Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
When Samya Moftah walked into the Macy’s flagship New York store looking for gifts for her family last summer, she did not expect to be locked in a basement cell and charged with multiple crimes. Nor did the department store, already blighted by allegations of racism, expect to have another lawsuit on its hands. Moftah,…
The Power Rangers may remain on TV until the end of time, but there’s one thing that always changes: their uniforms. Some are stylish, some are understated, some are bonkers—and it’s high time that they were ranked. All of them. Here is every single set of outfits worn by the various iterations of the Power…
The cable guys had their turn. Now the production side of the entertainment industry is beginning its own consolidation phase. John Malone and Mark Rachesky, two shrewd negotiators, finally came to an agreement on a deal that seemed to be more than a year in the making: Lions Gate Entertainment, the movie studio whose biggest shareholder is…
The nation’s oldest full-time park ranger was brutally attacked in her San Francisco Bay Area home after a robber broke in and stole a coin she received from President Barack Obama. According to Fox News, 94-year-old Betty Reid Soskin, who works as an interpretive ranger at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front…
/end .figure This is not a joke. Hillary’s team had talked to me a few weeks back about doing something, but I didn’t want to do, like, a “If Hillary Were Your President” type thing, and then they got in touch on Wednesday and said she wanted to write something HERSELF (it seems her people…
Over the past few decades, the US economy has undergone a profound change. This change has helped rich Americans get richer. But it has also contributed to growing income inequality and the decline of the middle class. And, in so doing, it has fueled populist anger across the political spectrum and slowed the growth…
As you might imagine, a porn star takes her lingerie drawer very seriously. “This is the working lingerie desk,” says Stoya, gesturing to a vintage-looking writing desk in her Brooklyn apartment. “It’s for sets that are special for me but haven’t been shot, things I haven’t worn on-camera. They live here.” Up the staircase…
Raymond Williams said, “A difficulty arises with the whole concept of masses … There are in fact no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses.” (H/T Jay Rosen) Part I of this comic reveals what happens when the news industry treats people as masses (aka “the audience”). It’s a categorical error. When newsrooms…
Tetris, the 1980s video game about stacking blocks, is being made into not one, but three films, according to Empire. Producer Larry Kasanoff is lining up a trilogy about the GameBoy favourite, which featured the simple but addictive formula of shuffling falling shapes into corresponding gaps. “The story we conceived is so big,” said Kasanoff….