Covered this week; Daniel Pinchbeck on how to save the Earth from ecological disaster… China launches its first domestically-built aircraft carrier… Jonathan Demme dies at 73… Man Trump named to fix mortgage markets figured in infamous financial crisis episode… 7 things you didn’t know about the Reservoir Dogs… This Is Spinal Tap seeks its revenge… Orange is the New Black gets hacked…
April 24, 2017
In ‘How Soon Is Now: From Personal Initiation to Global Transformation’, Daniel Pinchbeck outlines in painstaking detail exactly how the human race is careening toward extinction.
April 25, 2017
China has launched its first aircraft carrier built entirely on its own, in a demonstration of the growing technical sophistication of its defense industries and determination to safeguard its maritime territorial claims and crucial trade routes.
April 26, 2017
Jonathan Demme, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who observed emphatically American characters with a discerning eye, a social conscience and a rock ’n’ roll heart, achieving especially wide acclaim with “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Philadelphia,” died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 73.
April 27, 2017
The folks Trump is assigning to tasks within our Federal Government almost seem to be choices destined to lose by design… the appointment of Craig S. Phillips to “fix” the mortgage markets appears to be yet another of these… Matt Taibbi investigates.
April 28, 2017
Mr. White, Mr. Orange, Mr. Blonde, Mr. Pink, Mr. Brown: They all reunited for the 25th anniversary retrospective screening of “Reservoir Dogs” at the Tribeca Film Festival April 28. Cast members Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi and writer-director-actor Quentin Tarantino all got together to reminisce after the 1992 movie screened to a packed house at the Beacon Theater. Here are seven fun facts they revealed.
April 29, 2017
This Is Spinal Tap became a sort of comedy-nerd Casablanca, a classic so infinitely quotable that it practically generated its own language. (If anyone has ever told you that something “goes to 11,” you probably haven’t required an explanation.) And like a low-IQ, longhaired Pinocchio, Spinal Tap transformed into the real thing, recording albums and even touring. “The thing that we joke about is called the Spinal Tap curse,” Shearer says, “where we have to go through everything that we’ve made fun of.”
April 30, 2017
An anonymous hacker has carried through on a threat to release “Orange Is the New Black” season five episodes online after Netflix allegedly failed to respond to the cyber criminal’s shakedown demands.
