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A Crime So Monstrous
March 25th, 2009 by EditorsGlobal fashion blogs
January 21st, 2009 by Editors
If you believe fashion editors, spring’s hottest trend is “recession chic.” During this generation’s largest economic crisis, magazines still face pressure to push high-priced goods in glossy editorials. But their strategy of merely mixing Walmart with Prada hasn’t sustained reader loyalty, or spared women’s magazines any ridicule (“What’s Wrong with Vogue?”). The Audit Bureau of Circulations reports that leading titles like Vogue and Glamour have suffered double digit declines in newsstand sales, despite shifting emphasis to more “affordable” styles…
China’s Finest Export: the Holga
October 31st, 2008 by Editors
Digital may have conquered mainstream photography, but the low-tech Chinese Holga rules the underground. A toy film camera that retails for $28 in the U.S. and sports a cheap plastic lens, the Holga is the darling of creative photographers worldwide.
Wanted: Superheroes Seeking Smart & Strong Women
May 6th, 2008 by Editors
The world has been obsessed with superheroes since at least 1938, when DC Comics launched Superman. Since then, like Spiderman, Captain America, Wonder Woman, and the Fantastic Four, Superman has been— with uncommon strength and virtue—a leading superhero archetype. The popularity of superhero comics is cyclical, often surging during war, perhaps why they are flourishing once again. The Incredible Hulk, Batman, and Iron Man battle evil in Hollywood this year. This month, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opens “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy,” an exhibit that celebrates their glamorous haute couture…
Betrayed: Revealing American Indifference to the Plight of Iraqi Collaborators, One Translator at a Time
May 6th, 2008 by Editors“Everything was shocking, everything was new,” says Adnan, an Iraqi translator working for the Americans in George Packer’s first-time play “Betrayed“. “But that was before.”
New Yorker writer George Packer’s “Betrayed” takes a look at Iraq through “before” and “after” lenses, illuminating the lives of Iraqis who have risked everything for the Americans, only to find [...]
