Famous Selfies to celebrate the Oxford Dictionaries word of the year
You’ve certainly taken one—that lean back, reach out, often awkward self portrait. Maybe you’ve shared it on social media, or texted it to a friend. It’s the selfie, which is the Oxford Dictionaries...
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Darren Michaels/Everett Collection TV shows get criticized when they’re behind the times, and when they try to keep up. Selfie, a new comedy from ABC (premiering Sept. 30), is a Pygmalion-like story...
View ArticleThe Next New Ice Bucket Challenge
Whether you think it’s genius or moronic, there’s a brand new instalment in this year’s series of hashtag campaigns for charity. On Monday, journalist and UNICEF U.K. ambassador Jemima Khan urged her...
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A new, and dangerous, kind of distracted driver
(William Howard/Getty Images) Working in traffic enforcement for a quarter of a century has exposed RCMP Cpl. Chris Little to bad driving in all of its manifestations. Recently, though, he’s noticed a...
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Ottawa’s reigning political selfie junkie is not who you think
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (C) poses for a selfie with students during the First Ministers’ meeting in Ottawa, Canada November 23, 2015. (Chris Wattie/Reuters) It’s safe to say that federal...
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The bizarre virtue—and the real problem—of the rise of Instagram-centric...
John Semley is the author of Hater: On the Virtues of Utter Disagreeability. Located on an unassuming strip of Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles’s historic Culver City district, the Museum of Jurassic...
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