How did YouTube personality ‘Furry Potato’s’ trip to an L.A. synagogue end in gunfire?

For more than 40 minutes, Zhoie Perez filmed the outside of a Los Angeles synagogue, as a security guard whose ire she had drawn trained his own camera on her. The passive-aggressive standoff that played out Thursday afternoon in the Fairfax district seemed in line with other videos posted to one... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘A Light in the Dark’ is a love letter to directors, personal flaws and all

The latest addition to film historian David Thomson’s opinionated take on the film industry is notable for what it says — and what it doesn’t. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-04-12 07:00:00 UTC ]
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‘First Person Singular’ delves into lost love and strange happenings

Japanese writer Haruki Murakami offers a collection of imaginative short stories with skewed elements that his many fans are sure to applaud. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2021-04-06 22:11:04 UTC ]
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A Rage-Fueled Memoir of a Marriage-Ending Affair

In “Blow Your House Down,” Gina Frangello examines her experience of loss, lust, pain and longing with angry intensity. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2021-04-06 09:00:21 UTC ]
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Dr Gwen Adshead | 'I wanted to write something that could be read by a lay person'

"I have spent decades working with people who have caused horror and grief to others. I will tell horror stories in this book but I will also tell stories of change and recovery. It may surprise the reader that this is possible.” So writes forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist Dr Gwen... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-03-19 19:46:17 UTC ]
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For three generations of Bush women, personal pain and a public spotlight

J. Randy Taraborrelli details the struggles of the political clan’s matriarchs and wives. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-03-19 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Devine intervention as Sky News Australia's YouTube channel eclipses ABC's | The Weekly Beast

Sky News Australia goes viral overseas. Plus: Nine greenlights Melissa Caddick drama two days after her remains foundSky News Australia’s YouTube channel now has more subscribers than ABC News: 1.31m to Aunty’s 1.129m. When your best prime-time show, Andrew Bolt’s, regularly has about 80,000... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2021-03-05 02:42:25 UTC ]
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2021 WonderCon, San Diego Comic-Con Stay Virtual; CCI Plans November In-Person Event

Comic-Con International announced that it will once again replace WonderCon, its annual spring convention in Anaheim, and the San Diego Comic-Con in the summer, with free virtual events in 2021. In addition, CCI plans to launch a new and as yet unnamed in-person pop culture event in November 2021. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The story of the Black church, from the spiritual to the political to the personal

Henry Louis Gates Jr. offers a sweeping narrative that goes beyond gospel music. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-02-25 13:00:00 UTC ]
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8 of the Best Book Series Ending in 2021

There is something bittersweet about an end. Ready for one last adventure? Let's take a look at some of the book series ending in 2021. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2021-02-23 11:31:00 UTC ]
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Bookshops could reopen 'at end of March'

Non-essential retailers in England could reopen as early as the end of March as part of an easing of lockdown restrictions, it has been reported. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-14 21:49:30 UTC ]
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Sales of Print Books End January on High Note

Unit sales of print book rose 19.5% in the week ended January 30, 2021, over the comparable week in 2020 at outlets that report to BookScan. For the month of January, print unit sales were 21.3% higher than January 2020. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
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What Richard Wollheim Taught Us About the ‘Finished State’ of a Person

Germs: not only the dirty little things you can’t see but also seeds. In his sensuous and melancholic memoir, Richard Wollheim attempts to collect the seemingly insignificant, lost little kernels of his life—the most powerful impressions of his younger self—that then germinated and made the man.... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-02-02 09:48:41 UTC ]
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50 years later, ‘The Monster at the End of This Book’ is still selling — and inspiring authors

The children’s book has influence out of proportion with its 24 pages and its cardboard cover devoid of medallions. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-01-27 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Review: A family travel memoir makes a timely pitch for personal risk

Charles Wheelan's "We Came, We Saw, We Left" charts the Wheelan family's frantic global "gap year" — infections, iffy street food, tantrums and all. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-01-22 18:26:12 UTC ]
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Working to end slavery, Lincoln found power — and limits — in the Constitution

His aggressive moves were paired with deference to states’ rights, James Oakes writes. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-01-22 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Cannes Lions finalizes in-person jury presidents, and Facebook outsources Trump ban verdict: Friday Wake-Up Call

Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. If you're reading this online or in a forwarded email, here's the link to sign up for our Wake-Up Call newsletters.Cannes, contingent Cannes Lions announced its 2021 jury presidents—57% of... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2021-01-22 11:00:00 UTC ]
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In Danielle Evans’s ‘The Office of Historical Corrections,’ the sorrows are personal but also deeply historical

The author of “Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self” delivers a magnificent, searing new story collection. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-01-15 14:00:00 UTC ]
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By the end of 2020, we were supposed to have more J.D. Salinger. Instead we have ‘Sergeant Salinger.’

New works by the author did not emerge as expected. Novelist Jerome Charyn used his imagination to fill in the blanks. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-31 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales Rose 5.2% In Week Ended Dec. 19

In the last full shopping week before Christmas, unit sales of print books rose 5.2% over the week ended December 12 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. The two adult categories led the sales gain. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Women's Prize podcast ends second series with Kim Cattrall

Kim Cattrall has rounded off the second series of the "Women's Prize Podcast", picking books by Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood among her top titles. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-22 18:58:43 UTC ]
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