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The miserable lack of diversity in Silicon Valley is so exhaustively documented by now that we’ve nearly run out of ways to point it out. It’s most conspicuous at the top echelons, where the money is invested and recouped—and longtime VC John Doerr just made the problem glaringly obvious. http://valleywag.gawker.com/marc-andreesse… Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers…
Today, the hashtag #FreedomForKesha was trending on Twitter, with the public sharing support for pop singer Kesha Rose Sebert, who on Friday pushed for a preliminary injunction in her legal battle with her former producer Dr. Luke (Lukasz Gottwald). Sebert alleges that Gottwald has abused her repeatedly during their ten-year working relationship. she was raped and abused by…
We’ve celebrated Fran Krause’s Deep Dark Fears tumblr before—it’s a collection of really insane comics about truly bizarre things to be afraid of. A lot of them are very outlandish or sort of existential, or just very goofy. And now, he’s got a book of new comics, and we’ve got an exclusive first peek. http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Dark-Fear……
His name is Emilio Mayfield and we now know that moments before he was confronted, assaulted, and arrested by police on the morning of Wednesday, September 16, he was catching public transportation to his local school. In his first interview after the brutal and excessive assault, Mayfield opened up about what happened on that Stockton,…
Last year, Kesha filed a lawsuit against Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald, her longtime producer, for allegedly verbally and physically assaulting her for years. Dr. Luke filed a countersuit, claiming Kesha was merely trying to extort him so she could get out of her contract, and Kesha responded earlier this summer by expanding her lawsuit to…
Despite having been accused by pop star Kesha (Rose Sebert) of allegedly having abused, drugged and raped her, producer Dr. Luke (Lukasz Gottwald) still has contractual control over Kesha’s career. On Friday, Kesha and her attorney Mark Geragos asked for a preliminary injunction that would end the long-standing paralysis this has created (it began last October) and free Kesha…
Today in actors angrily storming out of press appearances, Robert De Niro reportedly left an interview with the U.K.’s Radio Times promoting his new comedy “The Intern” because the reporter’s questions had a “negative inference.” The journalist, Emma Brockes, told the Guardian that De Niro was unhappy with some questions she asked, about Tribeca (home…
In the sleek, cold lobby of the Langham Place hotel in Midtown Manhattan, one of those thoroughly designed spaces in which one cannot find a right angle, much less a comfortable chair, the 68-year-old, 7-foot-2 former basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was sitting on a leather bench with his arms draped around his protruding knees. It was…
WASHINGTON — One of the U.S. government’s largest safety net programs won’t be there to catch people if the federal government shuts down next month. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides monthly food benefits to 45 million Americans, will go dark if Congress fails to pass a law funding government operations after Oct. 1, according…