As a college student, Obama was inspired by Studs Terkel’s 1974 book Working, which revolutionized the conversation around work by asking ordinary people what they did all day. The series brings this idea into the modern world by offering intimate, behind-the-scenes portraits of people’s ...
The movie tells the tale of a spoiled college student trying to make it home for Christmas dinner to claim the car his father promised him. His plans are made more difficult after getting stranded in the desert three days before he has to be there. The movie was critically panned for its...
It was an unusually hot and humid day at the ballpark and in the middle of the seventh inning, an infestation of midges ravaged the field. Joba Chamberlain was the Yankees reliever on the mound and was inundated with the bugs. Chamberlain wound up getting shellacked by the Indians batters, ...
Mickey’s Christmas Carol was the first original Mickey Mouse theatrical cartoon produced in over 30 years. While it was originally created to be shown alongside Disney reissues in theaters, it made its way to NBC just a year later. In this gentle retelling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas ...
(Gideon Adlon) and Bethlehem (Miri Woodlow). They have decided to quarantine from College at Parker’s parents’ lake house together and after the (at the time) de riguer questions of “did you do a RAT test?” and “do you have any symptoms” formalities, they set off in Parker’s...
Food Lion was at the center of a landmark legal case in the 1990s, when two ABC News producers submitted false job applications and were hired at its stores in North and South Carolina. They secretly filmed practices in the meat departments, and ABC's "Primetime Live" broadcast a segment ...
It follows Victor, an overweight thirtysomething cook, played by the eminent character actor Pruitt Taylor Vince, as he runs out the clock at his family’s greasy spoon. When the restaurant hires a demure college dropout named Callie (Liv Tyler) to wait tables, Victor immediately falls for ...
The movie tells the tale of a spoiled college student trying to make it home for Christmas dinner to claim the car his father promised him. His plans are made more difficult after getting stranded in the desert three days before he has to be there. The movie was critically panned for its...
What is AI or artificial intelligence but the ‘space of possible minds’, argues Murray Shanahan, scientific advisor on the movie Ex Machina and Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London. In this special episode of the a16z Podcast brought to you on the ground from London, Sh...
This decade is known as the “Dirty War”, but let’s use quotation marks because it was, in fact, no war at all; it was the asymmetrical application of political murder by the powerful against those who dared to stand against their campaign of terror. Truly:In 1983, the National ...