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Insider coverage of the NBA since 1994

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The sweet, gooey intersection of hip hop and art history.

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Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves.

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I write about quilts, trees, Lake Michigan, gay things, wool, and being an artist.

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