Here’s a way for you to make a difference.Dec. 3, 2019Dave Eggers in 2018. In an interview with Vox, Eggers said “We’ve evolved to the point where our ideas of privacy have evolved or our value of it is almost completely gone.”Credit…Stephen J. Cohen/Getty ImagesSince the start of the Privacy Project, the most common response…
Amid all the imperial aspiration, wooly-minded New Age mythologizing, and pure unadulterated commerce, the obelisk stands tall.Left: Place de la Concorde. Number 6 in the series Curiosités Parisiennes, early 20th century. Postcard; offset lithography. Courtesy Leonard A. Lauder. Right: Monolite Mussolini Dux, via Wikimedia Commons By: Brian A. Curran, Anthony Grafton, Pamela O. Long, and Benjamin…
You can’t escape stories of tech companies dipping their toes into banking. This year, Google revealed it’s working on a check-clearing platform for 2020, and Facebook relaunched its own payments platform. Apple launched a credit card in partnership with Goldman Sachs’ Marcus digital bank, too. As hardware sales and ad revenues dry up, these companies…
AlabamaMontgomery: Officials in the capital city are preparing to open a time capsule that contains letters from residents and city officials to their successors and descendants. The capsule was sealed 50 years ago, during Montgomery’s 150th anniversary in 1969. It included instructions to keep the capsule closed until the city’s 200th anniversary, which is this…
WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–InkHouse has been named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts in the 12th annual employee-based survey project from The Boston Globe. Top Places to Work recognizes the most admired workplaces in the state voted on by the people who know them best—their employees. The survey measures employee opinions about their…
Dec. 11, 2019, 11:35 a.m.“Because we’ve been in a relatively protected space, I think one of the challenges is that there’s not always the urgency to change.” With all the trouble local newspapers are in, local public radio stations have been a bright spot in many communities: growing instead of shrinking, adding more than 1,000…
November 26, 2019 | 5:15 AM Photo Credit: OV Stills The saying goes “it’s darkest before the dawn” but for George Carroll, better known to most as Slaine, it is the darkness that yields his best work. From the outside looking in, life appears to be good for the La Coka Nostra MC. He’s sober,…
The Ledge producer Michael Mailer has teamed with Hank Blumenthal (In the Soup, The Mouse) to produce an inspired-by-true-events period drama, The Walk, with Daniel Adams attached to direct from a script he co-wrote with George Powell. The screenplay was originated by Powell, a former drug dealer whom Adams discovered while he was incarcerated. Upon…
For years, Korean-American singer-songwriter Eric Nam reverse-engineered his songs. He wrote the lyrics in English, then translated the words into Korean to sound more familiar to listeners in South Korea, where he is based. But the U.S.-born artist has taken an entirely different approach to his latest project. Before We Begin, released earlier this month,…
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck became Hollywood superstars after the success of Good Will Hunting. Not only did the longtime friends star in the movie, but they won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay that year. But that was 22 years ago, and despite taking home one of the most prestigious awards Hollywood has to…
