The Russian feminist punk band members had been protesting another artist’s prison sentence in Siberia when they were detained by police. One of those detained, Maria Alyokhina, was convicted of “religious hooliganism” and sentenced to two years in prison for performing a “punk prayer” in Moscow in 2012.
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Ty Hardin, Who Carved A Niche Playing ‘Bronco,’ Has Died At 87
Long after Bronco, Hardin got in trouble with the I.R.S., and then, “while living in Prescott, Ariz., he formed an anti-tax, anti-government protest group that evolved into the Arizona Patriots militia movement, which was accused in 1986 of planning to blow up an I.R.S. complex in Utah.”
Google Has Figured Out How To Make Your Phone Photos Better Before You Take Them
In a completely not creepy development, Google’s neural network is now so fast at improving photos that its “algorithm transforms photos so fast you can see the edited version in the viewfinder before you snap the picture.”
The Movie ‘Dunkirk’ Is Inspiring A Tourism Boom In Northern France
In Dunkirk, Nicolas Idasiak “spends 90 minutes daily showing visitors around town in a tour based on the Hollywood hit. The walk stops every few minutes along the beach and outside nondescript houses — spots where the movie was filmed.”
Where To Find The Stylish Kids? In Soho, Of Course
Except this time, they’re there for “product drops,” of course. “They have fully embraced ‘normcore’ fashion, but with branded limited releases and collaborations. It is not price but exclusivity, the scarcity model, that drives the new geeks. And those limited editions go to those who know about the releases first and get there first.”
If Amazon Is Going To Have A Drone Delivery Army, It’ll Need A Drone Repair Platoon As Well
Drone infrastructure update, ahoy: “In this new filing, the company provides a thumbnail sketch of how its system works right now: products are manufactured, brought to a fulfillment facility, from which they’re dispatched to a customer.” Yes, drones are going to buzz back and forth from moving vehicles … or at least that’s one plan.
This Show Lost One Emmy Nomination After A Costume Controversy Erupted
Basically, the nominators made a rookie movie for the show This Is Us, and they submitted an episode that takes place more in the past than in the present. (In a peculiarly appropriate move, House of Cards will take its place.)
What Happened To ‘Detroit’ This Weekend?
The movie collapsed in a wider release. But why? After all, Zero Dark Thirty was just as bleak if not bleaker, and that movie did just fine in wider release. Here are a few reasons this movie fell off the face of the moviegoing earth.
How The Glass Castle’s Jeannette Walls Dealt With Her Sudden, And Intense, Success
Walls and her husband left Manhattan for a 205-acre horse farm in Virginia, but “while the farm has given Ms. Walls a stability that long eluded her, she knows better than to count on it. Years of roving the country in junk cars, foraging for food in school trash bins, being pelted with rocks by bullies and being eyed with contempt by neighbors have left her wary.”
The Sheer Dumb Luck Of This First-Time Documentarian Helped Bring Down Cycling’s Biggest Doping Ring
Right place, right time: “When he set out to make Icarus, the playwright and actor Bryan Fogel had one goal: to examine how easy it is to get away with doping in professional sport. … What actually happened was a bit like tugging on an errant thread and having the entire clothing industry unravel right on top of you.”