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'Community' Creator Dan Harmon Critiques Fourth Season | Movies News | Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
2 mentions — 9 hours ago
'Community' Creator Dan Harmon Calls Fourth Season 'Unflattering'Reinstated show runner criticizes Sony Pictures TelevisionJust one week after being officially reinstated as showrunner on Community, creator Dan Harmon revealed his less than favorable opinion of the show's fourth season and its studio, Sony, on a recent episode of his ...
Book Review: Questlove's 'Mo' Meta Blues' | Music News | Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
2 mentions — 9 hours ago
Book Review: Questlove's 'Mo' Meta Blues'The Roots drummer's memoir is a smart, funny, insightful tour of his jam-packed mindAhmir "Questlove" ThompsonMo' Meta Blues: The World According to QuestloveGrand Central PublishingFour starsAnyone who has followed the Roots' 20-year career has already soaked up so much of Questlove's writing – ...
Edward Snowden Q&A: NSA whistleblower answers your questions
guardian.co.uk
14 mentions — 1 day ago
The whistleblower behind the biggest intelligence leak in NSA history will be live online at 11am ET/4pm BST to answer your questions about the NSA surveillance revelationsIt is the interview the world's media organisations have been chasing for more than a week, but instead Edward Snowden is giving ...
Neo-Miniaturist Imran Qureshi on His Rooftop Painting for the Met | Artinfo
BLOUIN ARTINFO
2 mentions — 9 hours ago
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor roof garden has for the past 15 years provided a picturesque venue for special artistic presentations by a variety of international artists, including Jeff Koons and Cai Guo-Qiang. This year an unlikely candidate, Imran Qureshi, joins the ranks.
Vice re-creates female authors’ suicides for maximum trolling
salon.com
5 mentions — 1 day ago
Topics:Editor's Picks,Vice,Suicide,Photography,Virginia Woolf,sylvia plath, Entertainment News Vice is known for its poor taste, but its latest fashion spread by photographer Annabel Mehran demonstrates a particularly egregious trolling attempt. Famous female authors committing suicide, it seems, is the latest low. How original.
Financial Sector Thinks It’s About Ready To Ruin World Again
theonion.com
2 mentions — 7 hours ago
NEW YORK—Claiming that enough time had surely passed since they last caused a global economic meltdown, top executives from the U.S. financial sector told reporters Monday that they are just about ready to completely destroy the world again.Representatives from all major banking and investment institutions cited recent increases ...
Will Season Four Of ‘Downton Abbey’ Finally Show The Wizards Using Their Powers?
theonion.com
2 mentions — 6 hours ago
A report confirms that many Iraqis are still holding a petty grudge about the U.S. invasion, an area man is outraged his private information is being collected by someone other than advertisers, and a new study proves it is impossible to lose weight, no o...Citing factors such as ...
Andrew W.K. to Pound Skins for 24 Hours in Latest Stunt
spin.com
2 mentions — 1 day ago
Following Flaming Lips and Chiddy, party pal hopes to set a new drumming record for MTV's O Music AwardsWhen he's not busy electrocuting David Blaine, stumping for Platex intimate wipes, attending brony conventions, eating spicy wings with Action Bronson, or plotting a tour with Marky Ramone, party provocateur ...
Paper Trail: Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Pitchfork
5 mentions — 5 days ago
When Pitchfork ran a career-spanning interview with Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson in 2011 as part of our 15th anniversary, we noted, "One of these days, ?uestlove will write a memoir, and it will be incredible." Here it is two years later, and that memoir, Mo' Meta Blues: The World ...
Is there a “liberal bias” in academia?
salon.com
2 mentions — 6 hours ago
Topics:LA Review of Books,Books,Academia,Higher education,Liberals,Conservatives,culture wars, Entertainment News, Politics News AT LEAST SINCE THE CULTURE WARS first flared in the late 1980s and early 1990s, we’ve been hearing about the “liberal bias” of professors. In books
Pitchfork.tv to Webcast Mikal Cronin Performing Live at Our Office on Wednesday, June 19
Pitchfork
2 mentions — 9 hours ago
Tomorrow, Pitchfork.tv will webcast a performance from Mikal Cronin, live from the PTV office in Brooklyn. He'll perform tracks from this year's MCII, as well as older material. Tune in at 3pm Eastern. This is part of Pitchfork.tv's Outside In series, which previously featured Kurt Vile. Kanye Confirms ...
Is the Film Industry 'Imploding'? Indiewire's Influencers Respond
Indiewire
3 mentions — 6 hours ago
The hour-long conversation opened with a recent news hook: A recent statement made by Steven Spielberg, during an appearance at USC, that the film industry is on the verge of implosion. With panelists currently embroiled in the process of addressing changes to the marketplace of independent film, the ...
The Dissolve
thedissolve.tumblr.com
3 mentions — 1 week ago
While researching the 1980 William Lustig-directed slasher movie Maniac—the remake of which, starring a crazy-eyed Elijah Wood, is due in limited release and VOD on June 21—I came across a report that Gene Siskel, on Sneak Previews with Roger Ebert, confessed to walking out of the movie in ...
Why didn’t anyone help?
salon.com
3 mentions — 1 day ago
Topics:nigella lawson,Violence Against Women,Ring the Bell,Charles Saatchi, Life News If ever there were a woman who represented the ideal of homey perfection, it’d be Nigella Lawson. This, after all, is the woman who jokingly titled one of her cookbooks “How to Be a Domestic Goddess,” a woman whose ...
Mr. & Mrs. Architect
New York Magazine
7 mentions — 1 day ago
Architecture is an art that thrives on argument. The silent battles that poets and sculptors wage with themselves, architects need to articulate. Because a skyscraper costs so much more than a sonnet, because in the end others will build it, and because the finished product won’t stand isolated ...
GOP plan to appeal to millennials: “Make abortion funny”
salon.com
2 mentions — 12 hours ago
Topics:Social conservatives,Abortion,Reproductive choice,GOP,Republican Party,Republicans,Gay Marriage,Ralph Reed,humor, Politics News “How do you make abortion funny?” That was a key
"What Part of 'Politico' Do You Not Understand?"
New Republic
3 mentions — 11 hours ago
The dominant mode of Washington journalism tends to both reflect and entrench the values of its era. The eminent writers and editors of the immediate postwar age, such as James Reston and Ben Bradlee, were often comfortable with the powerful, and that coziness came just as America itself ...
From Ike to “The Matrix”: Welcome to the American dystopia
salon.com
4 mentions — 2 days ago
Topics:Movies,Politics,Surveillance,technology,surveillance state,surveillance society,1984,Barack Obama,George Orwell,Aldous Huxley,
Andrew W.K. On: How He Plans To Drum For 24 Hours During The O Music Awards | O Music Awards Blog | Music. Tech. Fans. News and Updates
Music. Tech. Fans. News and Updates
2 mentions — 1 day ago
It wouldn’t be the O Music Awards without something weird and wonderful to add to the mix. Last year, that weird and wonderful thing was Wayne Coyne and The Flaming Lips breaking the Guinness World Record for the most live shows in 24 hours (multiple city) — this ...
On “The Bridge,” normal is dangerous
salon.com
2 mentions — 5 hours ago
Topics:the bridge,bron/broen,scandanavian tv,TV,Television,saga noren, Entertainment News Beginning next month, FX will start airing its new original series “The Bridge,” a remake of a Swedish/Danish crime show called “Bron/Broen,” the words for “bridge” in those respective languages. With the premiere just a few weeks off,
A Modernist Proposal: Charles Eames’s Love Letter to Ray, Before They Tied the Knot
ARTINFO.com
2 mentions — 6 hours ago
“I love you very much and would like to marry you very soon,” Charles Eames, who would have turned 106 yesterday, once scrawled across a piece of Cranbrook Academy stationery. It was on a Tuesday that he confessed his love for Ray Kaiser, fellow Cranbrook student, future wife,
Major Update to Adobe Creative Cloud Now Available
blogs.adobe.com
2 mentions — 20 hours ago
We couldn’t be more pleased to announce that our new family of Creative Cloud desktop apps, and many of the powerful publishing and collaborative features that we announced at Adobe MAX in May, are now available. These include:If you are a Creative Cloud member, all of these new apps and services are available to you today, available on a completely redesigned app center on the Creative Cloud website. For enterprise and education customers, we expect to make everything available on June 21 and government customers will see the updates in ...
Introducing The Dissolve, A New Film Site
Pitchfork
11 mentions — 3 weeks ago
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Set to debut later this summer, The Dissolve will feature reviews, commentary, interviews, and news about the films of the moment, while also exploring more than a century of film history. Driven by a shared passion, curiosity, and openness to a wide range of cinematic experiences, The Dissolve’s ...
Stop wondering where all the female creators are, and go find them!
comicsbeat.com
4 mentions — 7 hours ago
Following on from Heidi’s post about gender issues in the comics industry, the best response seemed clear: I should probably write a post about some gender issues. Which leads me to a question which has started to circulate through t’blogosphere recently: whilst we’re all very quick to leap ...
Cory Booker
corybooker.com
5 mentions — 1 week ago
Six years ago, Newark began to lead our state and inspire our nation in declaring that no matter how tough times get, those that need help must be given - not hand outs - but hand-ups. Using new and innovative ideas, our City and its residents continue to surpass expectations – one brick at a time, one hand-up at a time.I love Newark. I did not come to this city through the providence of birth. I chose Newark, and Newark, thank God, accepted me, embraced me and allowed me the ...
Questlove is the Hardest-Working Man in Showbiz, and He is Lonely Enough to Prove It
blogs.villagevoice.com
5 mentions — 6 days ago
In the past six days, he's DJed five events, performed twice with his band, the Roots, taped four episodes of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, opened a restaurant that serves fried chicken he can't eat on his current diet, graded his students' final performances for the New York ...
Vice Removes Controversial Photo Spread
Observer
4 mentions — 9 hours ago
As we reported yesterday, Vice magazine recreated the means of suicide of seven female literary icons in a fashion spread called “Last Words.” But this morning, Vice, which normally prides itself on refusing to bow down to the gods of taste or opinion, has removed the post from ...
MoMA
Landmarks of Modern Architecture
2 mentions — 1 day ago
In celebration of the Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light and Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Architecture exhibitions—and these artists' lasting influence on global architecture—MoMA invites you on a Foursquare scavenger hunt to find iconic modernist architectural sites in New York City. In exchange for checking in ...
Rosen on Kanye West’s Yeezus: The Least Sexy Album of 2013
Vulture
2 mentions — 11 hours ago
“I’m a minimalist,” Kanye West told the Times in an interview published last week. Like so many of the rapper’s pronouncements, that one demands to be taken with a grain — a truckload — of salt. West’s sixth album, Yeezus, may have been, as he claimed in that ...
Drake on Money, Rap, and his Musical Legacy: Celebrities: GQ
gq.com
3 mentions — 11 hours ago
June 2013It begins at three in the afternoon—the pool party—about an hour after Drake wakes in his manse in the San Fernando Valley. Another brightly scrubbed California day, and Drake's crew—the guys from Toronto who live with him here—are downright joyous. It's been a stretch of hard work,
Thom Yorke Auctioning Anti-Poverty Painting | Music News | Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
2 mentions — 8 hours ago
Thom Yorke Auctioning Anti-Poverty PaintingSinger worked with Radiohead collaborator Stanley DonwoodAn anti-poverty painting by Thom Yorke and longtime friend Stanley Donwood – who's responsible for Radiohead and Yorke's album covers and posters since 1994's The Bends – is being being auctioned off by the New York City house ...
Can Women's Magazines Do Serious Journalism?
New Republic
6 mentions — 1 day ago
Last week, the feminist Internet exploded with censure for the British quarterly Port Magazine. The magazine’s transgression? Publishing a cover story about “A New Golden Age” of print media and featuring six white, male editors. It provided visual evidence for what many of us in journalism know to ...
Endorsements Roll in for Booker
WSJ
2 mentions — 11 hours ago
In one of his first public appearance since announcing his candidacy, Mr. Booker was applauded by an Upper East Side crowd for advocating for innovative programming in Newark as part of a panel on cities Monday night.Then, it was expected to be announced Tuesday that Mr. Booker would ...
Ulysses in three minutes
The Irish Times - Fri, Jun 14, 2013
2 mentions — 11 hours ago
Anne Tyrrell, Paul Kennedy and Robert Gogan bring you the three-minute version of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’, a highly-compressed version of the 732 pages, almost 270,000 words and over 200 characters of ‘Ulysses’.The Temple Bar Company will present the city of Dublin premier of the 100 minute version of ...
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Deliver a Twist on 'This Life' - Song Premiere | Music News | Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
2 mentions — 11 hours ago
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Deliver a Twist on 'This Life' - Song PremierePsychedelic rockers offer 'O. Henry ending' in new trackEdward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros are set to release their next, self-titled album on July 23rd, just one year after they released their second record,
Isaac Hepworth (isaach) on Twitter
twitter.com
3 mentions — 1 week ago
today, on day 1,043, @thebeean asked "why?" for the first time. and the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth…"The companies cannot see the queries that are sent from the NSA to the systems installed on their premises" http://m.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-company-officials-internet-surveillance-does-not-indiscriminately-mine-data/2013/06/08/5b3bb234-d07d-11e2-9f1a-1a7cdee20287_print.html …fascinating. more going on than you'd guess. "Teardown and exploration of Apple's Magsafe connector" http://www.righto.com/2013/06/teardown-and-exploration-of-magsafe.html …@DanaDanger @pmorelli doesn't work. turns out it belongs to chrome and