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Attempting to spice up these celebrity lives, illustrator Odessa Begay has created the Museum of Modern Tweets, posting illustrated interpretations of stars' Twitter posts each week. Her works play off poor grammar and lack of context for maximum comedic effect, turning everyday updates into surreal, vibrant scenes. The results include Lance Armstrong sitting on a couch with mythical creatures, Kirstie Alley in a bear suit and Shaq hunting down miniature versions of LeBron James with a butterfly...
...like so many aspects of modern life, the red carpet industry away from Oscar Sunday is struggling to find its niche in a changing world marked by media fragmentation and oversaturation. Once an iconic symbol, the carpet has lost several shades of its crimson hue in a town that now sees about four red-carpet events a night. "It used to be a rare thing and people used to get excited about the red carpet, but now the mystique is gone," says Hollywood publicist Ben Russo, of EMC/Bowery, a player on the Hollywood party scene. "It's way too oversaturated...
After the discussion, Alex Sagan—co-chair of the study group on Jews in modern Europe—said he was impressed by the professors’ systematic approach to understanding the immigrant experience, and the simultaneous evocation of the refugees’ psychological condition...
Holton and Sonnert are currently awaiting the publication of their new book, which applies their findings about the German refugee children to modern-day immigrant populations...
Krikorian is an odd choice for as respected an institution as HLS. The group he heads was established by the racist founder of the modern nativist movement, John Tanton, who has worried about the “educability” of Latinos. “I’ve come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that,” Tanton wrote...