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On a visit to Greece, we talk to a guy who found an ingenious place to hoard his cash, a government-protected milk peddler, and a would-be olive oil tycoon. Music: Jahzzar’s “Fireworks” and Bad Bad Hat’s “Fight Song.” Find us:Twitter/ Facebook/ Spotify/ Tumblr. Episode 639: Where To Hide €50,000, And Other Stories From Greece :…
Having narrowly escaped prosecution for her treasonous acts against America’s pride and pastries, poorly trained kitten Ariana Grande still faces the court of public opinion for her recent donut-licking rampage—a court where the promise of spittle-free donuts is the only reason jurors even show up in the morning. Grande has since apologized for allowing her…
Did you miss Bethesda’s Fallout 4 presentation during the Xbox press event at E3? Do you wish you could see it again, without anybody talking over it? Would you like to watch it again just because, hey, it’s Fallout 4? Whatever your reason, now is your chance. The trailer runs about 5 and a half minutes,…
Our union drive has expressed at every stage of the process that one of our core goals is to protect the editorial independence of Gawker Media sites from the influence of business-side concerns. Today’s unprecedented breach of the firewall, in which business executives deleted an editorial post over the objections of the entire executive editorial…
Meet the Timmy brothers. They wear beanies in the summer, and they have created something important, unique and special. They have created…water. “You talk about wetness, or moistness,” they say, eyes squinty with gravitas. “Mark Twain.” “Hand-crafted.” “Straight razor.” Squint. Hand gesture! A two-beat pause, to let it sink in. In some cases, more squinting….
article start “Trainwreck,” the new Amy Schumer comedy, has a strong female protagonist who does things her own way – one small step for feminism and one giant leap for Hollywood. But the movie also advances a misleading trope about working women that is starting to get a little tired: the female journalist who hooks…
Yahoo has filed with the SEC to spin off its remaining shares of Alibaba Group into a new public company called Aabaco Holdings. Yahoo announced the spinoff plan in January, and says Aabaco Holdings will launch in the fourth quarter of 2015. The new company will hold 384 million shares of Alibaba Group stock totaling 15 percent of company….
Inside the main dining room at Le Diplomate, on 14th Street NW. (Amanda Voisard/For the Washington Post) For much of America, it was a long, slow crawl out of the Great Recession. Five years ago, auto and steel plants had shut their doors. Investments had collapsed. Foreclosures and unemployment were spiking. Yet in D.C., it…
Marvel’s latest superhero movie, Ant-Man, is very well made. It has some good action and a few really clever bits. There are some funny parts, along with some not-that-funny parts. This movie pretty much gets the job done. But it’s not particularly memorable, or especially amazing. Minor spoilers ahead… In a sense, Ant-Man shows how…
A lot of Pixar films come packaged with a quasi-humanist narrative hook that enables the public digestion of their work. Viewers nodded thoughtfully over WALL-E’s depiction of a future earth choked by the refuse of big-box retail, and of a human race infantilized and rendered obese by mindless consumption, while Brave was the first Pixar…