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Michael Barrish

Michael Barrish is a writer and web developer. He lives in Brooklyn. He has a bag and a mantra.

Pervert

Apple Computer is well-known for its excellent customer service, but what happens when they’re liable for your perversions? MICHAEL BARRISH inspects the details of the case. (Personalities | June 12, 2003)

The Fudgy-Wudgy Guy

Epistemology may seem pleasantly bewildering, but wait until it begins to mess with your childhood memories. MICHAEL BARRISH reports from under the beach. (Stories | June 5, 2003)

New York Solitaire

New York is a filthy place, through and through. So how have we convinced ourselves that it’s such a beautiful city? MICHAEL BARRISH explains a game he invented to sort through the trash and find a better life. (New York, New York | April 24, 2002)

Personal Hygiene on a Shoestring Budget

It’s a cold, menacing world out there, and it doesn’t care whether or not you’ve brushed your teeth this morning. But you care and you’re broke. So what’s going to come between you and your hygiene needs? The law? MICHAEL BARRISH spits—but so minty, so fresh—in the face of conformity. (Opinions | April 4, 2002)

Storage Facility

Back in 1999, Jaron Lanier, a leading figure in the history of Virtual Reality (he coined the term), proposed a revolutionary vehicle for archival storage: cockroaches. MICHAEL BARRISH explains the madness. (Opinions | January 14, 2002)


TODAY’S FEATURE

The Game of Love

Anyone who says video games shouldn’t appeal to adults, let alone women, has never flirted with General Carth Onassi. MARIE MUTSUKI MOCKETT explores a virtual courtship.

OUR MAN IN BOSTON

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Like the man himself, Gore Vidal's scrapbook of the past half-century is unparalleled.

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RoseLee Goldberg

RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, curator, and author of Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present. In 2004, she founded PERFORMA, a non-profit arts...