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...
by | Jun 25, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from The Washington Post via SF Gate Sex is disappearing from the big screen, and it’s making movies less pleasurable by Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post At the Cannes film festival last month, the scandal arrived with metronomic predictability: Quentin...
