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An Alternative Plan Michael Kimmelman, New York Times architecture critic Train stations are more than just a bunch of platforms for getting places. They’re portals. New York used to have two of the world’s most ennobling entrances, announcing the city in all its ambition and glory, Grand Central Terminal and the…
Top-ranked female chess players have been told that if they want to compete in next year’s world championships, they’ll have to wear hijabs—because the competition will be held in Iran. Grandmasters have accused the World Chess Federation’s Commission for Women’s Chess of ignoring the implicit sexual and religious discrimination, reports the Telegraph. US women’s champion…
You don’t need to be Beyonce to drop an album unexpectedly and send the Internets into a tizzy. Today, Tycho (aka Scott Hansen and friends) surprised his loyal, quiet following with his complete fourth studio album, Epoch. “10 years ago next month the first Tycho record, Past is Prologue, was released and it’s been an…
This is what 14 trips on the Staten Island Ferry looks like. As someone who grew up on Staten Island, I’ve taken the ferry many times. In college, I masqueraded as an adult and took the morning rush-hour boats to an internship on the Upper West Side. I took mid-day weekend boats to sightsee with…
Details Published on Tuesday, 27 September 2016 10:52 Written by Saigoneer. This week is off to a rough start for Saigoneers after yesterday’s torrential downpour brought unprecedented flooding to the southern hub. After a period of increasingly dark skies, the rains began around 5pm, coming down in sheets all over town. According to Tuoi Tre,…
Hillary Clinton gave multiple shoutouts to fact checkers during the first presidential debate on Monday — but of course, directing viewers to her own site, which was churning out its own fact checks on Donald Trump’s statements throughout the night. Though TV networks (mostly) shied away from on-screen fact checking, other news organizations doubled down,…
Sept. 27, 2016 6:40 p.m. ET Speaking to advertising executives on Tuesday, Facebook Inc. FB 0.01 % executives downplayed controversy over the company’s miscalculation of a video metric and called for ad buyers to focus on metrics tied to business outcomes. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the social network had been overestimating…
Hillary Clinton currently has a 71 percent chance of winning the presidency, according to The Upshot’s forecasting model. This is down from 90 percent last month, but higher than some other models we’re tracking, which put the odds between 58 percent and 85 percent. Part of the discrepancy comes from the use of different information….
The anti-suffragette movement long delayed women from attaining the vote. When in 2008 Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were competing for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, historians likened the battle between them to the battle between Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton that took place in post-Civil War America over the right to vote. Nobody…
GIF The CW’s original “Fight Club” ad, teaming up its DC superheroes and villains, was a bit of amazingly silly fan service. How could someone possibly improve on it? Three words: Add. Kara. Danvers. The channel has just dropped “Fight Club 2.0”, which bumps up the crossover’s superheroic potential with the arrival of Supergirl and…