Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
On the night of May 1, the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava Church in Manhattan caught fire — and Celeste Katz, a reporter based in New York, was on it. She went straight to the scene and started recording footage live, for Facebook. This would have all made perfect sense if Katz was a metro reporter…
LFDHDaryl Hall is the taller, more visible half of Hall & Oates, one of the best-selling musical duos of all time who, despite being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, never quite got the sort of critical love that many other inductees have generated. Hall and John Oates met while attending Temple…
The men shouting to women from fire escapes and construction cranes to tell them that they “look beautiful,” or that they should “smile more,” never seem to understand why the subjects of their “compliments” never seem to take them in stride. But one tweet from author Kate Harding offers a succinct explanation for why women…
At the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this July, 100 naked women will stand facing the Quicken Loans Arena holding large, round mirrors. They’ll be part of artist Spencer Tunick’s latest large-scale art installation: “Everything She Says Means Everything.” The New York-based artist has been planning this project since 2013—back when Donald Trump was…
Shortly after the starters for Pokémon Sun and Moon were revealed yesterday, the internet exploded with love for the new monsters. Well, mostly. While Rowlet (the owl) and Litten (the cat) were showered with seemingly endless positive tweets, comments, and enthusiastic fan art, one Pokémon seemed to be left on the sidelines: Popplio, the water…
Apparently, once you bleed purple, you never stop. At least that is the case in the sale of Yahoo, which is now in its second phase of bids from prospective buyers that include strategics like Verizon, as well as private equity firms like TPG, Sycamore Partners and the pairing of Vista Equity Partners and Bain…
By Eliza Gray/Detmold More than 70 years later, the prosecution of a 94-year-old former SS guard renews questions about how to assign blame for the Holocaust On a cold, gray morning in February, Irene Weiss was waiting patiently in the courtroom in Detmold, a small city in northern Germany. She had come a long way…
One of the most effective ways to get people to click and read stories is also the simplest: personalize content for them based on what they’re already reading. To promote some of its biggest stories, The Washington Post has experimented with “pop-up” newsletters. Sent to the Post’s existing email subscribers (who don’t opt in), the…
It is one of the last taboos – a woman who dares to say she does not want children. So when writer Holly Brockwell, then aged 26, asked doctors to sterilise her, she unleashed a storm. First, NHS staff said she was too young. Then the personal abuse rained down, much of it vile. It…
A FRIEND of mine complains about how many of the men she meets on Tinder use corporate language to chat her up. First, they “reach out.” Then, after spending the night together, they “follow up.” This kind of flirting is banal, but it makes sense. We constantly use economic metaphors to describe romantic and sexual…