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Some Toronto controversy this morning, earlier this week Canadian filmmaker John Greyson apparently withdrew his short film from the festival in protest to their decision to have a program spotlighting films from Tel Aviv.
Over the past week it se...
The Fat Princess video game has been causing quite a stir amongst feminist gamers over the last couple weeks. The Sony game has a capture the flag theme, where the objective is to feed as much cake as...
In the weirdest news of the morning, the famed Jerry Lewis was found trying to bring a gun in his carry-on bag at the Las Vegas airport late last week. [Videos]
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, by Philip Gourevitch, is a relentless account of the 1994 Rwandan genocide told through unflinching details collected from survivors. Their stories depict the...
In 2008, political violence erupted throughout Zimbabwe as a result of highly contested national elections. Between May and July alone, local organizations estimate that state-sanctioned groups abducted, raped, tortured, and beat over 2,000 women and...
After a slew of posts that basically said, “Hey, it’d be nice if the Copenhagen Conference worked out, but it’d also be nice if they’d let Reginald VelJohnson play roles that aren’t a happy-go-lucky cop,” we actually have some potentially...
Last week, Detroit launched an advertising campaign–did someone say Kid Rock?–to lure young creative types to the Motor City.
This morning, the Los Angeles Times reports that Rust Belt states like Ohio are taking a different approach to...
High-efficiency toilets–a variation on the kind you see all over Europe–use 63 percent less water than their 1980s counterparts. Big number. It’s so big, in fact, that the city of Austin promised to cover the cost of a high-efficiency upgrade to...
Defamation: Upcoming Movie TrailerWe can learn a lot from our elders, especially elders who have been through something as traumatic as the Holocaust. This is one of the reasons I am excited about Andrew Jacobs’s documentary, Four Seasons Lodge. The...
Al Gore has certainly been making the rounds for NBC’s Green Week. On Thursday he appeared on 30 Rock and this weekend he had two hilarious cameos on Saturday Night Live. One was on the Weekend Update portion of the show; Al told Seth Meyers about...