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February 20, 2015 Prachi Gupta

“A lot of people will sit down and watch the Oscar show this Sunday and then go and indulge in cocaine.” Street artist Plastic Jesus was just stating a simple truth when he said this to the New York Daily News, but his new sculpture, which makes the same statement, turns the words into a […]

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September 4, 2014 Rhett Jones

Jon Stewart’s directorial debut Rosewater premiered at the Telluride Film Festival over Labor Day weekend to reportedly “some of the longest lines in Telluride history.” This is the movie that he was working on when he took last summer off, giving us the rise of John Oliver. Rosewater tells the story of Maziar Bahari, a journalist who […]

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March 17, 2014 Andy Cush

Turkish protester Ali Emre Mazlumoğlu took the above photo from the back of a police van March 7. Selfie dediğin polis otosunda gözaltındayken çekilir (7 Mart) pic.twitter.com/oc5Lit3Z1z — Ali Emre Mazlumoğlu (@AEMazlumoglu) March 10, 2014 The caption, roughly translated, says they’re in custody in a police car. The photo, of course, recalls Ellen Degeneres’ famous Oscars […]

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