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‘Selma’, ‘The Imitation Game’ And Rewriting The Past: Should We Expect More Accuracy When It Comes To Biopics? By Dave Crewe 19/1/15 end article header It’s fair to say that a lot of people were unhappy about the Oscar nominations announcement on Thursday. While nerds raged at The Lego Movie’s snubbing, the bulk of the…
Photo Credit Robert Wright for The New York Times close shareTools Modern Farmer, the 100,000-circulation quarterly and website that tried to link effete urban farmers’ market culture with the practicalities of actual farming, became a magazine without an editorial staff on Friday, when its remaining paid editors walked out its doors. The future of what…
Sports Illustrated has no more photographers on staff, News Photographer magazine reports. The magazine famous for pictures of sports and photo spreads of models in bathing suits fired all six of its staff photographers yesterday. “Our commitment to photography hasn’t changed,” Sports Illustrated director of photography Brad Smith told News Photographer, despite no longer having photographers on staff…
Bad news for people who love absurd workout gadgets, hair-growing laser helmets, bizarre shape-altering underwear, gnomes, and generally wasting time on a long flight: SkyMall is dead. Katy Stech, bankruptcy reporter at The Wall Street Journal, tweeted this morning that the company behind the in-flight catalog has officially filed for bankruptcy. The SkyMall catalog filed…
Alan Menken, the songwriter behind Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast — to name just a few — has given Entertainment Weekly the story behind a number of his most famous songs. Some are pretty basic, some are funny, and some tell of frustrating directors. But the one that is a laser-guided missile…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Virtual reality promises a lot of potential changes to the way we experience the world, but the ramifications it has for how we tell stories might be among the most interesting. Vice News is offering a glimpse into what news broadcasting might look like when VR is omnipresent with a report…
If you want to quantify the alarming impact of the anti-vaccine movement, the chart above is a good place to start. It plots the cumulative number of new measles cases by month, for each year from 2001 to 2014. There were 644 new measles cases in 27 states last year, according to the CDC. That’s the…
It finally happened. This morning the European Central Bank actually pulled the trigger, launching an unfettered quantitative easing program, essentially creating new money and using it to buy government bonds. Here’s what you need to know. First off, the European economy is in terrible shape. Unemployment is, and has been, very high. It was 11.5%…
Q AMERICA’S Federal Reserve surprised markets in December by starting to “taper” (ie, gradually reduce) its programme of monthly purchases of government and mortgage bonds—a process known as “quantitative easing”, or QE—from $85 billion a month to $75 billion. Some worry that scaling back QE could endanger America’s recovery or create financial instability in emerging…
Anthony D’Amato sings and writes in the tradition of Bruce Springsteen or Josh Ritter: His songs sound friendly musically, but they also tackle the difficult and the twisted. Like those great songwriters, D’Amato’s work is universal without devolving into moping. There’s also a spirit to these songs, as it’s easy to imagine a crowd spontaneously…