Music | Music

In Depth Look: The Rolling Stones, Tattoo You

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit the Rolling Stones’ 1981 album, a blueprint for how to exist as an aging, internationally famous rock ban

The first Stones album I bought when it came out!

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1973: Soul clubs of Memphis and New York

These photographs, taken for The Sunday Times in 1973, are the work of photographer David Reed.

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Ginger Baker, Superstar Rock Drummer With Cream, Is Dead at 80 - The New York Times

Teamed with the guitarist Eric Clapton and the bassist Jack Bruce in the band Cream, Mr. Baker helped redefine the role of the drums in rock.

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The Beatles' 'Abbey Road' Is Strolling to No. 1 In the U.K. | Billboard

The Beatles’ historic album is on track for the U.K. chart crown.

This is absolutely amazing. The Beatles have done this over and over and over again. They are the greatest band in history and history is proving that fact.

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How the Beatles Took Recording Technology to a New Level in 'Abbey Road' | Smithsonian

An expert in sound recording details how the band deployed stereo and synthesizers to put a unique artistic stamp on this iconic album

Entertainment | Television/Film/Books

'The Right Stuff' blasts off for a Veterans Day screening in Hollywood

Classic Hollywood: Philip Kaufman talks about his epic 'The Right Stuff' before a Veterans Day screening in Hollywood

I'm going! I forgot that this was a box office flop when it came out. That is a travesty!

Entertainment | Television/Film/Books

How Tarantino’s team made the ultra-'60s Hollywood in ‘Once Upon a Time’

Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" draws on personal memories for its look at an L.A. gone by, says production designer Barbara Ling.

The LA Times doing its hyperbolic thing again. It wasn’t “ultra 60’s” it was just Hollywood I the 60’s. I was there when they filmed the Hollywood Blvd scenes and, as a native Angeleno who doesn’t remember the 60’s, bit remembers the 70’s well, he did do an amazing job.

Entertainment | Television/Film/Books

George ''Goober'' Lindsey was the first choice to play Spock and our mind is still blown

From gas station worker to science officer? Can you imagine the Mayberry Mind Meld?

SO freaking weird. So weird.

Entertainment | Television/Film/Books

Friends is a Generation X Show. Why Don’t We Call It That?

Baby boomers created it. Millennials and Gen Y keep it popular today. But Friends, which premiered 25 years ago on NBC, will always be about Generation X, even if we don’t talk about it that way.

It's a huge shock that a show created by Baby Boomers and loved by Millennials has its Gen X credentials overlooked. What this author calls "Gen X marginalization" is real.

Entertainment | Television/Film/Books

‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood:’ What Real Movies Inspired Rick Dalton’s Fake Films?

"Bounty Law" and "Tanner" were all inspired by real projects starring Steve McQueen, Vince Edwards, Tab Hunter and more

Business & Finance | Startups

The alternative to VC investing everyone has been waiting for? | Sifted

It is no secret most VCs aren't profitable. So is this members-only blockchain token-based intestment club a better alternative?

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4 Fast Ways to Fund Your Business (Without Venture Capital) | Inc.

Avoid raising money from venture capital firms with these four fast and effective alternatives to fundraising.

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5 come-back tips for startups that have run out of cash | VentureBeat

My team encountered every startup’s worst nightmare: We ran out of money. But we were able to survive and are now thriving. Here's how.

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While Every Startup Doesn't Need a Business Plan, Every Startup Does Need This | Inc.

You have an idea for a startup. But do you need a comprehensive strategy and plan?

Logos are deceptively simple. We worked on our for months. Many many many months ;-)

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To Succeed at Business You Need a Startup Mindset

Scalability, innovation and disruption come at a high cost.

Politics | Politics

Trump to sign order to interpret Judaism as a nationality

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday to interpret Judaism as a nationality and not just a religion, a move that the Trump administration believes will fight what they perceive as anti-Semitism on college campuses, a White House

I am 100% for this. Also: this was LONG overdue. “Jewish” is, uniquely, a nationality and a religion. Yet because, until now, the law only sees us a religion, much of civil rights laws haven’t been applicable to Antisemitism. That’s , very obviously, absurd. Jews are targeted far more than any other religious group, and Antisemitism the law needs to acknowledge that we aren’t “just” a religioun.

Politics | Politics

Trump signs Hong Kong bill denounced by Beijing

The measure is a signal of support to pro-democracy protesters but is likely to heighten tensions with China's government.

I give the president a lot of credit for this. The Hong Kong protestors were waving American flags because they look to us for leadership in the democratic world. This needed to be done. I was heavily critical of Obama for not supporting the Iranian people protesting during the "Green Revolution." Supporting a populace sincerely committed to freedom is always the right thing for Americans to do.

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Can Ilhan Omar Overcome Her Prejudice? - WSJ

I was born in Somalia and grew up amid pervasive Muslim anti-Semitism. Hate is hard to unlearn without coming to terms with how you learned it.

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Top 9 presidential primary debate moments in US history

As the road to 2020 heats up, here are some of the most memorable moments from past primary debates – ranging from Ronald Reagan and the Clintons to Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

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MENKEN: AOC Is Dividing Americans And Inciting Anti-Semitism

After Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) used “concentration camps” and “Never Again” together — a unique reference to the Nazi death camps — and then retweeted leftist Jews hoping to justify the linkage while she simultaneously denied that she ever connected them in the first instance, I honestly thought it couldn’t get worse.

Do people even comprehend why so many of us take this so seriously? Jews, especially over the past few years, have been subjected continually to a rising barrage of antisemitism, physical attacks, an anti-Israel movement that uses propaganda to increasingly mainstream the lie that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism, and a never ending exploitation of OUR history to legitimize any number of political agendas. The reason why the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Yad Vashem, the Auschwitz Museum & the US Holocaust Museum stepped in is because hijacking the language of the Holocaust has been a tool of Holocaust deniers for a very long time. So whether people defending "AOC" understand this or not, there is NO valid use of Holocaust imagery absent literal genocide. That is exactly why no one had a problem applying Holocaust imagery to Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia etc., however applying that imagery to detention centers run by the United States, only serves to trivialize the absolute nightmare of genocide.

AOC knows this, so does Ilhan Omar. The fact that some Jews, unfortunately, agree with them is a sign of their own devotion to ideology or ignorance of the Holocaust, and our own history (unfortunately, neither is unusual), NOT evidence of authority on the subject. Being born Jewish, or having relatives murdered during WWII, does not automatically imbue you with an authoritative understanding of the Shoah or anything else. Legitimate criticism of the border situation deserves a serious public discussion, you can do that without appropriating the worst genocide in human history, and more importantly, without exploiting the memory of its victims.

Miscellaneous | Other Stuff

Are Eye Exams A Great American Scam?

Why is it so difficult to get a new pair of glasses or contacts in this country? It’s easier pretty much everywhere else.

It is especially a scam in California where it is illegal to issue new contacts if the purchaser hasn’t had an exam in the past 12 months. Add that to the fact that one manufacturer owns virtually the entire market and it’s all designed to take money out of hard working people’s pockets to line the pockets of the vision industry and the politicians who get millions in lobbying money from that industry.

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Forget Self-Driving Cars. Bring Back the Stick Shift.

Technology meant to save us from distraction is making us less attentive.

Reps men drive a stick. Or at least know how. Same with cool women.

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Remember When You Could Call the Time?

You still can, and thousands of people do it every day.

I used to love calling the Time Lady! It was a big deal when I was a kid. It seemed so adult. So this is very cool AND there is a YouTube video embedded with the Time Lady’s voice which in hasn’t heard in decades. Someone needs to bring her back-but the other old timey number here is also extremely cool. Now you will always know what the old school time is!

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Billy Dee Williams Issues Weather Warning to Star Wars Fans: 'Don't Forget Your Cape’

You heard Lando.

Miscellaneous | Other Stuff

10 Turkey Myths, Debunked

Let's talk turkey—specifically, turkey myths.

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

Is this the world's most glamorous airport hotel? Inside JFK's Sixties-inspired TWA Hotel

Jane Mulkerrins felt like an extra on 'Mad Men' when she stayed at the new TWA at JFK

I went last week, although I didn't stay there. It was absolutely mind blowing. I would absolutely stay there if I get the chance!

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

The Case Study houses that made Los Angeles a modernist mecca

These homes helped to define modern architecture.

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

The grooviest bachelor pad in Chicago modeled its kitchen after The Brady Bunch

The only thing missing is Alice!

When I was younger I used to want to be rich so that I could build a replica of the Brady Bunch house. This guy, partially, did it. It's not exact, but it evokes the era and it's still very cool in that mid-century way.

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

The Vanishing World of Neon Motel Signs - Atlas Obscura

A photographer has spent decades capturing these symbols of Americana and the open road.

I love these old signs. Many years ago, before everyone had a camera on their phone, I wanted to put together a coffee table book about old neon signs. That was in the '90s. It is very sad to watch the rapidity with which these signs are disappearing. It was/is an endemic part of Americana. Worse, their replacements are the boring, generic, sameness of the typical 21st century roadside experience, which has replaced style with monotony. Not just hotel signs either, but all signage. Have you seen Las Vegas lately? It looks a lot more like any other new urban environment than Las Vegas. It's just another symbol of the current American desire to replace individualism with conformity.

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

Don the Beachcomber to close Sunday in Sunset Beach; new location being sought

Renowned tiki restaurant Don the Beachcomber will close Sunday night after nearly 10 years at its Sunset Beach location, the restaurant announced Friday.

Southern California is intent on becoming nothing but a soulless land of giant steel and glass boxes.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

How Trump’s executive order on antisemitism originated in Harry Reid’s office

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order today that will formally adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism.  Details: The measure, which penalizes colleges and universities under federal

Oops! So it turns out that the process began with democrats. What would the reaction from the people yelling “Antisemitism!” be if a republican POTUS has signed this? He would have been praised ENDLESSLY for fighting for Jewish Americans. From the article:

“Behind the scenes: Wednesday’s signing is the culmination of a multi-year effort led by an influential group of Jewish Democrats and a private equity businessman from New York.”

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Elder Of Ziyon - Apparently, protecting Jews from antisemitism is now considered antisemitic

From the NYT (I am not going to fisk the article itself, which is biased towards BDS in unreal ways:)

The criticisms of this is absolutely INSANE. People need to wake up. There are far more important issues at stake that demand gay more than simply opposing anything Trump says. For all of the critics: GROW UP.

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Hallmark’s making some Hanukkah movies. The only problem? They’re anti-Semitic.

These holiday specials are really Christmas movies with Jewish characters, and they draw on old, dangerous tropes.

For the record, I don’t agree that President Trump invoked a “trope” when he referred to someone doing some shifty things as “shifty.” Remarking on someone Jewish in unflattering ways isn’t itself antisemitic. However, the idea that Chanukah is “merely” Jewish Xmas or that Jews are somehow “missing out” by not celebrating Xmas is absurd. We literally have holidays every month of the year except one and in some cases-multiple holidays. That they also felt compared to make the Jewish characters into cliches worthy of the worst types of antisemitic European tropes is disgusting. Hallmark shouldn’t be making movies about holidays that they do NOT understand, and don’t lend themselves to sugary, sappy, empty confections of predictable, mindless nonsense.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Israeli team uses silicon chip to deliver Alzheimer's-busting protein to brain

In Technion, Bar-Ilan trials, nanochip ferries 'neural growth factor' -- which combats neurodegenerative diseases -- and releases it where needed, overcoming blood-brain barrier

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Columbia University to Hold Israel Divestment Referendum; Supporters Chant ‘From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free’

The Columbia College Student Council (CCSC) meets on Nov. 24, 2019. Photo: Screenshot / CCSC. Student leaders at Columbia University …

Whenever anyone says "From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free," they are calling for the destruction of Israel. The river is the Jordan and the sea is the Mediterranean. So this isn't a call for a free "Palestinian" state, but for an Arab state that exists in the absence of Israel. It is pure antisemitism. Yet it is allowed to be used, and is legitimized, constantly on college campuses. There is no way that if students called for the destruction of any other nation (the one exception is America), this wouldn't be tolerated. But it's the Jews, and the people who allow and participate in this are racists, so it's not only allowed, but considered to be virtuous.

Science & Technology | Science & Space

Reaction Engines’ Mach 5 engine is just the tip of the new aerospace boom | TechCrunch

Imagine a hypersonic passenger aircraft that would cut the journey time between London and New York to around two hours. At Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound, the aircraft would complete a trip across the Atlantic in around 120 minutes. Mach 5 is m

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Chris Kraft, legendary flight director for NASA, dead at 95

Chris Kraft, the creator and longtime leader of NASA's Mission Control, died Monday in Houston, just two days after the 50th anniversary of what was his and NASA's crowning achievement: Apollo 11's moon landing.

Sad news.

Science & Technology | Science & Space

How going to the Moon changed the universe—back on Earth

What we get wrong about Apollo.

Science & Technology | Science & Space

The birth of the electronic beep: The story behind the sound that rules our lives.

The story behind the sound that rules our lives.

Science & Technology | Science & Space

Why the Moon landing matters, 50 years later

We owe our current digital age to the 1960s Space Race. What will today’s Space Race herald for the future?

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'Machete' to the rescue: Actor Danny Trejo helps save child trapped in overturned car in Sylmar

Actor Danny Trejo got the chance to play real-life hero Wednesday when he helped rescue a young child trapped in an overturned car in Sylmar.

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Al Jazeera’s Disgraceful Holocaust-Denying Video Showcases Qatari Evil For All To See

Over the weekend, Qatari regime propaganda outfit Al Jazeera published and subsequently took down an unfathomably anti-Semitic video that questioned the number of Jews murdered by the Thir

I've been arguing for a decade that Al Jazeera isn't a legitimate news site, yet millions of Americans are deluded into believing what they are seeing is new, when the reality is that they are an antisemitic, Holocaust denying, pro-Islamist rag that is the state news of Qatar. That didn't stop Ilhan Omar from quoting AL Jazeera the day after they did this, of course.

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President Trump hosts Oval Office celebration for 4 World War II vets - U.S. - Stripes

President Donald Trump treated four World War II veterans to an Oval Office meeting Thursday, fulfilling a birthday wish for 95-year-old Allen Jones and giving three other veterans age 100 and older a day to remember.

I love this story. I especially like that one of the men is visiting all 50 states so that people can meet a WWII vet because, and this isn't in the story, he regretted not meeting a Civil War vet when he had the chance. We're a young country. Most people don't realize that just a few lifetimes separate us from our nation's founding.

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How Southern Cal athletics got caught in college admissions scandal

Admissions consultant William Singer allegedly worked with USC senior associate athletic director to get students admitted as walk-on athletes.

I worked hard to get into USC. As an alumnus I noticed years ago that the entire idea of the "Trojan family" is a marketing ploy and a lie. In my case, I had serious concerns about professors at the school, antisemitism, and Holocaust denial. SC literally wouldn't even meet with me to discuss these issues. They ignored dozens of calls and emails. They are frauds. I am assuming that it is the same at all of these schools: MONEY is all that matters. for them.

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Holocaust Knowledge Gap Is Global Crisis

A new study finds that almost half of Canadian adults (49%) could not identify a single Nazi camp or ghetto, while a majority (54%) of Canadian adults and more than 6-in-10 Canadians under thirty-five did not know that 6 million Jews were murdered during

Let’s be honest about this, much, not all, of the ignorance stems from antipathy to the Jewish people and the Arab world’s concerted effort to make Holocaust denial mainstream (even mainstream universities like my alma mater, USC, have normalized it).