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Harry Shearer, who for decades has worked as one of the stars of The Simpsons—lending his voice to characters like Ned Flanders, Mr. Burns, Principal Skinner and Waylon Smithers—has seemingly announced he will no longer be working on the show. A story on TMZ over the weekend claimed that attempts to renew the long-running cartoon…
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Oh no, someone took the Black Widow SNL sketch and turned it into a real series. CBS just released its first trailer for the Supergirl show and it is so depressingly paint-by-numbers we had to list the cliches off. But halfway in, it gets better. This is depressing. Why must this big, awesome female-led superhero…
Welcome to Wegmans, the number one place to buy food in America. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Wegmans, the Rochester-based supermarket known for its fresh produce, reasonable prices, and happy employees, is moving to Brooklyn. And people are thrilled. News of the new store, which will open in 2017, and, in line with Wegmans’ strategy, will be enormous,…
<br /> I don’t care if anyone finds this cheesy. The first extended look at CBS’s forthcoming Supergirl television show made me cry tears of joy and I am over the moon about it. Now I’m going to go back in time and tell this little girl she was right on the money in loving…
Amy Chozick has a fascinating story about politicians struggling to find a vocabulary to describe families who are not poor but who feel their economic struggles are sufficiently severe that they no longer self-identify as middle-class. I don’t have any advice to offer political wordsmiths, but the discussion is a good a reminder that household…
/.byline-inner How would you describe a woman who has decided that she never wants children? Selfish? Just going through a phase? Bound to feel alone as she grows older? Our culture has a lot of labels for childless females. One word you don’t often hear in reference to a woman and her personal choice not to procreate? Empowered. But, that’s…
Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer Big-O notation used to be a really scary concept for me. I thought this is how “real” programmers talked about their code. It was all the more scary because the academic descriptions (such as Wikipedia) made very little sense to me. This is frustrating because the underlying concepts…
It could represent a seismic change for both the publishing industry and for the media company itself. Mark Thompson, President and CEO, The New York Times Company. Photo: Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images Wednesday morning, in what marks a tectonic shift in the publishing industry, the New York Times is expected to officially begin a long-awaited partnership with…
My name is Stephen Harper and I approve this candidate (until I learn he’s a fake). Photo via Chris Lloyd‘s website. This article originally appeared on VICE Canada. A Conservative candidate’s sudden resignation marks the latest chapter in an artistic performance that’s now spanned over 15 years. On Tuesday, a CBC News investigation revealed that…