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“A MASTERPIECE” reads the poster of Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea in a font larger than the title. It’s a font so large that the blur of motion doesn’t render it illegible—it’s in, I think, every subway station along New York’s L line, which means I’m confronted at least a few times on most…
Media center-infused smart speakers and Bluetooth speakers are pretty common these days, but over on Hackaday, user Carlo Maria Curinga made one of the slickest looking little speakers we’ve seen yet. The hardware here includes a Raspberry Pi, a DAC, an amp, speaker, and a little LED matrix for visual feedback. On the software end,…
The year 2016 has seen it all: the death of a gorilla and the birth of an irredeemable meme; the resurgence of fascism and the rise of the alt-right; the election victory of Donald Trump and the complete deterioration of modern American politics. And yet, the year perseveres, collecting momentum and shattering our preconceived notions…
The band at D.C.’s Howard University, which marched in Obama’s first inaugural parade, also did not apply to march in Trump’s parade startclickprintincludeThe Ballou High School marching band proudly represented D.C. in President Barack Obama’s second inaugural parade, Jan. 20, 2013. Here’s the band on the parade route. (Published Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016) endclickprintinclude startclickprintinclude…
When I was in my 20s, I remember my therapist patiently listening to me complain about how out-of-my-depth I often felt around other gay men. I was asking her why they always seemed so effortlessly aloof and cool, whereas I was – and to some extent, still am – a slobbering golden retriever of a…
Here’s a second, supplementary video we made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEfQ_…And a new Twitter account about temp music we made: https://twitter.com/SoundsLikeTempWatch Dan Golding’s great response video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcXsH…Off the top of your head, could you sing the theme from Star Wars? How about James Bond? Or Harry Potter? But here’s the kicker: can you sing any theme from a Marvel film?…
Now YouTube is set to pay millions in royalties to songwriters, in its latest salvo in a campaign to make amends with the music industry. The platform will pay music publishers “millions of dollars” for unpaid royalties from songs used in YouTube videos that have been difficult to identify, the company said. The agreement follows…
Image via AP. Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def, has been living in Cape Town since May 2013, and his visitor’s permit expired by 2014, according to the AP. That year, a planned U.S. tour was cancelled when he was unable to re-enter the states. He was arrested in January of 2016 when he…
Posted April 19 2016 — 10:14 AM EDT Anyone who’s ever heard a Queen song recognizes the power of Freddie Mercury’s voice. Those majestic, bombastic, rough-hewn vocals have had an indelible impact on pop and glam genres. Now, a group of Austrian, Czech, and Swedish researchers have used science to prove Mercury was just as good a singer as…
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