Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Now that The Force Awakens has awoken in theaters, various details are emerging about some of the directions NOT taken in the latest Star Wars film. Among them? One character that was supposed to perish after a short amount of screen time. Potential spoilers ahead. Who’s the character? Poe Dameron, according to an interview with…
Related: Harrison Ford dines out in Peckham and our film of the year – the Dailies podcast Daniel Craig did cameo as a stormtrooper in the new Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens – despite having denied doing so – according to Entertainment Weekly. Reporter Chris Lee, who broke the story of the James Bond…
Whether you’ve seen their beautifully wrapped bars for sale at Shake Shack or Rag & Bone, featured in the pages of the New York Times or Vogue, or decorating one of their New York, London, or soon, LA shops, Mast Brothers chocolate bars have become the world’s most prominent brand of artisanal chocolate. But while…
Political arguments over the impact of racism in America can often devolve into a stalemate of feelings. Here is one very concrete way to measure what racism has done—and is doing—to our country. No honest person (not even a Republican) can doubt that the legacy of slavery and the subsequent awful periods of racial atrocity…
Outsize pay for chief executive officers has been a bone of contention among shareholder activists for years. What’s less known is that the directors on board-compensation committees — the very people who decide to give out those large CEO salaries, bonuses, and stock grants — also tend to pay themselves and other directors extremely well….
Yeah I saw it and it was a good musical and all that but come on. “The Case for Hamilton as Album of the Year” Come on. You can find this Hamiltonian idea of hip-hop refracted through rap’s other great works this year. You hear it in the verbosity, the craft, the daringness, the desperate…
HTML Element: 7.2509921 Forget about snakes on a plane — check out what was riding on this bus-s-s-s. A large snake, possibly a ball python, took a weekend ride on an MTA bus in Brooklyn. The slithering passenger was seen riding the B12 bus at East New York and Saratoga Aves. Shortly after…
So you want to live in New York City. The stereotypical “affluent young college graduate from Ohio coming to make his way in the big city”—that easily mocked demographic that can be ignored and dismissed out of hand as spoiled, or part of the problem—is only a small sliver of New York City residents. Most…
Facebook has gone out of its way this year to clarify its hate speech policy, explaining in March that it aims to be consistent with the type of content it removes. So why has the social network appeared to have made an exception for Donald Trump, who recently posted a video saying Muslims should…
As the holidays approach I’ve been feeling less and less like blogging. So I decided in order to best serve the “Cut” readers the most obvious option was having a professional Manservant do my job for me. Meet Conr, my Manservant for several hours, sent as a corporate holiday gift….