Newly Minted Yellow Veil Pictures Announces Acquisitions of LUZ And A MAN IN THE DARK
Normally the birth of a new film sales company would be left to the trades to announce. However, since all…
Pussy Riot Members Get 15 Days in Jail and a 3-Year Ban From Sporting Events After Protesting at the World Cup Final
After a high-profile protest on the field of the World Cup final in Moscow on Sunday, four members of punk…
Astronomers Discovered 12 New Moons Around Jupiter. Here’s How
Sometimes a search for one thing presents the chance to look for something else. If you’re like me, that something…
Does Comics Culture Have an Inferiority Complex?
Here’s the truth: Comic book publishing—yes, just the business of selling printed comics—is a billion-dollar industry. This month, 1,194 new…
BMW’s Launching an Uber Competitor in Seattle
In this wacky new world of bike shares, electric scooters, OneWheels, and transit apps, automotive companies aren’t quite famous for…
Who Said Art Was Fun? This Year’s Liverpool Biennial Is a Tearjerking Journey Through Europe’s Dark, Violent Past
An overwhelming spirit of retrospection—rather than nostalgia—permeates the 10th edition of the Liverpool Biennial, the UK’s largest visual art festival.…
Travel: One European in three has never been abroad
Erasmus, the end of roaming charges, the convenience of the euro: the rhetoric promoting the benefits of European integration only…
Netherlands: man fleeing homophobic violence denied asylum as he is ‘not gay enough’
A man fleeing anti-gay violence has been denied asylum seeker status in the Netherlands based on an assessment by the…
What kind of break from the Democrats?
Breaking Clean or Dirty? Owen Hill | In the last year, a new strategy for electoral engagement known as the…
Using dogs as a tool of racist repression
IN 2016, veterinarian Dan Wentz started a fundraiser to implant titanium crowns on the teeth of a 106-pound German Shepherd…
Life at the frontier
Though down from the record-high numbers of previous years, migrants are continuing to make the perilous voyage across the Mediterranean…
What will AMLO do with his landslide win?
MILLIONS OF Mexicans went to the polls earlier this month to express their discontent with the current state of society…
ICE: The making of an American Gestapo
AN UPSURGE of opposition to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is taking shape across the country, catalyzed by the…
Why Sinclair’s Bid to Buy the Tribune Company Might Die
Sinclair Broadcasting’s proposed $3.9 billion takeover of Tribune Media, which would have expanded the conservative media company’s footprint to nearly…