Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The central premise behind the new Adam Sandler comedy “Pixels” is so undeniably promising on its most basic level that as I walked into the screening, I felt a genuine anticipation that I cannot easily recall ever feeling in conjunction with one of his films, at least of those cranked out by his Happy Madison…
Heterosexuals apparently weren’t too prideful this weekend. Blogger Anthony Rebello was the organizer behind the Heterosexual Parade at Seattle’s Capitol Hill on Saturday. Over 2,000 people were invited on Facebook to attend the event created “in the name of equality [and] equal rights … to celebrate our right to be heterosexual, and to encourage younger heterosexuals…
Dear Mongrel Media, You owe me an apology. Sorry to just come right out and say it, but I really don’t know how else to proceed. You know what you’ve done. Isn’t it time to come clean and make amends? Look, I get why you did it. Here you were, burdened with the impossible task…
Comic books and cinema diverge in plenty of ways, but the ability to use music in the latter may be the most immediate aesthetic difference between the two mediums. Films and comics can often reproduce each other’s visual touchstones; some comics, especially action-oriented ones, could serve as storyboards for their cinematic adaptations, and even…
Tammy Eagle Hunter, youth programs director for the Cheyenne River Youth Project on the importance of love over money: RAPID CITY, SD—I’m not an artist. I work for the Cheyenne River Youth Project. We have a graffiti art park that we just opened. It’s a non-profit so you don’t get paid very much, but I…
Late last week, on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe, a hooded individual distributed fliers and hung posters declaring a war on immigration. Using the most recent covers of Charlie Hebdo as a backdrop, the flier was intended to be a call to action and an ominous warning: “America is ours, and we…
As if the timing were divinely ordained, this coming week the writers, developers and ad people of Gawker Media’s New York office move into a purpose-built space at 17th Street and Fifth Avenue. It’s a new day, and the beginning of Gawker’s second act. The storm surrounding the CFO escort story has abated sufficiently for…
Business InsiderNick Denton says Gawker is “growing up.” Gawker Media, which has spent the past few weeks working through the fallout over a now deleted controversial post on Gawker.com, has announced how it is plans on “growing up”: new hires, a new office, and a fresh editorial code. Writing in a memo, Gawker founder Nick…
Carlo Allegri/Reuters A nail salon on New York’s Upper West Side, November 3, 2014 Rarely does a newspaper story get the kind of response that The New York Times front-page exposé of wage-theft at nail salons prompted this spring. Profiling at length the experiences of a woman named Jing Ren—a twenty-year-old recent immigrant who was…
Photo: Amanda Demme HTML COMPONENT MARKUP BEGIN HTML COMPONENT MARKUP END More has changed in the past few years for women who allege rape than in all the decades since the women’s movement began. Consider the evidence of October 2014, when an audience member at a Hannibal Buress show in Philadelphia uploaded a clip of…