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music Listen: Marlene Dietrich plays musical saw (with bonus Star Trek theme) Andrea James

History Beautiful footage of Parisian life from more than 100 years ago David Pescovitz

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happy mutants Richard Kadrey discusses his new dieselpunk noir novel "The Grand Dark" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants To do in LA this weekend: laugh your head off at PUBLIC DOMAIN THE MUSICAL at the Hollywood Fringe Cory Doctorow

sausage Delightful vintage toy shows how the sausage gets made Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants Buskers are the only performers making money at the Edinburgh Fringe. Here's how. Mat Ricardo

fascism Hitler's mouthpiece got booted from American restaurants, too Andrea James

happy mutants London's Variety Club for Kids: Cabaret for all ages, May 29/30 Cory Doctorow

music Watch David Bowie and Marianne Faithful (dressed as a nun) perform "I Got You Babe" in 1973 David Pescovitz

happy mutants William Gibson's Archangel: a graphic story of the unfolding jackpot apocalypse Cory Doctorow

baby tattoo An art adventure in a magicians' lair with Olivia De Berardinis & Thomas Kuntz Jason Weisberger

video 'Sound Journeys' merge natural sounds and human-made environments Andrea James

music Bobby Hutcherson, legendary jazz vibraphonist, RIP David Pescovitz

movies First and final seconds of 55 movies, shown side-by-side Mark Frauenfelder

Babes in Toyland: What it's like to go back on tour after an 18-year-break Carla Sinclair

Searching for Krampus Al Ridenour

Death, Science, Sexology: Joanna Ebenstein of the Morbid Anatomy Museum Mark Dery