Millennial Perseveres

Just a bit more than a year ago, young Emma Carmichael, a nice young person from Vermont, unwittingly became the subject…

Surprise! When you get rid of all the people who run your prisons, so that they can be run more “efficiently” by private corporations, you then have to pay out their unused sick time, vacation time and holiday…

The discrimination case brought against Bloomberg LP, by 80+ lady-with-children-type workers, has been dismissed. (Fun footnote: Bloomberg’s manner at his deposition was described as “testy and sarcastic.”)

Killer Apps: The Media Power Coupler

Boom: Mixing and matching the Observer’s “media power lists” of single people, the Media Power…

It’s no Italian chupacabra, but it will do: “A large black cat believed to be a panther is stalking the fields and forests of southern Tuscany, striking fear into residents and holidaymakers. Hunters have angered animal rights campaigners by offering to kill it, but the debate is academic — ‘Bagheera’ is running rings around its pursuers.”

Los Angeles-based readers of The Hairpin are meeting up tonight at 7p.m., at Mohawk Bend. After a few beers they’re going robbing. (In case of disaster or change in venue, your host will update you.) That neighborhood may or may not be “Echo Park.”

Composer and East Village legend Philip Glass has sold a memoir, to Norton’s Liveright & Company. Word on the street has it that the text is extremely repetitive but amazingly modulated. (Alternate joke: his studio staff is just going to run around the office and pick up a bunch of…

Here you will find a picture of a cow with its head stuck in a ladder.

Enough with the pop-ups, says Felix Salmon: “How, then, to explain pop-ups’ popularity? First, the semiotics of pop-up restaurants all scream, This is a great deal. Haphazard service, cheap chairs, liquor-license issues: Diners see these things and think they must be getting a bargain price. Second, there…

Heteronormativity: you’re doing it wrong.