Catching Up w/ Rolling Stone Magazine

The last couple of issues I read, from December, were particularly good. Unfortunately, RS has become pretty stingy w/ online access. (Solicit yr local library for back issues, or email me for an online password.) Here's some of the cream:

>Santiago's Brain is ostensibly about the failure of our education system to foster the development of exceptionally-gifted children, but focuses upon one child who successfully side-stepped it. Here's a poorly formatted "reprint".






















>A profile of (the Roots' musical genius) Questlove. His OCD is manifest in ways I think rocky could appreciate:

His idea of a fun weekend is digitizing a few dozen of his 77,000 LPs. (He keeps them at a house in Philadelphia that he spent the past eight years converting into a massive library.) "I've eased up in the last two years," he says. "But between '97 and 2006, the least I spent was probably $50,000 a year... between $2,500 and $4,000 per trip."

>A revealing profile of Louis C.K.

>Scorsese on 3D film-making:

I've wanted to direct a 3D movie since I saw House of Wax in 1953... If I could go back in time, I'd shoot Taxi Driver in 3D. Bob DeNiro in the mirror as Travis Bickle. Imagine how intimidating. "You talking to me? You talking to me?" Amazing possibilities.

Finally, food for thought: