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Motion City Soundtrack

from exclaim.ca Motion City Soundtrack – ‘Panic Stations’ (album stream) By Sarah Murphy The Minneapolis-based emo kids in Motion City Soundtrack are all grown up and ready to return with Panic Stations next week. But before the nautically-themed set of songs washes ashore, Exclaim! is giving you an early listen to the album in its entirety. In addition references to water […]

McDonald’s Discriminates With McRib

from E! Another McDonald’s Bummer: The McRib Is Coming Back, But There’s a Tragic Downside by JENNA MULLINS David Paul Morris/Getty Images Maybe McDonald’s should change its name to the Chicago Cubs, because it keeps breaking hearts left and right. We celebrated the fact that McDonald’s was finally going forward with all-day breakfast, only to be brought […]

The Saddest Day In Television History – Sábado Gigante Gone

from The Washington Post For more than 50 years, Univision’s ‘Sábado Gigante’ was truly a giant By Carlos Harrison DORAL, FLA. — An electric excitement surges through the crowd gathered in the Univision studios in this city just west of Miami. As Mario “Don Francisco” Kreutzberger steps out of the wings, the fans in the bleachers who’ve traveled here […]

Maybe Banksy did it…?

from artnet Warhol’s Famous Jews Stolen from L.A. Movie Studio and Replaced with Fakes by Brian Boucher Andy Warhol, Sigmund Freud, from from “Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century,” 1980. Photo via TMZ. Nine of Andy Warhol‘s prints of Jewish icons like Sigmund Freud and Gertrude Stein valued at $350,000 have gone missing […]

E.T. Phone Earth

from Space.com Giant Radio Telescope Could Detect E.T.’s Call by Nola Taylor Redd Credit: SKA Organisation A huge telescope array will allow scientists to conduct the most sensitive and exhaustive search for signs of alien civilizations to date when it comes online, the project’s backers say. The Square Kilometer Array (SKA), currently planned to begin construction in 2018, could enable […]

422 Trees For Every Person On The Planet

from CNN The Earth has 3 trillion trees, study finds By Brandon Griggs (CNN) – The good news: A new study finds that there are 3.04 trillion trees on Earth, 7½ times more than previous estimates. That’s more than 3,000,000,000,000. A whopping 12 zeros. Roughly 422 trees — a tiny forest! — for every person […]

The Vineyard

from The Hollywood Reporter Beverly Hills’ $1 Billion “Vineyard”: The Bizarre Saga Behind L.A.’s Last Real Estate Trophy By Scott Johnson The 157 acres atop the city has traded hands from the Shah of Iran’s sister to Merv Griffin to the mogul behind Herbalife. Then came unknown Chip Dickens, who managed to procure the property […]

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Beasts of No Nation, ‘A stunning cross between “Peter Pan” and “Apocalypse Now”’

from The Economist Netflix’s first theatrical release deserves to be watched at the cinema by N.B. | VENICE CARY FUKUNAGA’s “Beasts of No Nation” is the most controversial film in competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival, but not because of its subject matter. The controversial part is that it is being distributed by Netflix, […]