only added to their legends; modern saints must also be sinners, to prove they're human as well as divine. And another similarity: a temporary grave marker misspelled Lenny's name, as Elvis' had been on his grave stone. Cue the theremin...
...aura of pop culture, talent and exclusivity make manga artists like rock stars in Japan, and manga creator Natsuki Takaya can now boast of a new generation of devotees worldwide. The creator of Fruits Basket, a best-seller in North America, debuted in the early 1990s with manga in the Japanese magazine Hana to Yume (Flowers and Dreams) to become one of the industry's top shojo authors, creating manga for women that now sell in bookstores across the globe through publishers such as Tokyopop. In the creator's first U.S. interview, TIME's Coco Masters talks with Takaya...
...Hara seat by Giorgio Gurioli for Kundalini Transform your backyard into a hip Balearic hangout with the Modigliana, Italy-based Gurioli's Hara seat, a retrofuturist study in fiberglass. Available in orange, red and white and coated with UV-resistant lacquer, it could easily have arrived in a pop-cultural 1960s time capsule. http://kundalini.it...
...militant Lebanese group are trolling the Internet for vulnerable sites to communicate with one another and to broadcast messages from Al-Manar television, which is banned in the U.S. In the cyberterrorism trade it is known as "whack-a-mole" - just like the old carnival game, Hizballah sites pop up, get whacked down and then pop up again somewhere else on the World Wide...
...young Israeli tank commander who calls himself Sgt. Yoshua knows what awaits him in Lebanon. When his 82nd Battalion crossed the border a few days back, every imaginable threat seemed to pop up in front of him. Three of the four tanks in his unit encountered landmines, missile fire and snipers. Yoshua's best friend, a guitar player, was in one of the tanks hit by a missile and lost both his legs. Three others were killed. "It's not like fighting Palestinians in Gaza," explains Sgt. Yoshua, a gaunt, bearded young soldier. "Hizballah has better weapons. They're highly...