Funny New Animated Movie
Have you seen the trailer for the new movie The Secret Life of Pets? It’s a comedy about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day, and stars big time...
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New True-Crime Documentary Series
We’ve talked about true-crime stories like Serial (can’t wait for season two!) and The Jinx before, but this December, Netflix is joining the ranks and releasing a true-crime documentary called Making a Murderer. The 10-episode series, directed by Laura Ricciardi...
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Narcos, Netflix Original Series
Have you watched the Netflix Original series Narcos? Based on the true story of Columbia’s infamously violent Medellin Cartel and Pablo Escobar as well as United States DEA agents, Narcos is getting a lot of buzz...
Read MoreOn Making Hard Decisions
Yesterday, I was struck by this Ted Talk by Ruth Chang that explores how to make hard decisions. Ruth explains a hard, early-adult decision that she struggled with and that many — myself included —...
Read MoreNew IFC Series: Documentary Now!
Have you seen previews for the new IFC docu-comedy Documentary Now! created by Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, and Seth Meyers? The six-episode series is hosted by Helen Mirren and is a parody of some of the world’s best-known documentaries....
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Images of Endangered Species Projected Onto the Empire State Building
On Saturday night, artists Louie Psihoyos and Travis Threlkel projected images of endangered species onto the Empire State Building. Using 40 stacked, 20,000-lumen projectors on the roof of a building on West 31st Street, they projected a...
Read MoreScheduling Snafus
These days it seems increasingly more difficult to make plans than it was just out of college and even those first few years out of college. Remember when making plans only required one or two days...
Read MoreMad Men is Over [insert sadface emoji]
Did you watch the finale of ‘Mad Men?’ What did you think? There were so many predictions rolling around the internet about how the show was going to end (like this one), and I had...
Read MoreDove: Choose Beautiful
This moving short film by Dove is part of a new campaign, Dove: Choose Beautiful, where women from five cities around the globe (San Francisco, Shanghai, Delhi, London, and São Paolo) are filmed as they walk up to...
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Are You Wearing A Blue Shirt Today?
Today is the eighth annual World Autism Awareness Day. Have you noticed lots of people wearing blue? To celebrate the awareness event, people from all over “light the world up blue.” Global landmarks go blue as well! Here’s a sneaky...
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