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The Atlantic I Care A Lot The Netflix neo-noir isn’t just about a merciless scammer; it’s about the broken bureaucracies that enable her abuse. Seacia Pavao / Netflix Psychiatric hospitals, nursing homes, and other long-term-care facilities have served as chilling backdrops to some of film’s most arresting psychological thrillers. But the foreboding lighthouse of Shutter Island and the macabre, labyrinthine hospital of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest pale in comparison with both movies’ animating horrors: the wretched treatment of the people trapped within. These works dramatize t...

How Cameo Generated $100 Million Last Year From Celebrity Shout-Out Videos Todd Spangler, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Social media provides an unprecedented way for stars to connect with their fans — but only the upper echelons of celebrities have been able to convert their online presence into cold, hard cash. Steven Galanis, co-founder and CEO of Cameo, says his company is part of a rising wave of direct-to-fan platforms that is changing that, by letting a much broader range of talent make money online. On the latest episode of Variety‘s Strictly Business podcast, Galanis explain...

AUG 28, 20189:00 AM … What worries me most, however, is that companies offering personal genetic testing customarily seem to report back to those sending along a sample of their spit that they are a mix of different “ethnicities.” This is more than simply statistical nonsense. I fear doing this can also be dangerous. Claiming that it is possible to map ancestry in this fashion may be giving discredited old ideas about ethnicity and race new visibility. … We inherit roughly half our genes from our mothers and half from our fathers. If one or both of them should be unknown to you, it is...

DeeOhGee My weekly call to action for you to turn up the songs I can’t stop listening to this week. Turn them up, LOUD.   DeeOhGee- “New Way Of Life” Formerly known as The Blackfoot Gypsies, DeeOhGee were the first band I ever saw live when I first moved to Nashville nearly a decade ago. I’ll never forget randomly seeing them play at a small bar in town and the dude next to me, who was ROCKING OUT, looked at me and said “These guys have IT” After seeing them live that night, and many more times for years after, I have to say that gentleman who was rocking out was 100% correct. Th...

Schiffer Publishing announces 'City Hall by Arthur Drooker' Los Angeles City Hall (1928). Photography copyright Arthur Drooker from the book City Hall published by Schiffer. NEW YORK, NY .-City Hall by Arthur Drooker is the first book to feature striking photographs of the most architecturally distinctive and historically significant city halls in the United States of America. Organized chronologically, this stunning volume presents fifteen remarkable city halls from across the nation, covering the evolution of American civic architecture from the early nineteenth century to the present day a...