Why? Because you’ll be happier. Way, way happier. Push notifications are for brands, not for users: “Allowing an app to send you push notifications is like allowing a store clerk to grab you by the ear and drag you into their store. You’re letting someone insert a commercial into your life anytime they want. Time to turn it off.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Does ‘The Big Sick’ Throw South Asian Women Under The Bus?
The problem isn’t necessarily The Big Sick or Master of None but that South Asian women don’t have enough representation on screens big or small. “The word ‘erasure’ comes up frequently in the criticism, and it’s neither new nor unfounded.”
The Modern-Day Palaces (Or Are They Cathedrals?) Of The Tech Giants
The tech giants “have, plainly, colossal resources, with the ability to do almost anything they like. They can have new materials invented, or make old ones perform as never before. They can build the biggest and most expensive workplaces yet seen. They can change cities. They have already redefined ‘architecture’ in the sense that the word can now refer to the structures of software and hardware. Now the old-fashioned version of architecture finds itself an adjunct of the new sort. “
An Immense Screw-Up Over A New Building May Kill This Drama School In England
One of the current students; “It’s sad to see such a unique, outstanding, renowned college be let down by a bunch of suits who didn’t make their mind up over the future of it, and there’s at least a hundred of us that have been left with the mess they patched together for us.”
Sure, Netflix Does Original Shows And Reboots – But Its New Secret Weapon Is Genre Movies
Directors, showrunners, and cast members were at San Diego Comic-Con. “To hear them say it, Netflix could do no wrong. ‘I was able to do my shit here,’ Ayers said. ‘I was able to tell my fucking story. I was able to do my thing.'”
Opera In Europe Is Not Exactly Content With The Way The World Is Working
“Aix’s outgoing general director, Bernard Foccroulle, described his vision as one in which opera has ‘a vivid and creative relationship to the past, with a focus that is of our time.’ The model should be one of ‘participation, not consumerism.'”
It’s Time (Probably Way, Way Past Time) For Women And Power To Be All Over Our Screens
Why? Because that’s real, even if Wonder Woman, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Game of Thrones are al fantasies. “Challenging power is itself a liberal, anti-authoritarian act, which means that power’s answer is much less important than the act of posing the question, because that’s what speaking truth to power looks like. The feminist question is how much our culture is prepared to reconcile women and power. And on that question, the jury is very much out.”
How Did Rotten Tomatoes Become Both So Influential And So Feared?
It’s like Amazon or something even bigger (if there is such a thing): “As people are bombarded with more and more entertainment options, quality has become a determining factor for a movie’s success. And moviegoers use Rotten Tomatoes to select films the same way they turn to Yelp to determine what restaurants they visit.”
21st Century Fox Asks Matt Groening To Make The Simpsons Nicer To Fox News (And The President)
This was “after a joke that dubbed Fox News ‘not racist, but No. 1 with racists,'” the creator of The Simpsons said. “‘Then Bill O’Reilly called us pinheads and look what happened,’ Groening added.”
Actor John Heard Of The ‘Home Alone’ Movies And ‘The Sopranos’ Has Died At 72
One of Heard’s favorite jobs was in the 2013 original Sharknado movie. “‘I knew it was going to be a cult classic,’ he told the Baltimore Media Blog last year. ‘It’s just ridiculous. I thought it would replace people calling me the Home Alone dad.'”