Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Mindy Kaling‘s secret? You have to earn that bulletproof feeling. In an excerpt from her new book, Why Not Me?, she explains. One evening last year, I was onstage at a Q&A in Manhattan hosted by a magazine to discuss my life and career. This was one of those fancy events where ticket prices are…
If there were a Venn Diagram of things geeks like, it would probably have spaces for stuff like “comics,” “awesome girls,” “nerdy space things,” “cool representation,” and, obviously, “dinosaurs.” In other words, it would basically be Marvel‘s new comic, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. The new series is a reboot of a short-lived creation from the…
Last year, San Francisco released BART Watch, an app for reporting crimes on the Bay Area’s main transit system. After filing a California Public Records Act request to see what people were reporting, the East Bay Express found a disturbing pattern: Of the 763 alerts sent to BART, 198 included a description of the race…
This story first appeared in the Aug. 21 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. The Internet is a swirling death trap of dubious gossip, outraged tweet-to-tweet combat and a million identical pieces of over-processed, hormone-injected “news content” written for fourth-graders. There’s a reason for that. It’s called…
Post Author Credit By Staff The Associated Press WATCH ABOVE: Police raid Uber’s Hong Kong offices HONG KONG – Hong Kong police arrested five Uber drivers and searched the ride-hailing app’s office in the Asian financial centre. Police said Tuesday that officers posing as customers arrested the five drivers in an operation aimed at combating…
Two more Uber drivers were arrested yesterday, just hours after Hong Kong’s police chief warned of a further crackdown on the car-hailing service, following the arrests of five drivers and three company staff on Tuesday. As the battle for control of the city’s roads plays out, it emerged the police joined a meeting during which…
Ever since Marissa Janae Johnson and Mara Jacqueline Willaford commandeered the stage at a Seattle Bernie Sanders rally this past weekend, some pretty despicable attempts to smear their motives has dominated the discussion – mostly perpetuated by people who consider themselves to be “progressives” both in the blogosphere and in the comment sections. Even we…
My boss brought up the infamous Cheerios tweet on my first day. Almost a year had passed, but it was still a cautionary tale: At 8:06 pm on a casual Wednesday night, a seemingly innocuous tweet was sent out and quickly caused a firestorm. Within 24 hours, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called for…
I had a hard time taking this seriously, but the disgusting term “cuckservative” really is taking hold on the right. I’ll be honest: I learned about it a couple of weeks ago from the mild-mannered, clean-cut conservative writer Matt Lewis, but I thought he was making too much of it. It seemed like trying to…
Can art museums — bastions of beauty, sanctuaries of culture — be intimidating to racial minorities? Do they qualify as “white spaces”? First Lady Michelle Obama said as much at the dedication of the $420 million Whitney Museum. “You see, there are so many kids in this country who look at places like museums and concert halls and other cultural…