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221Q-278-027 Photograph by Grant Delin "I knew when I met the Damms I would never forget them,"says Mary Ellen Mark, posing for Jesse Damm. "I did this story to help these children and others like them." Doing the Right Thing Eight years ago LIFE published a series of wrenching photographs by Mary Ellen Mark of Linda and Dean Damm and their two children--a homeless family in Los Angeles.

http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/life/905W-000-052.html

LIFE MAGAZINE - THE SINS OF THE FATHERS - 905W-000-052

http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/life/905W-000-031.html

210K-01X-01X Mary Ellen Mark helps homeless Crissy Damm get ready for school. Photograph by Jeffrey Chong

LIFE MAGAZINE - A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF A HOMELESS FAMILY - 905W-000-031

http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/aperture/904I-000-003.html

APERTURE - MARY ELLEN MARK -904I-000-003

TINY: I've known Mary Ellen for about fourteen years now. I like taking pictures with her. And she's nice, she's a different type of person-outgoing and free of the world.

William Alexander Morgan (April 19, 1928-March 11, 1961)

William Morgan

Where Have All the Hippies Gone? « The Dabbler

… Long time ago . Rita recalls some favourite American Eccentrics… For Americans, an enduring and beloved stereotype is the English Eccentric.

http://thedabbler.co.uk/2012/05/where-have-all-the-hippies-gone/

A Walk on the Wild Side: in a new series, Robert Macfarlane, acclaimed author of “The Wild Places”, walks the Mourne Mountains in Northern Ireland, formed 60m years ago...

WHERE THE WIND HOWLS

http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/lifestyle/where-wind-howls

Khmer Rouge

Adam Yauch and Paul’s Boutique: How dumb court decisions have made it nearly impossible for artists to sample the way the Beastie Boys did

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/adam_yauch_and_paul_s_boutique_how_dumb_court_decisions_have_made_it_nearly_impossible_for_artists_to_sample_the_way_the_beastie_boys_did.html

The Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch, Mike Diamond, and Adam Horovitz

Sports and Pop Culture from Bill Simmons and our rotating cast of writers

Summer Is The Goddamn Worst

My wife and I have been living in France for the past nine months in a city near the Mediterranean coast. But it’s not quite what you think.

The Rust Belt of France: Montpellier

http://www.iasc-culture.org/THR/THR_article_2012_Spring_Wellmon.php

The Hedgehog Review : Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2012) Reprinted from The Hedgehog Review 14.1 (Spring 2012).

IASC: The Hedgehog Review - Volume 14, No. 1 (Spring 2012) - Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart - Chad Wellmon

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/tehran-politics-are-mullahs-losing-their-grip

Tehran Politics: Are the Mullahs Losing Their Grip?

“Y ou are not a wise man, you tyrant,” raps the Iranian female singer Bahar. “Why do your clothes smell like blood? . . .

Behold The Forbidden Flu: A Loom Explainer | The Loom

Here, for your viewing pleasure, is a very important part of a very special flu virus. It may look like an ordinary protein, but in fact it’s been at the center of a blazing debate about whether our increasing power to experiment on life could lead to a disaster.

The Browser | Writing Worth Reading

Consuming Women

The first lap dancing club in the UK opened in 1995. Since then lap dancing has become part of mainstream culture, with the 300+ lap dancing clubs nationwide visited by well-known figures such as Stephen Hawkings and Rihanna.

Tokyo through the letterbox | Spike Japan

Reams have been written about the suicide-as-spectacle of novelist Yukio Mishima’s death; less, perhaps, about the cartographies and circumstances of his birth. He was born Kimitake Hiraoka, on January 14, 1925, the first child of a civil servant, of a family of what would once—then, indeed—have been called “very good stock”, and his wife, of a family of Confucian and Chinese scholars, in Yotsuya, once on the fringe but now already in the heart of a Tokyo that was rapidly expanding and shifting its center of gravity westward, in a district known then as Nagasumi-cho (永住町, “long dwell town”, although he would be gone from the neighborhood by the age of eight) but which was reorganized and renamed Yotsuya 4-chome in a municipal redistricting on April 1, 1943 (one would have thought they would have had better things to do), before being pulverized to smithereens by American air-raids less than two years later.

Letter From Detroit

Glenn C. Loury: Much To Answer For (James Q. Wilson)

Wang Hui · The Rumour Machine: The Dismissal of Bo Xilai · LRB 10 May 2012

‘March 14’ used to be shorthand in China for the 2008 unrest in Tibet; now it stands for the 2012 ‘Chongqing incident’. It is unusual for municipal policy to have national impact, and rarer still for the removal of a city leader to become international news. Some observers have argued that the dismissal of Bo Xilai, the party secretary of Chongqing, is the most important political event in China since 1989.