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Ant Simulator, a game that raised money through Kickstarter, has allegedly been canceled because the company’s leaders spent the money on liquor, restaurants, and strippers instead of using it to finish the game. If the allegations are true, the episode is reminder of the go-go days of dotcoms and it represents a cautionary tale for…
One morning last August I visited Williams College in Massachusetts to teach a workshop on “building a life in the arts” with a group of racially, geographically, and economically diverse young people working at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Later that night I attended a show at the theater, where I saw these idealistic apprentices taking…
WALL STREET: Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in the hugely popular original film [] THIS Wednesday a new film is released, one of the most hotly anticipated openings in years. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is the sequel to one of the most famous and best movies of the Eighties, the film that…
The concoction of the “Bernie Bro” narrative by pro-Clinton journalists has been a potent political tactic — and a journalistic disgrace. It’s intended to imply two equally false claims: (1) a refusal to march enthusiastically behind the Wall Street-enriched, multiple-war-advocating, despot-embracing Hillary Clinton is explainable not by ideology or political conviction, but largely if not exclusively by sexism: demonstrated by the fact…
Credit ILLUSTRATION BY JOHN MALTA Barrier Status: ‘none’ TO: Park Slope Parents Listserv FROM: JennFletcher14@rocketmail.com SUBJECT: Re: Rules of Park Slope Parents’ Fight Club Just sending a friendly reminder to all parents after SOMEONE left a roll of medical gauze in the rec center last Thursday! FIRST RULE OF FIGHT CLUB: You MUST be a…
HBO’s 2011 film “Too Big to Fail” is not even the second-best film about the 2008 financial crisis—Adam McKay’s Oscar-nominated “The Big Short” and 2011’s “Margin Call” would probably take those two spots. But “Too Big to Fail” is, like “The Big Short,” an attempt to tell a true story, admittedly with significantly less punchy…
They’re so vain; I bet they think this article’s about them SOME PEOPLE DESPAIR of the young. Books such as “Generation Me” by Jean Twenge and “The Road to Character” by David Brooks describe young Americans as deluded narcissists. Having constantly been told they are special, they are now far more likely than their elders…
.post_category Angouleme organizers criticized for presenting fake awards [Updated] by Brigid Alverson | January 31, 2016 @ 2:42 PM | 5 Comments| post_date .promote .clearer INFOLINKS_ON As if this year’s Angouleme International Comics Festival hadn’t been plagued by enough controversy, the organizers decided to play a practical joke at the closing ceremony that a lot…
The next president will need “more than tough talk or calls to carpet-bomb civilians,” declared President Obama in his final State of the Union address this month. He delivered a few well-placed barbs aimed at Republican presidential candidates and slammed Ted Cruz for his hard-line position on ISIS. After deflating the Texas senator’s call to…
When Daniel Joseph, a York University doctoral student studying labor and technology, found out about Coca-Cola’s GIF the Feeling promotion, he knew exactly what he wanted to make with it: a Coke-branded critique of capitalism. An accessory for Coke’s newly launched “Taste the Feeling” global ad campaign, GIF the Feeling is a website that allows…