The Lippard Blog

My favorite part of the Token Skeptic podcast #76's interview with Sara Mayhew and Jack Scanlan is 28:30-28:42, where Scanlan says &quo...

In an op-ed at the New York Times , Charles Blow offers a rebuttal to the claim that most people follow particular religions because they ar...

Kat and I made arrangements to travel to D.C. for the inauguration a few months before the election. Our plan was to attend regardless of w...

Last night Einzige, frequent commenter Schtacky, and I went to see "A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant" ...

Our dog Otto continues his celebrity career by being featured on the front of a "save the date" postcard for a fundraiser for Alte...

Tempe's Stray Cat Theatre is performing "A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant," December 5-20. The Eas...

ApostAZ podcast #10 is out: Episode 010 Atheism and Dogma-Free Thought in Phoenix! Go to meetup.com/phoenix-atheists for group events! Qu...

Jesse Dylan has made a short video about Creative Commons licensing (which is used for the contents of this blog), and how it helps patch t...

If Einzige and I were not going to be in Pasadena for the Skeptics Society conference, we would be attending the CD release show for FutureK...

Via Podblack Cat , I read Adam Gopnik's fascinating account of magic as practiced by Jamy Ian Swiss, David Blaine, and with a few remar...

A short conversation between Orson Welles and H.G. Wells (MP3) aired live on KTSA radio in San Antonio on October 28, 1940. The main subje...

David Byrne has collaborated with David Hanson, the guy who made the Philip K. Dick robot at NextFest in 2005 , to make a robot named Julio ...

We've purchased a few of these designs , at 25% off... I didn't get them in time for TAM6, but I wore the element one this weekend. ...

Einzige, Kat, and I attended the Richard Cheese show tonight, and he put on a great crowd-pleasing performance. The recorded versions of h...

Richard Cheese will be performing live on the radio this afternoon on Phoenix's KEDJ, 103.9 FM, at around 4:45 p.m. Arizona time, during...

Today's Arizona Republic has an article about Richard Cheese , who will be appearing at the Celebrity Theater on June 7 with his Loung...

Some Arizona atheists are putting together a regular podcast called "ApostAZ," including music from Greydon Square (who will be p...

Local artist Susan Barken completed her painting of Otto , and here it is. ( Previously .)

An interesting series of captioned photographs of people shortly before and shortly after their deaths (all of people who knew they were te...

Julia Sweeney writes at her blog : Ben Stein once did a Groundling show, an improv show, that I was a part of. I found him to be spectacular...