Joe Jonas: My Life As a Jonas Brother -- Vulture
Miley Cyrus played an already-famous pop star on a Disney show, Hannah Montana, and as we were starting to blow up, we got a boost by playing ourselves, as her favorite band on her own show. We went along with it at the time, because we thought Disney was our only real shot, and we were terrified that it could all be taken away from us at any moment
The Face of Facebook - The New Yorker
One evening while Donna was working in her room, downstairs, a screen popped up: the computer contained a deadly virus and would blow up in thirty seconds. You sign up and start posting information about yourself: photographs, employment history, why you are peeved right now with the gummy-bear selection at Rite Aid or bullish about prospects for peace in the Middle East
Groupthink - The New Yorker
Nevertheless, Building 20 quickly became a center of groundbreaking research, the Los Alamos of the East Coast, celebrated for its important work on military radar. Those looking for the Ice Research Lab had to walk past the military recruiting office; students on their way to play with the toy trains (the Tech Model Railroad Club was on the third floor, in Room No
Presumably "she" is just gathering basic info, i.e., name, age, etc., to get an insurance quote, although it would seem faster for people to go online and type their own info. When he paused after his opening pitch, I didn't respond at first because I was sure he was a robot! After a long pause, I asked, "Are you real?" and he was very taken aback and gave clearly non-robotic responses
Eddie Huang on Seeing His Memoir Become a Sitcom -- Vulture
THERE WERE REAL ACTORS ON TV TALKING ABOUT THE PITFALLS OF WHITE FOOD! My friend Rocky was staying at the crib and missed the commercial, so I played it back. Our parents worked in restaurants, laundromats, and one-hour photo shops thinking it was impossible to have a voice in this country, so they never said a word
Even the Truth and Reconciliation Commission acknowledged that more Blacks were killed by the ANC than by RSA security forces.Sad thing is that a truly great African leader, Jonas Savimbi, died a few years ago, practically unnoticed. It is routine to suggest that the legacy of a man or woman will outlive that person, but in this case, the world will never be the same now that Nelson Mandela has occupied it
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Food Cackleberry Farms June 9, 2015 Photos by Lauren Wood By Riley Manning Life on the farm starts early, and for John and Lovine Maxwell at Cackleberry Farms, it starts with the chickens. The 36-year-old mental health clinician practices hypnotherapy and trauma therapy, and describes herself as someone who likes to come in and be to herself
The myth of the eight-hour sleep - BBC News
The night was a place populated by people of disrepute - criminals, prostitutes and drunks."Even the wealthy, who could afford candlelight, had better things to spend their money on. Much like the experience of Wehr's subjects, these references describe a first sleep which began about two hours after dusk, followed by waking period of one or two hours and then a second sleep
admin - June 20, 2015 - Military, Resources Deciding To Live On Or Off The Installation As A Couple Or Family Military families are used to sudden and frequent moves. The issue raised by OSERS Letter to Baus addresses a very important issue, namely whether the parent can include skills not addressed by the SDs evaluation within an Independent Educational Evaluation
She kept hoping they could be persuaded because she knows from eight years on Keeping Up with the Kardashians the necessity of a family dynamic for ratings success. The estimated 700,000 transgender women and men in the country are virtually all anonymous, too many of them suffering from job discrimination and violence
Laurie Penny on sexism in storytelling: I was a Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Writing about Doctor Who this week got me thinking about sexism in storytelling, and how we rely on lazy character creation in life just as we do in fiction. I felt it sometimes like a sharp pain under the ribcage, the kind of chest pain that lasts for minutes and hours and might be nothing at all or might mean you're slowly dying of something mundane and awful
Laverne Cox Interview: Orange Is the New Black Star On Being Trans
Are there any particular instances of bullying that stand out in your memory? There was this one instance in junior high when I had gotten off the bus and I was chased by a group of kids, which was, you know, pretty normal. Bullied and harassed for appearing feminine while growing up in Mobile, Ala., Cox eventually came out as transgender while living in New York City and took up acting
The Transgender Tipping Point
Almost one year after the Supreme Court ruled that Americans were free to marry the person they loved, no matter their sex, another civil rights movement is poised to challenge long-held cultural norms and beliefs. In 1980, seven years after homosexuality was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a classification bible published by the American Psychiatric Association, transsexualism was added
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