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The actor, currently starring in a production of Hamlet in London, is trying to persuade his fans to turn off their devices while they’re watching live performances. Reuters We noticed that you have an AD BLOCKER ENABLED Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways …
You can see Janet airplanes at several airports throughout the U.S. You can hear them on air traffic control. You can fly one in Microsoft Flight Simulator X. But you can’t buy a ticket on a Janet flight, and the people who fly on Janet flights can’t tell you, or even their families, what they…
The driver of the cream-colored Lincoln Continental has been cruising several hours when he finds what he wants. He pulls to the side of Central Expressway, and the hitchhiker climbs into the roomy front seat. Tall, with bedraggled shoulder-length brown hair, the young woman says she’s heading to East Dallas to get drugs. It is past…
The all-female cast of the new Ghostbusters film – Melissa McCarthy, Kriten Wiig, Kate McKinnonm and Leslie Jones – took the time out of their busy schedules to visit patients at the Tufts Medical Center in Boston in their full Ghostbusters gear. Tufts Medical Center’s staff posted the photos from their visit and their thanks on…
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Director F. Gary Gray’s group-endorsed new N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton brings us back to a time when hip-hop didn’t yet dominate popular culture. Now that rap has long been at the forefront of pop music, it’s easy to forget that in the 1980s, the form wasn’t just new but also novel, an outsider’s music…
John Brennan was about to say he was sorry. On July 28, 2014, the CIA director wrote a letter to senators Dianne Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss — the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee (SSCI) and the panel’s ranking Republican, respectively. In it, he admitted that the CIA’s penetration of the computer network used by…
For a lot of people, the Syfy network peaked back when it was still called the Sci-Fi network. That was about a decade ago, when the channel took up a failed, one-season ‘70s project and made it into the smart and elaborately plotted “Battlestar Galactica” we’re more likely to remember now. These days, in some…
myParagraphType: , myParagraphCount: 6 click to enlarge Fun fact: When Tarantino first released Reservoir Dogs in 1992, he wasn’t the acclaimed director he is today. In fact, among the first major press Reservoir Dogs got was a cover story in Detroit’s Orbit Magazine — the now long-defunct culture magazine that graces our cover this week. The…
Advice if you want to work for Facebook: Don’t rock the boat. A student lost his internship with Facebook after provoking the company into updating its location sharing settings for Messenger. Harvard student Aran Khanna had an internship lined up at Facebook, but Khanna wasn’t going to sit around with his thumb up his butt…