Monday, August 19, 2013
Did You Read __________? / News Did you read about Michael Shannon, stop-and-frisk, and Tolkien's Yiddish translator?
Posted By Reader staff on 08.19.13 at 11:23 AM
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Hey, did you read:
• This close look at how medical marijuana is grown, tested, turned into usable products, and sold in Colorado? —Mick Dumke
• Michael Shannon's interview with Malibu magazine, including his more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger comments about a Reader theater critic? (Starts on page 88.) —Tony Adler
• Political columnist Brian Beutler's take on New York City's stop-and-frisk program, inspired by his own near-fatal encounter with an armed mugger? —Drew Hunt
• Dwight Garner's epiphany about self-help books, buried in a review of three books meant to help parents wean their children from the Internet? ("But it’s been a lifelong mistake of mine never to take advice from someone who can’t write like a demon.") —Aimee Levitt
• That judicial authorities in Egypt have decided it's past time to release Hosni Mubarak? —Kate Schmidt
• About J.R.R. Tolkien's Yiddish translator, who just finished Der Hobit? —Aimee Levitt
• The new allegations that British special forces were behind Princess Diana's death? —Gwynedd Stuart
• That David Miranda, partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, was detained for nine hours under Britain's Terrorism Act as he transited through Heathrow airport? —John Dunlevy
• That the mayor of Rio de Janeiro really, really wants Woody Allen to make a movie in his city? —Drew Hunt
• That despite the absence of the Blue Angels, this year's Air and Water Show still drew approximately 1.7 million people? —Tal Rosenberg
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