May 2013
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April 2013
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I don't want to have to compromise my morals in...
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i dont want my words to be taken out of context
i dont want to be infantilized because i refuse to be sexualized
i dont want to be molested at shows or on the street by people who perceive me as an object that exists for their personal satisfaction
i dont want to live in a world where im gonna have to start employing body guards because this kind of behavior is so commonplace...
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“I owe allegiance to principles and not to any one country or government or...”
– Ana Montes spent decades spying for Cuba, and will probably spend the rest of her life in the most secure prison in America. Chances are you’ve never heard of her.
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March 2013
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“You pulled us in and left your arm dangling over our necks
And kept us warm -...”
– From Tilda Swinton’s speech at the dinner which marked the opening of the new exhibition at the V&A celebrating David Bowie’s life and career, David Bowie is
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“All her life, she subscribed to the belief that “everything is copy,” a phrase...”
– From Nora Ephron’s Final Act, by her son Jacob Bernstein for The New York Times Magazine
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Madrid, July 2011
I buy the same thing for lunch almost every day. An apple, a cheese sandwich (of the purest kind – cheese and bread, no butter) and a bottle of water. It is cheap and the cheese, the queso manchego, is delicious. I sit on a warm stone wall in the Plaza Santa Ana to eat my rudimentary sandwich and think of Hemingway.[[MORE]]
The colours are different in Madrid; I don’t know if it’s something to do...
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We Aren't the World
In the end they titled their paper “The Weirdest People in the World?”(pdf) By “weird” they meant both unusual and Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. It is not just our Western habits and cultural preferences that are different from the rest of the world, it appears. The very way we think about ourselves and others—and even the way we perceive reality—makes us distinct from...
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Why Woman's Hour is Over
Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour revealed its list of the UK’s 100 most powerful women earlier this month, proving once more that it is entirely out of touch with the woman it claims to serve.
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The list was based on listeners’ suggestions, but the final positions were decided by a panel which included journalist Eve Pollard, Labour peer Oona King and novelist Val McDermid. Pollard, who chaired the...
February 2013
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“If, like Tarantino, you show up with a megaphone and claim to be creating a real...”
– Actor Jesse Williams on the problem with Django Unchained
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The Cockroach Tour
Ever wondered what it would be like to tour the London Science Museum while dressed as a cockroach…?
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I am watching people eat their lunch in a bustling café. My guide points to the pizza on the plates of two men in front of us.
“Look,” he shout-whispers, “They don’t eat the cardboard!”
I am on a tour of the Science Museum in South Kensington. Our...
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“Like a late Victorian clergyman sweating in the dark over his Doubts, I have...”
– When faith in fiction falters, and how it is restored | Ian McEwan for The Guardian
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“I find it very sad that media makes up bogus stories about women fighting in...”
– Jessica Chastain’s response to media reports of her ‘hating’ Jennifer Lawrence, posted on her Facebook page. How great is she?!
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Review: What Richard Did
Richard, played by newcomer Jack Reynor, gets everything he wants without asking - often without even trying. A star rugby player, he is intelligent and socially adept, possessing a mature confidence that makes him the golden boy of his Dublin neighbourhood.
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It is the summer before university, and Richard and his friends go to stay at his parents’ coastal bungalow. There he meets Lara...
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The key to attracting ladies on the dance floor?... →
A Northumbria University study used 3D technology to capture the moves of 30 men aged between 19 and 37 who danced to a simple drum beat.
The results showed that women were drawn to strong arm and torso moves.
But they showed men were also conscious of strong upper body movements - making it easier to detect “love rivals”.
January 2013
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Two nights and two mornings
I was fourteen years old and unsure about most things, including myself. It was a spring evening and I was going to a party, at a pub – or at least, in the garden of a pub. It was owned by the girl’s parents, and had a small caravan park out back, and a trampoline. This was where we drank cans of beer and felt so much older than we were.
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I didn’t know the girl very well, was probably...
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George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll... →
“It would be so interesting if we could stay like that,” Saunders said, meaning: if we could conduct our lives with the kind of openness that sometimes comes with proximity to death. He described a flight from Chicago to Syracuse that he was on a little over 10 years ago. “We were flying along, and I’ve got a guilty pleasure — I’m reading Vanity Fair — and I’m on my way home. And suddenly...
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Twelfth Night at the Apollo
While Tim Carroll’s all-male production of Twelfth Night offers a rare glimpse of an authentic Shakespeare, it falls short of convincing you that this is the way the play should be.
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The all-male cast was just one aspect of the traditional staging. The immersive feel of the Globe, where the production originated, is recreated by the two-tiered seats that flank the stage. The set itself is...
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The story of a talent taken too soon →
I came across Marina Keegan’s essay “The Opposite of Loneliness” a few days ago. She was a Yale student, and a very promising writer and playwright, with a job lined up at The New Yorker after she graduated. I enjoyed the essay - which gets its poignancy from the awful conflict between her insistence that there is so much time and her early death - but then I found this,...
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