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Pure Poison: The Weekend Shooting, Ray Rice and a Culture of Violence Against Women

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Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice speaks to the media for the first time since his arrest for assaulting his fiance Janay (right), now his wife, at a casino in Atlantic City, N.J. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) If a mass killing perpetrated by a deeply disturbed misogynist does not make us look at…

May 27, 2014

What It's Like to Be a Billionaire's Butler

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Call it Downton Abbey syndrome: The newest trend among the world' s ultra-rich—like, royalty-grade, private-plane-owning Scrooge McDuck rich—is to have a butler. But what type of person would willingly give over his life to serving the outrageously moneyed? As ** David Katz ** discovers, these are…

May 27, 2014

Europe’s Secret Success - NYTimes.com

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SINTRA, Portugal — I’ll be spending the next couple of days at a forum sponsored by the European Central Bank whose de facto topic — whatever it may say on the program — will be the destructive monetary muddle caused by the Continent’s premature adoption of a single currency. What makes the story…

May 27, 2014

Smile, You’re on Worldwide Webcam | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.

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A half-dozen puppies pounce, leap and roll, chasing each other around an indoor playroom. A young man in a gray beanie gets digitally fingerprinted by a Boston cop. A Japanese school marching band practices its routine, forming straight lines that break and twist into different formations, then…

May 27, 2014

The Worst Day Of My Life Is Now New York's Hottest Tourist Attraction

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STAN HONDA / AFP / Getty Images During the noisy, chaotic third week of September 2001, my father wrote letters to the New York Times and the Post , and was published in both, asking simply that the press stop calling his daughter, who'd been murdered on live television a few days earlier, a hero.…

May 26, 2014

Alex Trebek Is the Last King of the American Middlebrow | New Republic

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The set of “Jeopardy!” was given a shiny makeover last year, in preparation for the quiz show’s fiftieth birthday. The new look features that familiar, top-heavy, bubble-letter logo and a gorgeously tacky sunset backdrop that provides an odd companion to the sexless blue-and-white board. In…

May 26, 2014

Memories Of My 16-Year Career In Video Games

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After 16 years covering the game industry, playing hundreds of games and interviewing thousands of people, I've slowly developed a catalog of life events tied around memories of games. If I'm trying to recall a time when something happened, my mind quickly jumps to what I was playing, where I was…

May 24, 2014

Everything Is Broken — The Message — Medium

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Once upon a time, a friend of mine accidentally took over thousands of computers. He had found a vulnerability in a piece of software and started playing with it. In the process, he figured out how to get total administration access over a network. He put it in a script, and ran it to see what would…

May 23, 2014

Don't Blame Your Kids; You're Just a Crappy Friend

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If you’ve been anywhere on social media in the last week or so, chances are you’ve seen this article making the rounds: “ Once We Become Parents, We Don’t Want to Hang Out With You Anymore (But Not for the Reasons You Think) .” It’s just the latest in a neverending series of sanctimonious screeds…

May 23, 2014

Quentin Tarantino declares ‘death of cinema’ at Cannes | Toronto Star

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Fri., May 23, 2014 CANNES, FRANCE—A black-clad Quentin Tarantino strode into the Cannes Film Festival Friday to declare “the death of cinema as I know it” as celluloid finally succumbs to digital projection. The outspoken U.S. director, at Cannes to celebrate the 20th anniversary his Palme d’Or win…

May 23, 2014

Spider-Trans*: Arcade Fire’s Unhelpful “We Exist” Video

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The 10th Annual Gay Games, Paris 2018 "So to me, the gay games represents a life time of practice and dedication to a sport that has given me almost everything I am. The fact that it is a LGBTQ+ community event only makes it that much more special to me. I will be meeting hundreds of people who…

May 23, 2014

Five great shots from Pulp Fiction in honor of its 20th anniversary

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On Friday, May 23 , Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman—and possibly John Travolta as well—will host a special screening of Pulp Fiction in Cannes, where the movie debuted 20 years ago. Pulp Fiction won the Palme d’Or that year, then became a major hit in the U.S., where the film’s dialogue, narrative…

May 23, 2014

Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time

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Even this man is essentially just winging it. Photograph: Yuri Gripas/Reuters Amid the acrimony surrounding the firing of Jill Abramson , executive editor of the New York Times, there's one point of near-universal consensus: the whole thing was remarkably poorly handled. (Even the Times's publisher,…

May 22, 2014

Atom Egoyan Discusses Seeking Truth with DEVIL'S KNOT

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The case of the West Memphis Three has been dissected, inspected and interpreted for years. In 1994 three teenagers were tried and convicted of the murder of three young boys in Memphis, Arkansas. They were accused of involving Satanic ritual in the killing. During their life sentence in jail, their…

May 21, 2014

RIP Gordon Willis, 1931–2014: The View from Dallas, Texas

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Try to sympathize with me, for a second: Dallas, Texas was a very difficult place to grow up during the 1980s. Put more specifically, it was a difficult place to grow up if you were artistically minded or vulnerable or smart, all of which I was. (I think.) Cars were important. Money was important.…

May 20, 2014

What If We Admitted to Children That Sex Is About Pleasure?

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(Photo: xNstAbLe/Shutterstock) A couple of months ago, the sex education notice came home in my nine-year-old son's backpack. I didn't realize that, in our district, sex ed starts in the fourth grade. Another sign of the state having more access to my baby than I sometimes wish. When I handed the…

May 17, 2014

Should We Colonize the Moon? And How Much Would It Cost?

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(Photo: Photobank gallery/Shutterstock) Russia, according to one report , is planning to colonize the moon by 2030. While this news may be speculative, alarmist, or possibly not even based in reality, we still wanted to know if moon colonization in 16 years is even possible. So we asked Dr. Nadine…

May 17, 2014

All Girls to the Front: Sini Anderson Talks ‘The Punk Singer’ and Kathleen Hanna | Tribeca

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Sometimes the only way to let your voice be heard is through the art you create. Sini Anderson ’s intimate documentary, explores the life of punk rock feminist and musician Kathleen Hanna who has indeed let her voice be heard.. From her early days as the frontwoman of Bikini Kill to her mysterious…

May 16, 2014