No legacy is so rich as honesty. | | | | "Poldark" satiates my British period drama addiction. Love. Loss. Betrayal. Fortune. Justice. Family. Friendship. I love it.
(PBS Masterpiece) | | | | | | “No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
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| | rantnrave:// Over the past century, technological advancements have massively reduced the cost and time needed to create and circulate content. Though this has liberated artists, consumers are now drowning in a virtually infinite supply of things to watch, listen to and read. The content explosion will invert the media industry. Age of Abundance... In a fast, reckless, intoxicating, beautiful life that ended at age 21, LIL PEEP created a remarkably deep catalog out of hazy hip-hop, vulnerable emo, a $200 microphone, GARAGEBAND, SOUNDCLOUD, a saggy mattress, depression, and a compulsive need to record. We take a look in "Lil Peep Made Beautiful Music Out of Awful Things"... A once far-off reality that I now closely long for... The fashion world was shocked when ALBER ELBAZ parted ways with LANVIN in 2015. Known for marrying a technician's approach with the eye of a dreamer, the designer revitalized the house of Lanvin and, at its height, showed that the creative and commercial could coexist. The industry continues to await his next move. "CLOSE-UP: Alber Elbaz, Beyond the Lanvin Legacy"... Not what BARRY DILLER had intended... Sad days lately? This will make you smile... How do you remember the athletes who never got to finish their careers—from ROBERTO CLEMENTE, who died helping earthquake survivors in NICARAGUA after notching his 3,000th hit, to HANK GATHERS, who collapsed on the court for LOYOLA MARYMOUNT, to SEAN TAYLOR, murdered in the middle of an All-Pro season with the WASHINGTON REDSKINS? It's mourning on the playing field for stars who never got to say goodbye. SportsSET: "The Sports Careers Cut Tragically Short"... My favorite purchase of the year... Happy Birthday to RACHAEL MCLEAN, SCOTTY SCHILLER, and JOHN S. COUCH. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| Big Vape is copying Big Tobacco’s playbook. | | |
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| Who delivers Amazon orders? Increasingly, it's plainclothes contractors with few labor protections, driving their own cars, competing for shifts on the company's own Uber-like platform. Though it's deployed in dozens of cities and associated with one of the world's biggest companies, government agencies and customers alike are nearly oblivious to the program's existence. | | |
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| Michael Rapino talks about organizing some of the biggest music tours in the world. | | |
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| The nation wants to eradicate all invasive mammal predators by 2050. Gene-editing technology could help--or it could trigger an ecological disaster of global proportions. | | |
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| In this first-of-its-kind conversation, the Bezos brothers discuss their early influences, habits for success, and predictions for the future. | | |
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| The company is revamping the way it displays breaking news search results | | |
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| For those not immersed in the world of web-based technology, blockchain is a difficult thing to wrap your head around. It's a nebulous concept that is simple on the surface but deeply complex in its details. | | |
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| In the early 2000s, the Southern California brand was irrelevant. Now it’s a $2.3 billion global powerhouse worn by pretty much everyone. | | |
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| If the government sues, it’s likely to lose. | | |
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| With a large community of performers living abroad, some hope it will help internationalize the country's music. But how to keep the dream alive? | | |
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| In her new book, ‘The Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug,’ Sarah Lacy says women should fight back, not ‘lean in’ - Recode | | |
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| These heroic chefs fed 2 million meals to hungry people in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. José Andrés shares how they did it. #ChefsForPuertoRico | | |
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| We've been talking about internet platform regulation for a long time, but in the past year these issues have gotten a huge amount of increased focus -- for a bunch of fairly obvious reasons. | | |
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| The Late Show with Stephen Colbert |
| 'Washington's Farewell' author and 'Daily Beast' editor-in-chief John Avlon viewed his media company's placement on Trump's blacklist as a badge of honor. | | |
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| Six top actresses - including Mary J. Blige, Jessica Chastain, Allison Janney and Saoirse Ronan - open up about risky roles and how the industry's culture of abuse might finally be on the verge of change: "I feel hopeful because we're not ignoring it anymore." | | |
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| The story of how American drinkers and whiskey distillers survived Prohibition, bootleggers, and the mob. | | |
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| Some advertisers think Google has not provided transparency about where their ads were running on YouTube. | | |
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| American culture is littered with characters who were invented to thwart stereotypes but ended up advancing other stereotypes instead. | | |
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| The wars in Syria and Iraq are products of secretive decision-making by the executive. Their disastrous consequences are evidence of the need for war powers reform. | | |
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| The designer and artist Tamiko Thiel gets her due in a new show at MoMA. | | |
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