Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Harley Quinn Smith, daughter of director Kevin Smith, was recently standing outside a Brentwood Starbucks waiting for an Uber when two men pulled up in a beige car and tried to convince her that they were her ride. They were not. She described the scary situation on Instagram: I was just standing outside a Starbucks…
Two Virginia Tech students, a man and a woman, are accused of carefully plotting the murder of a 13-year-old girl, prosecutors said Thursday. David Eisenhauer, 18, and Natalie Keepers, 19, are charged in connection with Nicole Lovell’s death. An anonymous law enforcement source told CNN they believe the motive for the crime was to conceal…
It came as little surprise that Samantha Bee’s new show, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, has one of the most diverse writers rooms in television. A recent New York profile of Bee revealed that she and showrunner Jo Miller cast a wider hiring net for the specific purpose of finding diverse talent; the result is…
As part of their promotion of “Sweater Day,” an event designed to reduce energy use during the winter months, Simon Fraser University released a rather ill-advised video. In the promotional video, an actress playing a female faculty member lowers the thermostat, takes off her glasses, puts on a pink sweater, and shakes out her long…
Apologies for the Bill Maher clip, but here’s feminist icon Gloria Steinem offering an interesting theory as to why so many young women are supporting Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary Clinton. In the middle of a larger discussion about the Democratic primary, Steinem said: “Women are more for [Hillary Clinton] than men are…First of all,…
My boyfriend asked me to marry him on Christmas Eve. It was simple and straightforward, not unlike our relationship. He posed a sincere and direct question to which I provided a sincere and direct response. It was easy. Love isn’t all that complicated, I don’t think. That’s why we say we fall into it, passively…
The WP REST API team met yesterday in the #core-restapi Slack channel to discuss the status of the existing post, term, user, and comment endpoints. There are a few outstanding issues with these four core objects, which the team wants to tackle via a feature plugin approach instead of holding the API back from merge….
A 38-year-old man who had just stepped out of his parked car was killed and four others injured when a construction crane toppled over and smashed into a busy Tribeca street Friday morning, officials said. The crane crashed into a row of parked cars when it capsized onto Worth St. near Church St. about…
When the popular YouTubers known as the Fine Brothers speak about their work — specifically, a series of online videos where people of various age groups “react” to pop culture and Internet phenomena — they often speak in terms of creating “time capsules” for future generations to watch and understand how we viewed the world…
(Amy King/The Washington Post; iStock) In the aftermath of an E. coli outbreak at Chipotle that sickened dozens of people across the United States last fall and led to an overhaul of the company’s food safety practices, Americans reacted by avoiding the beloved fast-food chain. Restaurants that once sported long lines were suddenly empty, a phenomenon that was almost…