Los Angeles-based noise-rappers Clipping have released a ton of music this year, or maybe it just feels that way because Splendor & Misery and their Wriggling EP are a lot to take in. If you were ...

Jesus Christ! What are these words? Hincty, goudge, donicker, furze, rick, pecksniff, flapdoodle fantod, tumerling? What kind of screwball whips out stuff like this? That would be Grover Lewis, the ...

SPLENDOR IN THE SHORT GRASS: The Grover Lewis Reader. Edited by Jan Reid and W.K. Stratton. University of Texas Press, 277 pp. $24.95. Mamas, for God's sake, don't let your babies grow up to be ...

The decades spanning the turn of the century witnessed a flowering of ceramic crafts in America. Lone potters and factories with scores of employees turned out vases, bowls and urns, many of which ...