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Sanctuary Christmas

from SF Gate Undocumented woman marks a year inside Maryland church Rebecca Tan, The Washington Post Next to Rock Creek in Bethesda, Maryland, sits a six-acre church campus shrouded by old cedar trees. For a year and two weeks, this has been Rosa Gutierrez Lopez’s home, sanctuary and site of confinement. This year, for the […]

Baba Ram Dass Gone

from AP Baba Ram Dass, spiritual guru and LSD proponent, dies at 88 HONOLULU (AP) — Baba Ram Dass, the 1960s counterculture spiritual leader who experimented with LSD and traveled to India to find enlightenment, returning to share it with Americans, has died. He was 88.  Dass’ foundation, Love Serve Remember, announced late Sunday that […]

Is The Internet Bad?

from BUZZFEED Alienated, Alone And Angry: What The Digital Revolution Really Did To Us We were promised community, civics, and convenience. Instead, we found ourselves dislocated, distrustful, and disengaged. by Joseph Bernstein In April 1997, Wired magazine published a feature with the grand and regrettable title “Birth of a Digital Nation.” It was a good time to make sweeping, […]

Space Hotels

from Thomson Reuters Stellar view? Space hotels race to offer tourists a room in the sky by Umberto Bacchi TBILISI, Dec 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tired of your ordinary earthly vacations? Some day soon you might be able to board a rocket and get a room with a view – of the whole planet – […]

Straight from Lena on QUEEN & SLIM

from the LA Times Why Lena Waithe fell in love with her leads while writing ‘Queen & Slim’ By LENA WAITHE “Queen & Slim” began at a party, celebrating my wife Alana Mayo. She had just been chosen as one of the Hollywood Reporter’s 35 under 35 execs. I was there gallivanting and having a good […]

NEWSWEEK – The Taylor-Johnson’s on A MILLION LITTLE PIECES

from NEWSWEEK AARON AND SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON TALK ‘A MILLION LITTLE PIECES,’ COLLABORATING AND ADDICTION BY H. ALAN SCOTT James Frey’s book A Million Little Pieces could arguably be considered one of the most controversial books published in recent history. The controversy surrounding its semi-fictional memoir-style made it one of the internet’s first viral scandals of the publishing world. […]

PEOPLE Magazine: The Taylor-Johnson’s on A MILLION LITTLE PIECES

from PEOPLE Magazine Aaron and Sam Taylor-Johnson on the Intense Journey of Making an Addiction Movie Together A Million Little Pieces is playing in select theaters now By  Nigel Smith Aaron, 29, and Sam Taylor-Johnson, 52, are no strangers to working together, having met making Sam’s directorial debut Nowhere Boy in 2009 — but adapting James Frey’s controversial 2003 book A Million […]

The Taylor-Johnson’s by James Frey

from Harper’s BAZAAR Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Are One of the Most Private Couples in Hollywood—and They Intend to Keep It That Way BY JAMES FREY; PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHAEL AVEDON Between lingering kisses and adoring sidelong glances, artist turned filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson and her dashing actor husband, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, open up to friend James Frey […]

Grateful Shred

from InsideHook Why the Music of the Grateful Dead Makes the Perfect Soundtrack for Action Sports “Fire On The Mountain” director Chris Benchetler fills us in on his new documentary BY EVAN BLEIER When skier and filmmaker Chris Benchetler was brainstorming names for someone to narrate his new action-sports film featuring the music of the Grateful Dead, there […]

The Chicago Crusader on QUEEN & SLIM

from The Chicago Crusader Black Lives Matter themes on full blast in ‘Queen & Slim’ By Elaine Hegwood Bowen, M.S.J. “Queen & Slim” is a story about a Black couple on the run who find themselves in an untenable position shortly after their first date. They are driving along and Slim had briefly passed his cell […]