Eigentlich müssten die Männer mir leidtun. Denn es heißt ja, Männer neigten zum Selbstmitleid. Und ich werde ständig dazu eingeladen, mich in meiner Eigenschaft als Mann selbst zu bedauern: keine Woche, in der nicht ein Zeitschriften-Aufmacher erscheint oder ein Fernsehbeitrag läuft, in dem es um…

Das ist sehr interessant: Wie Russland laut Dokumenten eine Heerschar von Kampfpostern beschäftigt http://t.co/zRp2fTaGzs via @dhmschmidt

The ease & simplicity of Gmail, available across devices CREATE AN ACCOUNT Get Gmail Meet your new inbox New customizable tabs put you backin control so that you can see what’snew at a glance and decide whichemails you want to read and when. New customizable tabs put you back in control so that…

The Moscow International Open Book Festival is an annual event in which writers, poets, translators, graphic designers, and publishers meet with readers in tents outside a large exposition hall. There are also dance and music performances and workshops. Cookbook authors offer freshly prepared food.…

[Image: Flickr user mmarchin ] This story contains interviews with Adam Rodnitzky, co-creator of the Structure Sensor; Daniel Cowen, a cofounder of 3Doodler; Jan Goetgeluk, creator of the Omni; Michael Armani, creator of the Micro; Severin Marcombes, a cofounder of Lima; and Phil Bosua, a cofounder…

Getting that all-important first review for your self-published comic can seem like a daunting task. The ever burgeoning pool of new small press talent currently out there producing exciting work – and taking the initiative to publish it in physical form themselves – is a wonderful thing to behold.…

Greetings, all! Your friendly neighborhood post-apocalyptic fake mailman here, ready to answer your letters! And, apparently, deliver a bunch of Chinese restaurant menus? I have no idea where they're coming from. I just open my mailbag and they're already in there. It's kind of freaking me out.…

Sunday night’s episode of Game Of Thrones took an even darker turn than usual: Jaime Lannister, who has transitioned from one of the story’s villains to one of its heroes, takes the opportunity of his son’s death to rape his sister and lover, Cersei—in the Westerosi equivalent of a church, while…

Fabulous Flop: How Howard the Duck Changed Hollywood George Lucas’ first big post- Star Wars project was an adaptation of a little-known comic book. Here’s the story of how Howard the Duck almost destroyed his career… but led to the creation of a Hollywood goldmine. In 1983, George Lucas released…

The cover of a publishing project is a precious thing. In the book world, each cover is agonized over, sometimes for more than a year, with input from sales, marketing, editorial and others. In magazines, everything from seasonally appropriate coloring to visibility while sitting on a newsstand is…

Nichts davon steckt in der Baustelle, an der ich danach stoppe. Eng an die backsteinerne Fassade der Friedrichswerderschen Kirche schmiegend, werden hier Penthäuser und Eigentumswohnungen hochgezogen – vom hauseigenen Dachpool aus lässt sich dem Gottesdienst eh viel besser beiwohnen. Wieder eine…

Die beste Freundin von Jennifer Lawrence beschreibt, wie es bei den Oscars so ist - als Nobody. https://t.co/GrAJZiiiii

KOBLENZ. In populärwissenschaftlichen Büchern wie „Digitale Demenz“ von Manfred Spitzer wird über die schädlichen Auswirkungen von digitalen Medien berichtet und vor der Nutzung des Internets gewarnt. Medienpsychologen der Universität Koblenz-Landau zeigen, dass Spitzers Thesen mit…

We already know True Detective writer-creator Nic Pizzolatto is a comics nerd . And for weeks, fans have speculated about comic-book influences on the show . But in the final scene of season one, did we get our first specific, near-verbatim tribute to one of Pizzolatto's favorite comics scribes?…

Auf meinem Weg zur Haustür komme ich an mehreren Ladengeschäften vorbei und in einem von ihnen erblicke ich aus dem Augenwinkel einen Fotorahmen im Fenster. Obwohl ich gerade eigentlich nichts lieber möchte, als endlich anzukommen, gehe ich ein paar Schritte zurück, um die Schrift über dem…

Economies change and places move on. If the cultural and business attitude of Shoreditch is spreading out of this always vibrant area, maybe that’s not such a bad thing. I grew up in the east end ofLondon in the 1970s and 80s. For those familiar with the place, it should notcome as any surprise to…

Michael Otto at his corporate headquarters in Hamburg, Germany. (Photo by Wolfgang Wilde For Forbes) Michael Otto’s family has been as omnipresent in German postwar retail as Wal-Mart, Sears and Target have in the U.S. So what does this 70-year-old patriarch of this $18 billion clan most want to…

Finnland, ein kleines, von der Welt unbeachtetes, dunkles Land am nördlichen Rand von Europa, hat fünf Mio. Einwohner. Es besitzt weitläufige Wälder, die Leningrad Cowboys, Aki Kaurismäki, eine hohe Selbstmordquote – und eine kleine, aber sehr aktive Comicszene, von der in letzter Zeit erstaunlich…

By Jennifer Saba NEW YORK, Feb 24 (Reuters) - BuzzFeed has come a long way from cat lists. This month one of its journalists was on the ground in Kiev reporting on the crisis in Ukraine, and last December it published an in-depth article on a Chinese dissident living in Harlem, New York. The kittens…

Notes on six years of music and tech / OMM #13 Photo: David Emery Last Friday the final OpenMusicMedia took place in London. Six years ago, Dave Haynes and Jonas Woost decided to get a bunch of folks together in a pub for regular discussions on the future of music, media, and technology — Anthony…

With the Eleventh Doctor now passed into Whovian memory, it would seem that the Era of River Song has ended as well. And while it should be bittersweet, it is also honestly something of a relief. Let me be clear—I happen to love River Song. Well, let me be clearer… I love what River Song might have…

A colleague of mine was talking to me recently about her misgivings about her capabilities regarding writing Women of Color. She wanted very badly to include several WOC characters in her sci-fantasy series, but she had some concerns about correct portrayal and writing them in a way that wouldn’t…

Listen · 4:48 4:48 Download Embed < iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/259408158/259886026" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript Robert Indiana first emerged as a pop artist in the early 1960s, but he was quickly defined by…

Erfolgreichster deutscher Film 2013: Fack ju Göhte. Foto: Constantin Film Kommerz und Kunst – nur nichts dazwischen. Das deutsche Kino ist in der Krise. Die Filmproduzenten sind gegenüber den Verwertern im Nachteil, die Filmförderung liegt im Argen. Der Kinofilm ist zweierlei: ein wirtschaftliches…

A little while back, I was asked on twitter :if tech conferencesare, for women, an experience that's dangerous at worst anduncomfortable at best, how do we go about fixing it? This is rather a big question—basically akin to "how do we eliminatesexism in society?" Conferences are a microcosm of the…

Nach nur zwei Jahren muss Karl Addison seine Galerie schließen. Unsere Autorin besuchte den Künstler Karl Addison in dessen Galerie „Idrawalot“, die am kommenden Donnerstag, den 05.12.2013, zum letzten Mal ihre Türen öffnet. Für Karl Addison, dem Gründer der Galerie und des Kunstverkaufsraumes „…

Billie Piper (with John Hurt in the background) in ‘The Day of the Doctor.’ (Photo: BBC AMERICA) Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat , clearly on a high from the achievement of “The Day of the Doctor,” its astronomical U.K. ratings , and Guinness book world record for biggest TV drama simulcast,…

The period was always the humblest of punctuation marks. Recently, however, it’s started getting angry. I’ve noticed it in my text messages and online chats, where people use the period not simply to conclude a sentence, but to announce “I am not happy about the sentence I just concluded.” Say you…

Rail-thin, mop-topped, and Vulcan-faced, 4chan founder Christopher Poole , 25, is following a fan to his car, parked in an Atlanta parking lot at 2 in the morning. He's got something to show Poole, the guy says. He opens his trunk, and inside is a Mosin-Nagant, a Russian rifle known around the…