“I always relish how a cartoon can trigger thought and laughter with just a small drawing,” the Dutch cartoonist Joost Swarte says from the South of France, where he’s currently vacationing with his family. “Cartooning has an edge on all other media. You don’t need anything else such as canvas and paint, or camera and actors: the road to expression is only a sheet of paper and a pencil away.”
AT&T is unveiling a new package that combines traditional TV and wireless services as it seeks to broaden its offerings following its $48.5 billion purchase of satellite TV company DirecTV about a week ago.
NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T is unveiling a new package that combines traditional TV and wireless services as it seeks to broaden its offerings following its $48.5 billion purchase of satellite TV company DirecTV about a week ago. The change isn't huge, given that AT&T and DirecTV already had cross-marketing deals as separate companies. But Monday's announcement is "the first step of what's to come," said Brad Bentley, AT&T's chief marketing officer for entertainment and Internet services. Bentley... Читать дальше...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - An index of Asian shares outside Japan fell close to this year's lows thanks to a deepening selloff in commodities and concerns over slowing growth in China, while the dollar held its ground against a basket of currencies. China's factory activity shrank more than initially estimated in July, contracting by the most in two years as new orders fell, according to a private survey that dashed hopes that the economy may be steadying.
TV loses its most beloved fake newsman when Jon Stewart hosts his final 'Daily Show' on Aug. 6.
Washington (AFP) - A top Hillary Clinton staffer told CNN that the former first lady's campaign team is unfazed by news that Vice President Joe Biden is giving serious consideration to a White House bid.
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DEPOSIT, N.Y. (AP) — New York City officials say operations have returned to normal at an upstate reservoir as they work to permanently plug a leak near its dam. Officials say that drinking water diversions and downstream releases from the Cannonsville Reservoir will be reduced to normal levels beginning Sunday. They say repair work has successfully halted the turbid discharge below the dam. Workers drilling boring holes for a hydroelectric plant in an embankment near the dam accidentally created the leak in early July. Читать дальше...
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First there was Vox Tablet. Then there was Israel Story. Now, we are excited to present Unorthodox, Tablet’s newest podcast and part of Slate’s Panoply network. Hosted by Tablet Editor-at-Large Mark Oppenheimer and featuring Deputy Editor Stephanie Butnick and Senior Writer Liel Leibovitz, the weekly show includes fresh, fun, and “disturbingly honest” (says Oppenheimer) discussion […]
Kenny Perry has barely a hiccup on his way to earning back-to-back 3M crowns
Bitcoin trading is the hottest game in China. The digital currency has been embraced by Chinese users who like to take a gamble: It’s all “about trading, about volatility, about making a profit — buy low, sell high,” said Bobby Lee, CEO of BTCChina, the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange. Bitcoin was created in 2009 by […]
James Eagan Holmes did not start out in this world as a psycho killer. The evidence his lawyers presented in court last week showed he once was a cute, happy little boy from a doting family, a nice kid who was gentle with his dog and his baby sister. He was wanted, he was encouraged […]
Power Brokers
Bill McKibben’s article on green energy discusses problems that must be resolved in order to realign economic incentives for utility companies (“Power to the People,” June 29th). The Green Mountain Power model he describes is a step in the right direction: end users save money in the long run without corresponding revenue decreases for utility companies. Homeowners undergo an energy audit and finance the recommended improvements by monthly payments through their utility bills. But... Читать дальше...
You fell the trees, You limb them, peel them, And skid them out. You raise a heavy house With heavy rooms, A heavy loft. A heavy wet snow Falls in May, Snows you in For five days. That snow makes new grass heavy, And heavy with flowers. There is a heaven And you are alone in it— Not even a voice To talk to yourself in— Just swerving memories Of hope and fear So lethally ephemeral— A girl playing guitar And horses in the yard. You wait for... Читать дальше...
A few days before the Adam Sandler movie “Pixels” was released, Bob Chipman saw an advance screening. “I was bored within two minutes, angry after five, and by the time all hundred minutes had run out I was sad and numb,” he later said. Chipman, who is thirty-four and lives outside Boston, blogs about video games under the moniker the Game OverThinker and reviews films as MovieBob. (Tagline: “Film. Gaming. Politics. Geek.”) “Pixels” is an action-movie mashup of classic arcade games, such as Pac-Man. Читать дальше...
The city of Asyut sits in the heart of Upper Egypt, at a crescent-shaped bend in the Nile River, where the western bank is home to a university, a train station, approximately four hundred thousand people, and three shops in which Chinese migrants sell racy lingerie to locals. These shops are not hard to find. The first time I visited Asyut, I hailed a cab at the entrance of the city and asked the driver if he knew of any Chinese people in town. Without hesitation, he drove along the Nile Corniche... Читать дальше...
Fitzgerald’s is an Irish pub in Chapel Hill, near the campus of the University of North Carolina, that counts among its attractions cheap burgers, flip-cup tournaments, and jolly music. One night last year, the soundtrack included “Blurred Lines,” the 2013 Robin Thicke hit, in which a night-club Lothario delivers a breathy proposition to a “good girl”:
Harry Partch, the rigorous wild man of American music, wrote, in 1935, “This isn’t Germany, and this isn’t the eighteenth century, and I’m trying to give myself, and others, a good basis for a new and great music of the people.” Partch was arguing, with his usual pugnacity, against the Germanic tradition and against American dependence on that tradition. His urge to break with the past led him, at the height of the Depression, to assume a hobo life, travelling the rails and notating hobo songs. Читать дальше...
Back when Jason Isbell was drinking, he spent a lot of his New York City downtime at the Lakeside Lounge, on Avenue B. “It’s gone now,” Isbell, an Alabama-born singer-songwriter, said on a recent visit to the city. “I spent every hour I wasn’t working in that place getting fucked up.” Sometimes when he was working he’d get fucked up, too. He recalled a disastrous show at Webster Hall, when, after hitting the vodka backstage (“Rednecks can’t drink clear liquor”), he got into a fight with his bass... Читать дальше...