Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Did You Read __________? / News Did you read about property taxes, Barbie dolls, and Soho House?
Posted By Reader staff on 09.22.15 at 11:35 AM
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Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, alarm, amuse, or inspire us.
Hey, did you read:
• Mayor Emanuel's pitch for raising property taxes? —Gwynedd Stuart
• That Volkswagen has said 11 million of its diesel cars worldwide incorporate software the EPA says deliberately evades pollution tests? —John Dunlevy
• How a Siri version of Barbie dolls has been made possible by implementing artificial intelligence? —Sue Kwong
• That the Met will no longer use blackface in its performances of Otello? —Brianna Wellen
• That CD sales dropped 31.5 percent in the first half of 2015? —Gwynedd Stuart
• About Soho House, the work-space-slash-playground for "creatives"? —Tal Rosenberg
• About why this female editor quit her dream newspaper job? —Brianna Wellen
• About the film Buster Keaton and Samuel Beckett collaborated on 50 or so years ago, now the subject of a "kino-essay"? —Kate Schmidt
• About spending a week in the land of Jane Austen? —Aimee Levitt
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