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Michael Hastings Dead at 33 | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
13 mentions — 12 hours ago
Michael Hastings, 'Rolling Stone' Contributor, Dead at 33The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los AngelesMichael Hastings, the fearless journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, Rolling Stone has learned. He was 33.Hastings' ...
Statement On Michael Hastings
buzzfeed.com
10 mentions — 13 hours ago
Your Post Has Been Launched!Fabulous! Don't forget to share with your friends on Twitter and Facebook.BuzzFeed is saddened to report that Michael Hastings died in a car accident early this morning in Los Angeles. He was 33.Ben Smith, BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief, said in a statement:We are shocked and devastated ...
Book Review: Questlove's 'Mo' Meta Blues' | Music News | Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
2 mentions — 20 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 – ...
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove: Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Ben Greenman: 9781455501359: Amazon.com: Books
amazon.com
3 mentions — 2 days ago
"You have to bear in mind that [Questlove] is one of the smartest motherfuckers on the planet. His musical knowledge, for all practical purposes, is limitless." --Robert ChristgauMO' META BLUESThe World According to QuestloveMo' Meta Blues is a punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own ...
GOP’s war on women has a new face: Marsha Blackburn
salon.com
3 mentions — 17 hours ago
Topics:Rep. Marsha Blackburn,Rep. Trent Franks,House abortion ban,Pay equity,Editor's Picks,War on women,GOP,Republicans,Republican Party,Abortion,
Cummings releases IRS transcript
salon.com
3 mentions — 17 hours ago
Topics:Darrell Issa,elijah cummings,IRS investigation, News, Politics News The internal war between House Oversight Committee chair Darrell Issa and ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings blew up again Tuesday, when Cummings released the full transcript of a five-hour interview with the conservative Republican IRS screening manager who said the very first ...
'Community' Creator Dan Harmon Critiques Fourth Season | Movies News | Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
2 mentions — 20 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 ...
Edward Snowden Q&A: NSA whistleblower answers your questions
guardian.co.uk
14 mentions — 2 days 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 ...
R.I.P. Michael Hastings
salon.com
2 mentions — 11 hours ago
Topics:BuzzFeed,Rolling Stone,Michael Hastings,obituary,Journalism,Gen. Stanley McChrystal,MSNBC,Philippe Reines,R.I.P, Media News, Politics News There are so few committed truth-tellers
Neo-Miniaturist Imran Qureshi on His Rooftop Painting for the Met | Artinfo
BLOUIN ARTINFO
2 mentions — 20 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 — 2 days 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.
Hunter Hayes | Country Music Videos, News, Photos, Tour Dates | CMT
CMT
3 mentions — 14 hours ago
Among the many extraordinary things about Hunter Hayes, the multi-talented musician, writer, producer and performer, perhaps what is most astonishing is that in truth, he’s just getting started. And it is that fact which holds the promise of Hunter Hayes becoming one of the most significant musical talents ...
Financial Sector Thinks It’s About Ready To Ruin World Again
theonion.com
2 mentions — 18 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 ...
Is the Film Industry 'Imploding'? Indiewire's Influencers Respond
Indiewire
5 mentions — 17 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 ...
Will Season Four Of ‘Downton Abbey’ Finally Show The Wizards Using Their Powers?
theonion.com
2 mentions — 17 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 ...
Missing Michael Hastings
buzzfeed.com
5 mentions — 7 hours ago
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write.posted on June 19, 2013 at 12:12am EDT Michael Hastings was really only interested in writing stories someone didn’t want him to write — often ...
Andrew W.K. to Pound Skins for 24 Hours in Latest Stunt
spin.com
2 mentions — 2 days 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 ...
Jill Lepore: Privacy in an Age of Publicity
The New Yorker
3 mentions — 2 days ago
The defense of privacy always follows the emergence of technologies for breaching it. Illustration by Nishant Choksi.An extraordinary fuss about eavesdropping started in the spring of 1844, when Giuseppe Mazzini, an Italian exile in London, became convinced that the British government was opening his mail. Mazzini, a revolutionary ...
Paper Trail: Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Pitchfork
5 mentions — 6 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 — 17 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 — 20 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 ...
Robbie Myers: Yes, Women's Magazines Can Do Serious Journalism. We've Been Doing It For A While
ELLE
3 mentions — 15 hours ago
The Twitterverse blew up recently over a magazine cover: specifically, the cover of Port that touted “A New Golden Age” of print media over a photo of six white male magazine editors. There were a few, um, interest groups who took issue with it, and the assertion that ...
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 — 2 days 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 — 2 days 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 ...
L.A. looms larger than rock in 'Levitated Mass' film
latimes.com
2 mentions — 10 hours ago
'Levitated Mass'Alisa Katz seems amazed with artist Michael Heizer's "Levitated Mass," which opened to the public at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on June 24, 2012. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times /June 24, 2012)In the year it has been at the Los Angeles County Museum ...
GOP plan to appeal to millennials: “Make abortion funny”
salon.com
2 mentions — 23 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
On view now through January 5 at the...
culturaltourismdc.tumblr.com
2 mentions — 15 hours ago
On view now through January 5 at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery are 26 portraits by artist Boris Chaliapin, most of which appeared on Time magazine’s cover during his 28-year career. Chaliapin was the portrait artist Time magazine’s editors turned to first when they needed a cover in ...
"What Part of 'Politico' Do You Not Understand?"
New Republic
3 mentions — 22 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 — 3 days ago
Topics:Movies,Politics,Surveillance,technology,surveillance state,surveillance society,1984,Barack Obama,George Orwell,Aldous Huxley,
The Best of Bonnaroo 2013 Pictures - Paul McCartney | Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
2 mentions — 2 days ago
As a festival, Bonnaroo has come to be defined by its diversity – Malian worldbeat duo Amadou and Mariam, bookish indie stars Grizzly Bear and hip-hop legends the Wu-Tang Clan performed within hours of each other on Friday. But the main-stage headliner always plays unopposed, the idea being ...
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 — 2 days 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 — 16 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 — 17 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 — 1 day 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 ...
Kickstart Sound Poetry, Ken Berman’s Jazz Album Inspired by Allen Ginsberg & Bob Dylan
Open Culture
3 mentions — 18 hours ago
Here’s a chance to be a patron of the arts on whatever scale you can afford. Last week Ken Berman, a San Francisco-based jazz musician (and the teacher of an excellent Bob Dylan class at Stanford) launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the recording of an album called ...