Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Was I raped? In 1998, I was 24 years old. Somehow, though I have zero musical talent, I found myself in a band—as the vocalist, no less. We didn’t perform anywhere, although I think that might have been the ultimate goal. Really, we just met up at a studio in Jersey City, where I lived…
View this image › 1978. Van Buren, Arkansas, Bill Clinton on a visit to Juanita Broaddrick’s (right) nursing home Getty Images / Getty Images ID: 7761199 NBC News pursued, but ultimately did not obtain, an on-air interview with Juanita Broddrick, the woman who 17 years ago publicly accused Bill Clinton of sexually assaulting her in…
Photo: Diane Bondareff/AP Photo. A (formerly) pregnant woman in New York City has an Uber horror story that will definitely beat yours, no matter how long your driver listened to the Dave Matthews Band. Fortune reports that when David Lee’s wife went into labor last November, they ordered an Uber to take them and…
Begin: WordPress Article Content GoPro’s stock dropped 23.34% to 10.87 Wednesday afternoon after the company announced its Q4 was worse than expected. The stock was already trading at an all-time low. The stock briefly jumped to 11.20 before trading was halted. The company has a market cap of about $2 billion in after-hour values. This…
Alejandro Aravena of Chile, whose work is modest, practical, and exceptionally elegant, has been awarded the 2016 Pritzker Prize. Last year, the jury for the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the most celebrated award in architecture, selected the German architect Frei Otto, who was 89 when he got the good news. Otto died two weeks later and…
Joshua Topolsky, co-founding editor of our Vox Media sister site* The Verge and most recently head of digital at Bloomberg, is working on a new digital media project that will cover a broad range of topics including politics, culture and business. The holding company name is Independent Media, and the new site, which doesn’t have a name…
Executives of Al Jazeera America (AJAM) today are holding a meeting at 2 pm Eastern Time to tell their employees that the company is terminating all news and digital operations in the U.S. as of April, 2016, resulting in the loss of hundreds of jobs. The announcement marks a stunning and rapid collapse of what, from the…
Last we checked, Cuomo had never ridden an MTA bus (Governor’s Office). Governor Andrew Cuomo has spent the week running from press conference to press conference, trash-talking New York City’s railways, airports and transit hubs even as he promises to make them grander, glassier, and, he hopes, more efficient. On Friday morning, the MTA…
Governor Cuomo’s announcement last week that 30 subway stations would be completely closed for months at a time in order to properly “revamp” them was greeted with groans by riders. But a disruption of epic proportions potentially looms for New Yorkers who rely on the L train to get in and out of Manhattan. Like…
paging_filter Al Jazeera, which made a massive investment in covering the United States less than three years ago, is slamming the brakes on its American operation. Al Jazeera America, a cable news channel that debuted in August 2013, is shutting down. Employees were informed of the decision during an all-hands staff meeting on Wednesday afternoon….