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(courtesy Ann Toback) Seats on 42nd Street subway Shuttle cars are wrapped with symbols from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, intended to carry commuters into the alternate history of the Amazon TV series, The Man in the High Castle, in which the Axis Powers were victorious. “Half the seats in my car had Nazi…
A couple months ago, you may have seen a commercial for Apple Music floating around the internet, perhaps accompanied by a praise hands emoji or an all-caps “SLAY.” Unlike previous ads for the streaming service, it eschews the global “everyone listening to the same Pharrell song all the time” vibe and aims for the hyper-relatable: just a…
You could watch Amazon’s new series, Man in the High Castle, based on the Philip K. Dick novel about an alternate timeline where the Nazis won World War Two, or you could just read the news, where leading Republican presidential candidate and literal fascist Donald Trump continues to lie and lie with no apparent end…
Nov 20 2015 :: by Alex An ex-coworker of mine has posted this gem to a russian bash.org, so I decided to translate this and steal all the credit post this to my blog under his permission. more xxx: OK, so, our build engineer has left for another company. The dude was literally living…
early 10,000 people are petitioning moviegoers across the country to boycott Paramount Pictures’s upcoming Zoolander sequel on the grounds that the movie is transphobic and to be honest…they’re probably right. Last week, the first trailer for Zoolander 2 finally dropped and we got a look at what to expect from Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson’s…
Photo An emergency medical worker with a sick passenger on the F train in Brooklyn in June. Credit Dave Sanders for The New York Times A voice over the intercom delivers the bad news, and throughout the car there are audible sighs. Your train is delayed because of a sick passenger. Subway riders sit and…
During Iraq’s long summer of 2004, one of the many prisoners who arrived at the American-run facility at Camp Bucca in southern Iraq was a young jihadist who fought under the name Abu Ahmed. Though he’d feared prison, Abu Ahmed found, to his surprise, a kind of jihadist salon, as extremist fighters locked up together…
In 2001, two unlikely friends created a music festival in Mali that drew the likes of Bono and Robert Plant. Then radical Islam tore them apart. When Mohamed Aly Ansar studied international law at the University of Bamako, in the capital of Mali, he spent his days thinking about how to bring development to his…
Only NBC10’s Randy Gyllenhaal spoke with two Philadelphia men who were delayed from boarding a flight home from Chicago after they say another passenger complained about them speaking Arabic. (Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2015) A Philadelphia pizza shop owner and his friend had to call 911 in Chicago’s Midway airport Wednesday night in order to…
(Don Richards) Rats have long been taking advantage of people in the city with the same gusto as hot dog sellers and Staten Island Ferry dealers—but thanks to all the viral food people have been throwing at them lately, they’re starting to act more and more like humans. Connecticut man Don Richards told Fox61…