by | Aug 21, 2019 | Culture Music Art, Mirth
from The New York Times A Popeyes Chicken Sandwich and a Tactic to Set Off a Twitter Roar “Look at how much attention they’re getting — it’s impressive,” the executive editor of a trade magazine said. Chick-fil-A, above, took on its rival Popeyes in a social-media...
by | Aug 20, 2019 | Culture Music Art, Literary News, Projects
from THE LIST Sam Taylor-Johnson would never want to repeat Fifty Shades directing experience Sam Taylor-Johnson Sam Taylor-Johnson says she had an “intense and maddening” experience while working on the first instalment of the Fifty Shades of Grey’...
by | Aug 19, 2019 | Mirth, Weirdness
by | Aug 18, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from The Atlantic How Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition Meritocracy prizes achievement above all else, making everyone—even the rich—miserable. Maybe there’s a way out. by Daniel Markovits, Professor at Yale Law School EDMON DE HARO In the summer of 1987, I...
by | Aug 17, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from Dark Horizons R.I.P. Peter Fonda By Garth Franklin The “Easy Rider” himself, Peter Fonda, has died – the famed actor passing away at 79 from lung cancer. Fonda had an interesting childhood – a difficult and distant relationship with his famous father Henry...