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Covers:  streaming, animation, art, tv, movies, books, comics, "geek" culture, travel, the outdoors, food and drink, and general news
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In The Boy and the Heron, the 'Lie' Is the Point

In The Boy and the Heron, the 'Lie' Is the Point

Hayao Miyazaki's latest film 'The Boy and the Heron' leans on his lived experience, but as with all his stori…

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'It's Kind of Embarrassing': Why Animators Are Unhappy With the Oscars

'It's Kind of Embarrassing': Why Animators Are Unhappy With the Oscars

The Oscar for Best Animated Feature is only a couple of decades old, but that's been enough time for animator…

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Everything You Never Thought to Ask About In-flight Entertainment

Everything You Never Thought to Ask About In-flight Entertainment

Warner Bros. Discovery's licensing president, David Decker, explains how movies and TV hit the skies - someti…

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If Rotoscoping Isn't Animation, Nothing Is

If Rotoscoping Isn't Animation, Nothing Is

Richard Linklater's rotoscoped Netflix movie 'Apollo 10½' didn't meet the Oscars' "definition of animation," …

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Saying Goodbye to the Newseum in the Age of Fake News

Saying Goodbye to the Newseum in the Age of Fake News

It felt important to visit the Newseum 10 years ago, when every journalist I knew still believed great report…

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How 'Batman: The Animated Series' and 'Akira' Are Forever Connected

How 'Batman: The Animated Series' and 'Akira' Are Forever Connected

A giant explosion of light and sound. Biker gangs and crime-ridden streets. Crooked politicians and a militar…

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The $45 Gizmo I Won’t Drive Without

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By Eric Vilas-Boas, Eric Vilas Boas
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One cold February morning this year, I climbed into my tiny, ever-dependable Prius C, pushed the start button, and the 13-year-old hybrid defied me in a way it never had before. Every light on the dash started blinking in a rapid, irregular rhythm before the whole machine just shut down. My battery was dead, my toddler was hungry, it was below freezing outside, and I was stranded on a sleepy street in western Queens with my closest jump start about an hour away. Disaster.
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Bari Weiss Has a New Vision for 60 Minutes

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By Eric Vilas-Boas, Eric Vilas Boas
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An overhaul is underway at broadcast’s most successful news program. Amid a , CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has picked a new executive producer to lead the (historically) editorially independent flagship newsmagazine program 60 Minutes: Nick Bilton.
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The Greatest Robot Anime Is Back With Something to Prove

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By Eric Vilas-Boas, Eric Vilas Boas
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A new Mobile Suit Gundam movie is mad as hell and refuses to sacrifice the weirdness that makes the franchise work. For all of the new Gundam anime film’s hulking mechas and speaker-bursting ordnance, it’s a quiet moment of exposition that draws a red line under its politics.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

interning at SPIN dot com way back when

Have you ever used a typewriter?

yes

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a few companies control the distribution pipelines, which makes getting factual info out to the public that needs it harder than ever
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