Classically-trained pop pianist Tori Amos released her 14th studio album last week; while its title (Unrepentant Geraldines) is a bit of a head-scratcher, many critics and fans have praised the album...
When I was in primary school, one of my first concerns was to save lynxes from extinction. There were no lynxes in the Italian costal town I used to live in - at the time I thought because they...
In a house in San Francisco, Sam Brody, a 5 year old boy who dreams of dinosaurs. Waking from his slumber we see the cause of his phantoms, toy models that dominate the foreground of the shot. It...
In the United States, if you’re a critically ill sex worker, society will leave you to die, as adult performer Eden Alexander has learned over the last few days. After starting a fundraiser to help...
For the Leftie in your life, a tumblr that pairs cats contemplating French economist Thomas Piketty's recent intellectual blockbuster Capital in the Twenty First Century, which has influentially...
It’s upfronts time, when US networks present their 2014-2015 schedule to advertisers in a fierce bid for their dollars. With networks facing a changing world when it comes to how people consume,...
Last year, naturalist Sir David Attenborough got into trouble when he called humans “a plague on the earth.” Apparently, some folks get a bit peeved when you slip ‘plague’ and ‘humans’...
Australians woke up this morning in bewilderment, anger, and, for many, without the secure future they’d been promised in the supposed Lucky Country. Federal Liberal Party Treasurer Joe Hockey...
The Eurovision Song Contest, that glorious, glittery spectacle that isn’t just out of left field, but comprises the field, had quite the 2014 edition. A televised competition featuring entrants...
Realizing that you’ve accidentally missed the episode: Attempting to find it on-demand as part of your cable package, then having it not work due to a connectivity error: Going online to distract...
