by | Jul 4, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from Oregon Live It’s not your imagination: Americans are shooting off more fireworks than ever By The Conversation AP Photo/Nick Ut In the eyes of many Americans, the Fourth of July is a day for parades, barbecues and, of course, fireworks. The tradition got...
by | Jul 2, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from The Atlantic Doublethink Is Stronger Than Orwell Imagined What 1984 means today GEORGE PACKER OLIVER MUNDAY No novel of the past century has had more influence than George Orwell’s 1984. The title, the adjectival form of the author’s last name, the vocabulary of...
by | Jun 30, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from USA Today Taco Bell’s pop-up hotel reservations sell out in 2 minutes Sherry Barkas, Palm Springs Desert Sun A rendering of Taco Bell-themed king room decor and amenities planned for The Bell. Reservations for the first ever Taco Bell pop-up hotel open June...
by | Jun 29, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from Bloomberg via Yahoo! Finance Move Over, Nevada: New Jersey Is Now the Sports-Betting King by Eben Novy-Williams (Bloomberg) — New Jersey legalized sports betting a year ago, and last month the state’s operators passed a major milestone. For the first time,...
by | Jun 28, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from The Plain-Dealer The Vindicator, Youngstown’s daily newspaper, will close after 150 years By Jordyn Grzelewski American steelworker Charlie Grapentine reads about the Korean War in the Youngstown Vindicator in October 1950. The newspaper told employees Friday...
by | Jun 26, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from Quanta Magazine The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries by K.C. Cole Rachel Suggs for Quanta Magazine The flashier fruits of Albert Einstein’s century-old insights are by now deeply embedded in the popular imagination: Black holes, time warps and...
