Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
GIF On May 21, 2001, developer Volition and publisher THQ took gamers to Mars and let them blow the living hell out of everything that moved and most things that didn’t. Red Faction is a game about a miner revolt on Mars in the year 2075. Earth’s resources have been depleted and a vile corporation…
Photo Officers escorted people who had been charged with selling fake tickets to the Statue of Liberty out of the 7th Precinct on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on Wednesday. Credit Dave Sanders for The New York Times The arrival of spring beckons millions of tourists to New York City, and many are set…
300ad The Huffington Post’s own Executive Editor Liz Heron, a self described Brooklynite Mom, tweeted a photo of an Editors Meeting at the Huffington Post main headquarters. The photo was meant to be a positive publicity stunt for the media giant. Only she didn’t expect to get the firestorm over the photo that followed. In…
Watch the new trailer for Star Trek Beyond, starring Idris Elba, Chris Pine, Simon Pegg, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Anton Yelchin and Karl Urban. Star Trek Beyond is coming to theatres July 22, 2016. “Star Trek Beyond,” the highly anticipated next installment in the globally popular Star Trek franchise, created by Gene Roddenberry…
When director Justin Lin jumped from the Fast & Furious franchise to Star Trek Beyond, it promised an even bigger emphasis on adrenalized action, and the movie’s latest trailer seems to support just that. The clip, which was debuted during a fan event this evening hosted by Adam Savage, shows Chris Pine’s James T. Kirk getting…
After a couple of years off, Curbed’s column Three Cents Worth makes its triumphant return! This week, real estate appraiser, Curbed graph guru, blogger, and podcaster Jonathan Miller looks at the what’s going on in Manhattan’s up-and-down rental market. The April 2016 Manhattan-Brooklyn-Queens rental report was published late last week and I thought I’d present some additional Manhattan rental charts. Rents in…
Skybridges today are relics of New York City’s past—a formidable symbol of what architects imagined the city’s future could look like. But those that remain are not only few and far between, but also often in a state of disrepair. Despite that, one architecture firm has been working to bring them back into the spotlight, and…
The bad blood between pop star Kesha and producer Dr. Luke, her onetime mentor, has been getting nastier and nastier for years now. After a movement by fans to cut her loose from a contract they called exploitative (#FreeKesha), charges of the producer insulting her weight and provoked an eating disorder, and a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment…
.entry-header March 18, 2016, 4:05 PM EDT E-mail Tweet Facebook Linkedin Share icons At the afterparty for Microsoft’s official Game Developer Conference in San Francisco Thursday night, the company hired dancers dressed in sexually provocative clothing, prompting some to accuse Microsoft of alienating women in the already male-dominated tech industry, reports Business Insider. Attendees posted…
paging_filter Tribune Publishing chairman Michael Ferro hasn’t said much in public since Gannett, the largest newspaper company in the U.S., went public with its hostile takeover bid for his company. But inside the company, publisher of a slate of struggling but nationally recognized broadsheets like The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and The Baltimore…