Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Sunday was the day of yet another red-carpet event, for yet another award show. Whenever these shows happen, there’s bound to be a reporter making a fool of him- or herself. Sunday night during the Screen Actors Guild Awards red carpet, Rashida Jones, who stars in Parks and Recreation, had to let a reporter know about…
Start Article Post Content Andre Singer’s “Night Will Fall,” debuting on HBO on Monday, tells the story of what happened to producer Sidney Bernstein and director Alfred Hitchcock’s hundreds of thousands of hours of footage of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.Vivid, chilling and horrific, the images were part of an Allied-commissioned project in…
Updated Sunday, Jan. 25, 6:35 p.m.: The Yale Police Department is conducting an internal investigation of an incident in which a New York Times columnist’s son was stopped by police, who were seeking a burglary suspect, according to the Yale Daily Mail. The paper says college students had described a tall, African-American male wearing a black…
close shareTools Saturday evening, I got a call that no parent wants to get. It was my son calling from college — he’s a third-year student at Yale. He had been accosted by a campus police officer, at gunpoint! This is how my son remembers it: He left for the library around 5:45 p.m. to…
Wikipedia editors have been banned from topics relating to gender and sexuality. Photograph: Wikipedia Wikipedia’s arbitration committee, the highest user-run body on the site, has banned five editors from making corrections to articles about feminism, in an attempt to stop a long-running edit war over the entry on the “Gamergate controversy”. The editors, who were…
Watch Emma Watson’s Second Excellent Speech About Gender Equality By Meg Watson 24/1/15 end article header At this point, I think it’s safe to say Emma Watson is absolutely killing it in her new role as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador. Her speech in September last year was watched more than 11 million times and inspired…
For nearly as long as theantifeminist culture war known as Gamergate has raged across the internet, a microcosm of the battle has taken place on Wikipedia. Should Gamergate defined as a push for ethics in gaming journalism, or a paranoid campaign against women in gaming? This week, Wikipedia’s highest court made a major decisionin favor…
‘Selma’, ‘The Imitation Game’ And Rewriting The Past: Should We Expect More Accuracy When It Comes To Biopics? By Dave Crewe 19/1/15 end article header It’s fair to say that a lot of people were unhappy about the Oscar nominations announcement on Thursday. While nerds raged at The Lego Movie’s snubbing, the bulk of the…
One of the Twitter accounts set up using the author’s photo and name This post first appeared on VICE UK. “Ellie! Chia! I didn’t know you were here!” We’re on the Malia strip during the summer of 2010. My friend and I stare blankly back at the boy in front of us, certain we’ve never…
Speaker of the House John Boehner and Republicans passed a bill Thursday that would codify a ban on federal funding for abortions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) | ASSOCIATED PRESS Entry Text On the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark abortion rights decision in Roe v. Wade, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 242-179 to…