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- TV will change the world 10:52am Nov 10
- An Open Letter on Adaptations 2:00am Nov 6
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From Foreign Policy: Why TV, not Facebook or Twitter, is going to revolutionize the world. Indeed, television, that 1920s technology so many of us take for granted, is still coming to tens of millions with a transformative power — for the good — that the world is only now coming to understand. Th...
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New Yorkers: come out tonight for a gallery opening and show at our publisher's space in midtown Manhattan!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=17
IAM Gallery Opening
Location:IAM Space 38|39
Time:7:00PM Friday, November 6th
Book-to-movie adaptations: how do we watch them? Okay, look — you’ve told me a few times that the book is better than the movie. Did you know that I read the book, too? Honestly, I also like it better than the movie. I guess the folks that adapted it for the screen really left out a lot. Tw...
Photo: Andrea Leganza My grandfather is dying again. I know because my mom called. And she knows because Aunty Cathy called her. This is the fourth time in two years my mom has called me with this news; the fourth time, she got the call from Aunty Cathy...
Photo: Rebecca Brame It was the suckiest letter I ever received. One friend pored over the words and responded, “It reads vindictive. How could someone speak this way about your beautiful writing? ...
From the Telegraph: The secret behind Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile. Now scientists claim to have come up with an answer to her changing moods – our eyes are sending mixed signals to the brain. Th...
From the New York Times: Pushing Fresh Produce Instead of Cookies at the Corner Market. Until recently, small corner grocery stores were seen by public health officials as part of theobesity problem...
From the Wall Street Journal: The Art World Goes Local. At the height of the boom, art collectors scrambled to acquire works by top artists from rising markets including China, Russia, India and the Middle East...
Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish in Bright Star (This essay contains a few spoilers, but they’re not so bad if you already know Keats’s biography.) A film about a Romantic poet’s romance could so easily be cringe-worthy. I surveyed the movie poster as I bought tickets. It f...
From icanhascheezburger.com, a site filled with cats being funny. Balloon Boy. Sneezing Panda. Sleepwalking Dog. There is a sort of warped existence in this world that controls much of the way we interpret humor and mystery...
From The Chronicle of Higher Education: Confessions of a Middlebrow Professor. Unlike the independent highbrows and unself-conscious lowbrows, middlebrows, it seems, are so invested in “getting on in life” that they do not really like anything unless it has been approved by their betters. Fo...
The GOOD Magazine 100. Our collection of the most important, exciting, and innovative people, ideas, and projects making our world better.
From The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Millenial Muddle: How stereotyping students became a thriving industry and a bundle of contradictions. Figuring out young people has always been a chore, but today it’s also an industry. ...
Photo: Sam Plant A few years out of high school, I became a big fan of Sixpence None the Richer. I haven’t listened to the band in years, but I still remember one particular EP which remained in heavy rotation. ...
