One of our favorite daily reading websites is without a doubt Grantland. Founded and helmed by Bill Simmons — author of Now I Can Die In Peace, The Book Of Basketball and a sports writer without equal — Grantland serves as the nexus of where sports collides with pop culture, and explodes in a fireworks […]

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26 May
Book, Read / Look / Listen
The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth
Fighting back and fitting in is important. Or is it?

Geeks. Nerds. Freaks. Freaks & Geeks. Simply put: They aren’t popular. We all know that. But does it matter? Or better put, is that necessarily a bad thing? Not according to reporter Alexandra Robbins, who argues that people who are interested in math, science and technology are the future of our nation (bonus points for […]

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3 Dec
Animation, Art, Art Will Save the World, Book, Features, Questions / Answers, Video
The Tara McPherson Interview
LIAS sits down with one of America's top pop culture illustrators

I first recognized Tara McPherson a few years ago sitting at her booth at Comic Con — it was insane. The line to meet her and have art signed wrapped around 2 other booths and basically shamed the couple other artists with signings at the time. I realized then that McPherson has the sort of […]

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