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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A screen shot from Toy Story 3, or the robot-Barbie future?
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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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