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Las Vegas Sun (lasvegassun.com) 

Women descend on DC a day after anarchists create chaos

A day after self-described anarchists created chaos, thousands of women are descending upon Washington for what is expected to be a more orderly show of force on the first full day of Donald Trump's presidency. Organizers of Saturday's Women's March on Washington expect more than 200,000 people to attend their gathering, a number that could rival Trump's swearing-in ceremony. Attendees are …

Yahoo TV 

‘Beware the Slenderman’ Doc: What You Need to Know About the Meme-Motivated Attempted Murder Before You Watch

On May 31, 2014, two Wisconsin tweens lured a third into the suburban Waukesha woods, stabbed her 19 times, and left her to die while they washed up at a nearby Walmart. The true crime tale, which has become known as “the Slenderman stabbing,” only got weirder from there as details of why — or more accurately for who — the then 12-year-olds attacked Payton “Bella” Leutner. In separate interrogation rooms, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser told detectives that they were attempting to become “proxies” of the Slenderman... Читать дальше...

The New Yorker 

Why Brazil’s Greatest Writer Stopped Writing

In 1973, the Brazilian writer Raduan Nassar quit his job. After six years as editor-in-chief at the Jornal do Bairro, an influential left-wing newspaper that opposed Brazil’s military regime, he had reached an impasse with one of the co-founders, who was also his older brother. The paper had until then been distributed for free, and the brothers couldn’t agree on whether to charge subscribers. Nassar, then thirty-seven, left the paper, and spent a year in his São Paulo apartment, working twelve hours a day on a book... Читать дальше...

Vox 

Barack Obama and Donald Trump on their favorite books

It’s inauguration weekend, so a lot of this week’s national discourse has been political by default. Unsurprisingly, that theme also extended to the week’s various discussions of books and related subjects. So as the era of President Donald Trump officially begins, here’s our more-political-than-usual roundup of the best online writing about books and related subjects for the week of January 16, 2017.

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Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

Marcel Pagnol's classic French films from the '30s get a long-overdue revival

Behold the multiple paradoxes of Marcel Pagnol.

 Once upon a time he was France's most celebrated filmmaker, the first of his craft to be selected to the lofty Academie Francaise. His best-known works from the 1930s, the warm and richly emotional trilogy of "Marius," "Fanny" and "Cesar," were once...

Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

Emojis are everywhere - including in their own Hollywood movie

Over the last few years, emojis have become a ubiquitous form of communication. The tiny digital icons, found on your smartphone keyboard and elsewhere, connect users and have become their own language. The original emojis, designed by Japanese mobile provider NTT DoCoMo and released in 1999, were...

Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

New video: 'The Light Between Oceans' gets lost at sea

New on Blu-ray

“The Light Between Oceans” (Touchstone/DreamWorks DVD, $29.99; Blu-ray, $39.99; also available on VOD)

There’s an outstanding movie stuck inside the meandering melodrama “The Light Between Oceans.” Writer-director Derek Cianfrance’s adaptation of M.L. Stedman’s novel isn’t as lean...