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It wasn’t at all a secret that ABC’s new Muppet show isn’t, well, good. In fact it’s terrible. The good news is that it looks like the network has plans to try to fix it. Showrunner and executive producer Bob Kushell is gone. Given that he created the show with Big Bang Theory’s Bill Prady…
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The Republican presidential campaigns seeking to influence network control over the debate formats are dealing with a handful of defections as they seek to cobble together a coalition with enough heft to achieve their demands. Late Tuesday, Jeb Bush joined the list of candidates who would not sign on to a letter many of the…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley, the only black engineer in a leadership position at Twitter, just publicly announced that he has left the company. In his post, he says his reasons for leaving have everything to do with the way Twitter is addressing diversity and inclusion. Though Miley was laid off as…
Begin: Right Rail Advertisement Container End: Right Rail Advertisement Container Begin: WordPress Article Content In California, a state built on the idealism and tacit cruelty of real estate capitalism, no one is innocent. That’s no different with Airbnb and Proposition F, merely the latest of San Francisco’s Brobdingnagian sagas over land-use politics that will go down in today’s election….
By Mark Joyella on Nov. 4, 2015 – 9:29 AM Netflix chief Reed Hastings would advise you to forget about the network evening news. Asked at a conference about Netflix perhaps adding news to its mix of programming, Hastings said “the 6 p.m. newscast: that thing’s going away.” The New York Post notes that Hastings was…
Jackie Rodriguez Peña prepares a frog smoothie at her stand at the Mercado de las Brujas in Lima, Peru. In Lima’s Mercado de las Brujas, or witches market, Peruvians gather to dicker for talismans and ancient medicines. Giant slugs larger than a water bottle sweat sticky slime. Dried llama fetuses hang from the ceiling, their…
Larry Lessig is a Harvard professor, campaign finance reform activist, and attorney; he is not seeking the Democratic nomination to the 2016 presidential election. That last bit is new, as of yesterday: He was seeking the nomination before that—didn’t you know?—and now he is not. Baby shoes, never worn. Lessig’s résumé, by any reasonable standard,…
“The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” announced Monday that they have been denied press credentials to an Iowa GOP candidate forum, The Iowa Growth and Opportunity Party. Which, despite the way it may sound, has nothing to do with Viagra. “We were afraid they were going to make fun of Iowa,” GOP chairman Jeff Kaufmann…
Startups don’t turn into unicorns — the buzzword for companies valued at a billion dollars or more — without a good story attached. For WeWork — which leases office space, divvies it up into desk-sized chunks, and rents it out month to month, largely in fashionable cities like San Francisco and New York — the…