Culture & Media news

• The Moving Story of One Teenager's Transition and His Mother's Path to Acceptance

  23-05-2017 23:32
  
  Click here for reuse options!The documentary "Real Boy" examines the complicated relationship between a trans teen and his mother.In his mother's heart, trans teen Bennett is still Rachel."I am literally a boy with the wrong body parts," the 19-year-old explains in the film."I just think that there is the argument of, you're not," his mother, Suzy Reinke, tells him.That brief exchange is at the crux of "Real Boy," a new Independent Lens documentary examining Suzy and Bennett's complicated relati
  
  Read more

• British prime minister: Terror threat raised to “critical,” another attack may be imminent

  23-05-2017 23:31 via hotair.com
  
  At first the bomber was assumed to be a “lone wolf,” then a “known wolf.” Then British police arrested someone in connection with last night’s attack. Now they have intelligence that a second attack may be impending, pushing the terror threat level to “critical” for the first time in 10 years. How big is this cell?
  The practical effect of raising the threat level is that the British military will be deployed to support the police in guarding “key s
  
  Read more

• Robert Reich: Trump’s Budget Is Cruel and Deviant

  23-05-2017 23:10
  
  We are a better nation than this. For years, conservatives warned that liberals were “defining deviancy downward.” They said that by tolerating bad social behavior, liberals in effect lowered what was deemed acceptable behavior overall – allowing social norms to decline. There was never a lot of evidence for that view, but there’s little question that Donald Trump is actively defining deviancy downward for the nation as a whole – whether it’s by lying, de
  
  Read more

• Washington Post: Say, these radical Islamists don’t like women very much

  23-05-2017 23:01 via hotair.com
  
  We know the suicide bomber’s name, but still don’t know precisely what motivated the selection of this venue on this night. The Washington Post published a story today which poses a question about the Manchester attack: Was the Ariana Grande concert targeted simply because it offered a large crowd of vulnerable targets or was this intended to be an attack on western women?
  Previous bomb attacks in Brussels and Paris have targeted airports, subway stations, and theaters. An attac
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Rush: Melania didn’t slap Trump’s hand away, she gave him a “modified fist bump”

  23-05-2017 22:31 via hotair.com
  
  Made me laugh, as the Trumps don’t strike me as a fist-bump sort of couple. But judge for yourself in case you missed John’s post earlier this afternoon:It’s not a fist bump. I don’t think this is right either:Unpopular opinion: I don't think Melania slapped away @realDonaldTrump's hand, I think they just awkwardly missed each other's hands.
  — David Rutz (@DavidRutz) May 23, 2017If they missed each other’s hands, FLOTUS would have turned and grabbed his hand a
  
  Read more

• DHS: More than 700K visa overstays in 2016 alone

  23-05-2017 22:01 via hotair.com
  
  Forget about the wall or deportations or travel bans. These days, if you so much as suggest something as relatively mild as a fresh look at the number of visas we issue and how we track them you are identified as obviously being a racist. After all, we’re not talking about ISIS bombers swimming across Lake Erie to get into our country from Canada, right? These are tourists or students or temporary workers who just want to help.
  Unfortunately, while that’s a popular line of argument i
  
  Read more

• Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Jeff Dunetz, Jeffrey Addicott

  23-05-2017 21:31 via hotair.com
  
  Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. (If it’s muted, right-click the video and choose Unmute.) Join us as we welcome:Andrew Malcolm joins us for Tuesdays with Andrew! The Prince of Twitter and I will discuss all of the hot political stories of the day. Could Robert Mueller’s appointment as
  
  Read more

• President Duterte declares martial law in Philippines

  23-05-2017 21:01 via hotair.com
  
  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law on the southern island of Mindanao Tuesday. Duterte, who was on a trip to Russia to meet with Vladimir Putin, will cut his trip short and return home. Duterte’s action was prompted by a chaotic battle between Philippine security forces and a group linked to ISIS. From the Associated Press:
  Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said troops raided the hideout of a top terrorist suspect in southern Marawi city on Tuesday, sparking a
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Seth Rich’s brother begs Hannity’s producer: Please stop pushing this conspiracy theory about him and Wikileaks; Update: Fox retracts story on Seth Rich investigation

  23-05-2017 20:31 via hotair.com
  
  “ARE WE STILL AIRING THAT SH*T?!” a Fox News reporter texted to the Daily Beast when asked for comment about Hannity going all-in on the Rich conspiracy theory.
  They’re still airing that sh*t. The Rich family has asked them to stop.NEW: Brother of Seth Rich pleads with @seanhannity to stop spreading conspiracy theory in letter to exec producer https://t.co/Z3VtVk2vRz pic.twitter.com/z0rphLWmXQ
  — Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 23, 2017The surge of interest in Rich’s
  
  Read more

• Change: MSNBC wins scoop-filled week … and Fox drops to third in key demo

  23-05-2017 20:01 via hotair.com
  
  The hits just kept on coming last week — and viewers just kept on tuning into MSNBC. After 21 years of chasing Fox News, it finally scored its first ratings win last week, both in total viewers and in the key 25-54 age demo. Fox came in second for prime time overall, but dropped to third in the demo for the first time in almost two decades:
  MSNBC finished first in the key 25-54 demographic and in total viewers against its cable news rivals last week for the first time in its 21-year existe
  
  Read more

• Yeesh: Poll gives Democrat Jon Ossoff seven-point lead in Georgia House special election

  23-05-2017 19:31 via hotair.com
  
  Not the best. Really not terrific!
  Handel trails Democratic upstart Jon Ossoff 51% to 44% at this hour, close enough in a low-turnout, stand-alone runoff to be anyone’s call, though clearly Ossoff is in a better position than is Handel.The district is Republican leaning but not Republican invincible: Trump carried the district in 2016, but only by 1.5 percentage points, compared to, say, the neighboring 9th Congressional District, which Trump carried by 58 percentage points.Ossoff does not
  
  Read more

• The Library of Congress Makes 25 Million Records From Its Catalog Free to Download

  23-05-2017 19:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Image by Carol Highsmith, via Wikimedia Commons
  A quick fyi: According to Fortune, The Library of Congress announced that it “will make 25 million records from its catalog available for the public to download.” They add:
  Prior to this, the records—which include books and serials, music and manuscripts, and maps and visual materials spanning from 1968 to 2014—have only been accessible through a paid subscription. These files will be available for free download on [the Lib
  
  Read more

• Melania Trump’s swat of the President’s hand became international news

  23-05-2017 19:01 via hotair.com
  
  When the Trumps arrived in Israel Monday they were met at the airport by Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara. As the four of them walked down a red carpet away from Air Force One, Trump reached back with his left hand toward his wife Melania who was trailing a bit behind. As Melania caught up she swatted Trump’s hand away. This brief moment quickly became a social media sensation. Notice the number of retweets of this video clip:Well this is embarassing https://t.co/XaPL1AbCm5 pic.twitter
  
  Read more

• Experts Say Trump's Deteriorating Speech Could Be Sign of Early Dementia

  23-05-2017 17:33
  
  The president wasn't always this incoherent. Research suggests it may be a result of cognitive decline.It was the kind of utterance that makes professional transcribers question their career choice: " … there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign, but I can always speak for myself - and the Russians, zero." When President Trump offered that response to a question at a press conference last week, it was the…
   Related StoriesIs Donald Trump's Casino Empire Lin
  
  Read more

• Is Donald Trump's Casino Empire Linked to Money Laundering?

  23-05-2017 16:55
  
  Past financial crimes, rather than collusion, may be the president’s biggest problem right now.So Donald Trump screwed the pooch again. This time the president did it on camera, standing next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when he made a point of quieting the room and addressing reporters to say this out of the blue:Just so you understand, I never mentioned it, the word or the name Israel. I never mentioned it during that conversation. They were all saying I did. So you
  
  Read more

• A Big List of Free Art Lessons on YouTube

  23-05-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It may seem like a dubious honor to belong to a select group that includes some of my favorite creative people: art school dropouts. But while a failed endeavor can be painful, many a dropout learns that the experience is valuable not only because failures can fuel future success, but also because the skills, techniques, and ways of thinking one picks up in the first, “boot camp,” year of art school are widely applicable to every creative endeavor.
  My favorite art school cl
  
  Read more

• Angry Man Wearing 'Make America Great Again' Hat Booted Off Flight to Chants of 'Lock Him Up!'

  23-05-2017 16:26
  
  The abusive passenger allegedly laid claim to seats that weren't his.An unidentified passenger on a United Airlines flight was upset over not getting his seat upgraded on his Newark-bound flight and essentially picked a flight with all the other passengers onboard. The back story from the Gothamist:United Airlines ejected a Trump fan from a Newark-bound international flight over the weekend after the man allegedly laid claim to other people's seats.The Saturday flig
  
  Read more

• Elizabeth Warren Goes Nuclear on Trump and DeVos' Plan to Gut Education Beyond All Recognition

  23-05-2017 14:41
  
  The proposed budget "would ruin lives," says the Massachusetts senator.Education Secretary Betsy DeVos finds herself under fire again, this time for a proposed $10.6 billion budget cut to her department. And much as she did during DeVos' confirmation hearing in February, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is leading the opposition. Since January, when DeVos was handpicked for the role, "the big complaint was that this is a woman who does not believe in public education," Warren arg
  
  Read more

• Keith Olbermann Unloads on 'Subhuman' Sean Hannity in Righteous, Trump-Fueled Tirade

  23-05-2017 14:35
  
  “There are no standards, there are no morals...there are only Kellyanne Conway’s alternative facts."Keith Olbermann broadcast an angry rebuke of Fox News and Sean Hannity.The GQ special correspondent used his "The Resistance" platform to describe Fox News as, “these subhuman creatures, these Trump apologists.”“It underscores yet again the lengths to which those who enabled Trump to seize power in our country will defend that power and him,” Olbe
  
  Read more

• 'Morning Joe' Panel Explains How Trump Is Sealing His Own Doom

  23-05-2017 14:22
  
  "He incriminates himself every day."The news that President Donald Trump asked the two top U.S. intelligence officials to push back against the Russia investigation could be the most clear evidence of a cover-up that has yet been revealed, according to panelists on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”Panelist Mark Halperin, senior political analyst for MSNBC and Bloomberg Television, said the news was perhaps the most serious development yet and showed top government officials believed the W
  
  Read more

• Stephen Colbert Takes Apart Trump Official's Deeply Disturbing Observation About Saudi Arabia

  23-05-2017 13:18
  
  Can Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross really be this clueless?Donald Trump has called for "extreme vetting" of all persons entering the United States from the Middle East. Perhaps those standards should be applied to the president himself upon his return from the region, wonders Stephen Colbert."By the way, federal judges, now would be a good time to reinstate that travel ban," the "Late Show" host quipped Monday. "He'll be flying in from a dangerous part of the world, he's said some radical stuff&
  
  Read more

• Visit a New Digital Archive of 2.2 Million Images from the First Hundred Years of Photography

  23-05-2017 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Interested in photography? You’re in the right place. Over the years, we’ve compiled free classes on digital photography, hundreds of photography lectures, courses on photography appreciation, and documentaries on famous greats like Alfred Stieglitz, Diane Arbus, Edward Weston, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. You can learn the history of photography in “five animated minutes,” see the venerable art of tintype recreated, and visit archives from the Soviet Union, the collection
  
  Read more

• Global Embryo Culture Media Market to Grow at a CAGR of 9.2% by 2021 - Key Vendors are Cook Medical ... - Business Wire (press release)

  23-05-2017 11:14 via businesswire.com
  
  Global Embryo Culture Media Market to Grow at a CAGR of 9.2% by 2021 - Key Vendors are Cook Medical ...
  Business Wire (press release)
  The report, Global Embryo Culture Market 2017-2021, has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. The report covers the market landscape and its growth prospects over the coming years. The report also ...and more »
  
  Read more

• Marriyum urges media to highlight Pakistani tradition, culture to world - Radio Pakistan (press release)

  23-05-2017 10:56 via radio.gov.pk
  
  Radio Pakistan (press release)
  Marriyum urges media to highlight Pakistani tradition, culture to world
  Radio Pakistan (press release)
  Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb says provincial governments should join hands with federal government for portraying positive image and national narrative of Pakistan to the world. Talking to newsmen while ...and more »
  
  Read more

• How Famous Paintings Inspired Cinematic Shots in the Films of Tarantino, Gilliam, Hitchcock & More: A Big Supercut

  23-05-2017 09:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s no accident that one of the best-known series of cinema-analyzing video essays bears the title Every Frame a Painting. When describing the height of film’s visual potential, we often draw metaphors from art history, but the relationship also goes in another direction: more often than we might think, the filmmakers and their collaborators looked to the canvases of the masters for inspiration in the first place. In this trilogy of short video essays, “Film Mee
  
  Read more

• Coca-Cola Sponsors Animal Cruelty and Deaths of Iditarod Sled Dogs

  23-05-2017 08:30
  
  Dogs should not be treated like snowmobiles with fur.Running a marathon is a physically grueling feat—one most of us would never even attempt. For those who do, finishing is considered a remarkable accomplishment. So try to imagine running four marathons in a single day, and throw in biting wind, treacherous terrain and freezing temperatures. Then do it all over again for the next eight days.That's what the dogs used in the Iditarod are forced to do.Since 1995, the top finishers have cover
  
  Read more

• Manchester Arena Attack: What We Know So far

  23-05-2017 05:28
  
  The events around Manchester Arena have been fast moving and confusing. Here is what we know so far A suspected terror attack hit a pop concert in Manchester on Monday evening, with many dead and dozens injured. Here is what we know so far:Police have confirmed that at least 19 people were killed in an explosion at an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena. Police say the explosion is being “treated as a terrorist incident until we have further information”.Officers
  
  Read more

Follow @CultureMediaNws on Twitter!