Category: Culture

  • L.A.’s 20 Hottest Restaurants Right Now (May 2018)

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    THR ranks the town’s buzziest dining spots — from Majordomo to 189 by Dominique Ansel — for the month of May. Though few things are more fickle than the entertainment business, the foodie-focused dining scene that serves it surely fits the bill. Restaurants debut every week, yet their moment in the spotlight often is brutish […]

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  • Facebook is scanning your messages for abuse

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    You might assume that chats sent on Facebook Messenger are completely private. But you’d be wrong. Facebook confirmed Thursday that it uses automated tools to scan Messenger chats for malware links and child porn images. It also allows users to report chats that may violate community standards. The company’s moderators can review any messages that […]

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  • Salma Hayek: male Hollywood stars should take pay cut

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    The Cannes film festival is one of the glamorous highlights of the silver screen’s year – a time for sun, stars and self-satisfaction. But this year, the atmosphere is mutinous. On Sunday the Hollywood actor Salma Hayek became the latest to throw yet another grenade into the simmering gender debate, arguing that male movie stars would have […]

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  • Why Americans Are More Anxious Than Ever Before

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    Americans are becoming more anxious about their safety, health, finances, politics and relationships, a new online poll from the American Psychiatric Association finds. Compared to the results of a similar poll a year earlier, 39 percent of adults in the U.S. are more anxious today than they were a year ago. As a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, I […]

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  • Why Great Employees Leave “Great Cultures”

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    “We have a great culture.” We have all heard it. We have all said it. But what does that mean? Ping-Pong tables, free meals, and beer on tap? No. Yoga, CrossFit classes, and massage chairs? I so need that, but no. The promise of being part of a hip, equity-incentivized, fast growing team? Closer, but […]

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  • The Problem with Freedom of Speech in Indonesia

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    Once again, blasphemy has caused a stir in Indonesia — this time over what counts as fiction. In April, Indonesians were shocked by a statement made by a well-known lecturer in philosophy at the University of Indonesia. In a televised debate, Rocky Gerung said that “Scriptures are fictional and there is still more narration.” The context of […]

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  • Royal chef wanted! The queen is hiring a new one (but the pay isn’t great)

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    Who hasn’t dreamed of living as a royal, waking up each morning in Buckingham Palace? Now, a rare opportunity to serve as a chef for the Queen of England (and actually live among royalty!) has popped up: the palace is currently looking for a new Demi Chef de Partie. A chef de what?! A demi chef de partie assists the […]

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  • Is a Chinese-Style Prom Dress Cultural Appropriation?

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    What exactly is cultural appropriation? A 2017 Opinion piece, quoting Susan Scafidi, a law professor at Fordham University, defined it as: “taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else’s culture without permission.” This can include the “unauthorized use of another culture’s dance, dress, music, language, folklore, cuisine, traditional medicine, religious symbols, etc.” […]

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  • Retail, hospitality fastest growing sectors in UAE

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    LinkedIn predicts that digital jobs will experience the fastest growth in the next 15 years Retail and hospitality have been the fastest growing industries in the UAE over the course of the last 15 years since 2003, according to new data from LinkedIn. According to the LinkedIn data, retail and hospitality are followed by the […]

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  • Musical tribute to western culture

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    Michael Martin Murphey brings his five-day WestFest music festival back to Red River For more than 40 years, Michael Martin Murphey has been an indelible figure on the American West cultural landscape. His music career began as an “outlaw” singer-songwriter in the late 1960s in Austin, which was a sleepy town back then and not […]

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