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If you missed last night’s American Music Awards, you mostly missed the usual awards show stuff: a performance by Coldplay, an award sponsored by T-Mobile, Justin Bieber in ill-fitting clothing. But there was one surprise: a new scene from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Oh, and an a cappella rendition of Star Wars theme music…
Wikimedia CommonsCredit Suisse analyst Robert Moskow can’t believe how expensive his Thanksgiving turkey was this year. On Hormel’s fourth quarter earnings call on Tuesday, Moskow opened his question to Hormel management by noting that he just bought his turkey at Stop & Shop. And boy was it expensive. Here’s Moskow, via Seeking Alpha: “Hey there….
NYC EDC City officials broke ground Monday on Hunter’s Point South Phase II, a massive affordable housing and commercial complex in Long Island City. Plans also include a waterfront park – seen in this rendering. City officials broke ground Monday on the latest phase of a massive affordable housing complex on a former…
Check if there is a lead inset render main article body Ever since the global financial crisis, economists have groped for reasons to explain why growth in the U.S. and abroad has repeatedly disappointed, citing everything from fiscal austerity to the euro meltdown. They are now coming to realize that one of the stiffest headwinds…
coins metadata inserted by kblog-metadata The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative. Individuals and groups are admissible in so far as they come within the State. Instead of directing the game…
This essay, which is featured in our forthcoming Winter issue, was originally given as a lecture during the 2015 Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop. It was met with enthusiastic applause. Some Exposition fff Until recently I was a professor at a private liberal arts university in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, a little town located at the exact point…
Meet Jackie Biskupski, the openly gay mayor of Salt Lake City who just won the election campaigning on municipal issues, of all things. This is big news—because Biskupski is a lesbian—in Utah—no joke! Utah, the state with all the Mormons. Where that judge who didn’t like lesbians lives. http://gawker.com/utah-family-co… And sure, none of that really…
Time for your weekly edition of the Deadspin Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we’re covering farting, pizza, golf, TV decades, and more. Your letters: Phil: I saw a proud parent post a picture of their child on Facebook the other day with no shirt on (female child). This made me…
Hollywood recycles plots and story lines all the time. The same actors and actresses and directors are put in movies over and over. And the same sets are used to film completely different movies. It’s an incestuous industry. Sometimes when you’re watching a movie and you can’t quite put your finger down on why a…
52 years ago today, Doctor Who aired for the very first time—and two years ago, it took over the world as it broadcast “The Day of the Doctor,” the show’s 50th anniversary special. But the celebration was, according to Steven Moffat, nearly a total disaster: and somehow almost didn’t star The Doctor at all. It…