Small Talk


John Spong on the Texas glare

Texas Monthly senior editor John Spong tells us about something else that's big and bright (and messing up art) in Texas.


Sadie Stein and the geodesic dome

Dwell Magazine deputy editor Aaron Britt tells us about a geodesic dome worth a whopping $100,000… if you can pry it off its base.


Richard Lawson and the Hugging Machine

Richard Lawson, Senior Writer for The Atlantic's arts and culture channel, The Atlantic Wire, tells us about a few brilliant, lonely students who've turned a coat into a hugging machine.


Space Bling

John Letzing, reporter with the Dow Jones Newswire and Wall Street Journal, tells us in the future, entrepreneurs be mining the heavens.


Richard Lawson on Drew Barrymore’s New Wine

Drew Barrymore has, like the Coppola’s before her, entered the wine biz. The fast and furious wine industry. In the ads, It’s mostly just Drew Barrymore wandering around sun kissed in some sort of vineyard, staring off into the distance. I think she’s trying to sell it as this laid back, California living kind of thing. But […]