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...cyberspace and on newsstands, writers are out to prove that parenting, or at least parents, can be cool. The online magazine Babble.com spun off from literary sex journal Nerve com publishes articles by and for parents who can't quite believe they ended up doing something as square as raising a kid. (In his Babble blog Baby Daddy, Steve Almond endearingly refers to his 3-month-old as "the little f___er.") In a typical hipster-parent offering, an edgy novelist, musician or feminist sex writer has a baby--Me! Who'd'a thunk it!--and wrestles to reconcile...
...Howl of this movement is Neal Pollack's new memoir Alternadad (Pantheon). Pollack, a novelist and erstwhile punk-rock frontman, sets out to make sure that in a world of Disney and Barney, his baby Elijah, now 5, will be cool (and thus that Dad will remain so). He home schools the boy in hipster culture, taking him to blues shows and playing him a curated collection of punk. Goodbye, Baby Mozart; hello, Baby Ramone...
...When he walked through, I knew we’d won, and I was incredibly excited. It was very cool to be around my close friends and Ryan’s close friends and those who had helped us out along the way. Our campaign was incredibly grassroots. We didn’t really win based on ourselves in any way. We won, in a lot of ways, because of everyone who worked with...
...Antique Perhaps pinching ideas from grandma's parlor, or else the movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Dutch master Marcel Wanders delivers a witty take on chintz. His New Antique collection for Capellini is cool yet cozy - some combination. "We can no longer fall in total awe at a tube being bent," he declares, explaining his elegantly playful antimodernism. www.capcon.it...
...call on Clayton’s last 5-4 match point forced him to display his grit and mental toughness in taking his second singles match of the weekend.“There were hecklers and whatnot,” Clayton said, “but I kept my cool, my teammates were cheering me on.”No. 5 Dan Nguyen also pulled through his share of adversity to reel in his second win of the weekend, defeating Peter Aarts, 6-7(7), 7-6(4), 1-0(4).Nguyen led a number of times in the first...