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Return to 'Neverwhere' -- again

British fantasist Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere gets its second adaptation, this time to comics.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 06-23-2005 | Fiction

Tags: Alan Moore, neil gaiman, Glen Fabry, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, Neverwhere, Vertigo

London Calling

A new book offers a guided tour of the Clash's history -- and city.

Columbus Alive | Stephen Slaybaugh | 06-16-2005 | Nonfiction

Tags: Joe Strummer, fag end of the street, Mojo, Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash, Pat Gilbert, The Clash

So You Want To Be Batman...

Batman may have written the book on crime-fighting, but you get to read it.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 06-09-2005 | Nonfiction

Tags: Batman, Batcave, David Hahn, Quirk Books, Scott Beatty, The Batman Handbook, The Batman Handbook: The Ultimate Training Manual, whipfight

Stuff Preservation

A Smithsonian Institution conservator breaks down how to preserve your personal treasures, from paintings to kids' macaroni art.

Columbus Alive | Melissa Starker | 06-02-2005 | Nonfiction

Tags: Don Williams, Louisa Jagger, Saving Stuff, Smithsonian Institute

Just What the Crazy Victorian Doctor Ordered

This guide lists 65 of the funniest, fictional diseases the best and brightest of the Sci-Fi/fantasy set could come up with.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 05-05-2005 | Fiction

Tags: Alan Moore, neil gaiman, Jeff Vandermeer, leprosy, Mark Roberts, Michael Moorcock, Thackery T. Lambshead, The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases

Chinese Take-Out and Take-Downs

Monster-fighting busboy Sharknife delivers hyperbolic non-stop, over-the-top, hip-hop chop-socky action.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 04-28-2005 | Fiction

Tags: Corey S. Lewis, Oni, Sharknife, The Rey

Chow Down With Chowhound.com -- Offline

The food-finding Web site offers a hardcopy of its recommendations for the best weird jellies and Pakistani cabbie fuel in New York City.

Columbus Alive | G.A. Benton | 04-28-2005 | Nonfiction

Tags: Chowhound, Mario Batali, The Chowhound’s Guide to the New York Tristate Area, Zagat's

An Art Movement by Any Other Name...

Matt Dukes Jordan offers a field guide to the world of lowbrow art, and the many objections to that term.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 04-14-2005 | Nonfiction

Tags: Camille Rose Garcia, Josh Agle, lowbrow art, Mark Ryden, Matt Dukes Jordan, Tim Biskup, Todd Schorr, Weirdo Deluxe

Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Era

A leading matriarch of Ohio's political family dynasty gets a new biography that answers such as questions as why our current governor is named "Bob" Taft instead of "Alphonso."

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 04-14-2005 | Nonfiction

Tags: Bob Taft, Carl Sferrazza Anthony, Hope Taft, Nellie Taft, Nellie Taft: Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Era, William Howard Taft

The Man From Nowherenew

Author, critic and controversial theorist James Howard Kunstler on the ugliest building in Columbus and our emerging "Parking Lot Nation"

Columbus Alive | Nikki Davis | 04-07-2005 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Home From Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler, Peter Eisenman, The Geography of Nowhere

Libertarian Sci-Fi

L. Neil Smith's sci-fi noir thriller about a police detective from the far-flung future of 1987 visiting the Libertarian America next door gets the easy-to-read graphic novel treatment.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 03-24-2005 | Fiction

Tags: Libertarian, Jack Chick, L. Neil Smith, Scott Bieser, The Probability Broach, The Probability Broach: The Graphic Novel