Новости за 26.07.2016

Last Friday, the day Season 3 of BoJack Horseman was released on Netflix, I watched the entire, 12-episode run in one sitting. And I did it for you, Tableteers. After this Herculean feat, I’m happy to say that the animated misadventures and crushing depression of Bojack, a horse/man voiced by Will Arnett, once again, make the case that BoJack Horseman is one of the best shows on the air (or, uh, the Internet).

Sarah Silverman and Al Franken spoke at the DNC last night. Franken, a staunch Hillary supporter, and Silverman, who was previously for Bernie before his campaign petered out, were supposed to add some laughs to what’s been an already frustrating convention cycle: Before the DNC even began, an email leak complicated matters because they “clearly showed the committee’s posture of neutrality in the Democratic primary to have been a hollow pretense, just as Bernie Sanders and his supporters long contended,” reported The Atlantic. Читать дальше...

Dizyngoff, the newly opened Israeli-Parisian-Asian fusion restaurant, is halfway between the Potemkin Stairs and the majestic statue of Catherine the Great that replaced one of Lenin in the early nineties. It’s slogan? “Casual dining and optimistic bar.”

The first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia did not get off to an auspicious start for Bernie Sanders. The former presidential hopeful was booed at an afternoon event by his own followers after exhorting them to support Hillary Clinton over Republican nominee Donald Trump.

Literary critic Adam Kirsch is reading a page of Talmud a day, along with Jews around the world.

This fall, Hillary Clinton may very well be chosen to be our nation’s biggest boss. If it happens, the historic nature of this event is likely to impact people of all genders in a lot of different ways, both consciously and not. How will America deal with a female commander-in-chief? What might be in store for Clinton, and for us, if she wins the election? Perhaps another sector still grappling with patriarchal notions of leadership can illuminate some of these questions. So: What can we learn... Читать дальше...