The Remaker: King Kong 1933 vs. 1976 vs. 2005

After being gone for far too long, The Remaker returns with another triple feature! King Kong is a classic monster movie, and with more Kong on the horizon, it only felt right to pit these three movies against each other. Which one deserves your attention? Your scorn? Find out in this episode!
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To Rebuild 'The Collapse of Parenting,' It's Going to be a Challenge

Parents struggle with the balance of being a friend versus being a taskmaster. Their job, says Dr. Leonard Sax, is to "keep your child safe" and "give kids choices in some domains but not in others."
Read more: http://snapzu.com/rti9/to-rebuild-the-collapse-of-parenting-its-going-to-be-a-challenge

A Day Off

Ian-Navarro's DeviantArt Gallery
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Crown Casino high-roller named as threat to Australian sport

One of Asia's biggest unregulated bookmakers, an alleged organised crime figure, is identified by law enforcement as a potential threat to the integrity of sport across Australia.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Dino55/crown-casino-high-roller-named-as-threat-to-australian-sport

Super Djokovic wins sixth Australian Open title

Novak Djokovic wins the Australian Open title for a sixth time, beating Andy Murray in straight sets at Rod Laver Arena.
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The Best of Sundance 2016: ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ Viggo Mortensen, and More

It was a historic year at the Park City, Utah, fest, with a record $17.5 million purchase and plenty of outstanding films and performances. Here are the best of the best.
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George RR Martin: when writers just can't finish their books

The Game of Thrones creator still hasn’t finished the sixth book in A Song of Ice and Fire – placing him in a long tradition of writers, from Chaucer to Dickens
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Everything We Know About Harry Potter's 4 New Wizarding Schools

J.K. Rowling continues to expand the Harry Potter universe ahead of the November release of the spin-off movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/b1ackbird/everything-we-know-about-harry-potters-4-new-wizarding-schools

Kalamazoo

Every year, three thousand people gather in Kalamazoo for the sake of the years 400 to 1400 (approximately) of the Common Era. The International Congress on Medieval Studies, held annually at Western Michigan University, is the largest gathering of medievalists on earth.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/gladsdotter/kalamazoo

The book series that brought space opera into the 21st century

The Ancillary novels made interstellar war as complicated as conflict in the real world.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/nanno/the-book-series-that-brought-space-opera-into-the-21st-century

A Guy Like Me

One of the reasons I’ve made it as long as I have in the league is because I specifically know I’m not an All-Star.
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Jamie xx - Gosh (Official Music Video)

Directed by: Erik Wernquist with photos by NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
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Angelique Kerber stuns Serena Williams to clinch Australian Open title

Angelique Kerber stunned Serena Williams to claim a first major title at the Australian Open, denying the world No1 her seventh crown in Melbourne and the chance to pull level with Steffi Graf on 22 grand slam victories
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Dino55/angelique-kerber-stuns-serena-williams-to-clinch-australian-open-title

Justice League Action Coming to Cartoon Network with Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill

The previously-leaked poster showed several silhouettes of other heroes together.
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Louis C.K. surprises fans with new show Horace and Pete, co-starring Steve Buscemi

Louis C.K. fans might not know when to expect the next season of his FX show Louie, but the actor-comedian just surprised everyone with a brand new show released exclusively online. It's called H...
Read more: http://snapzu.com/b1ackbird/louis-ck-surprises-fans-with-new-show-horace-and-pete-co-starring-steve-buscemi

Coldplay - Hymn For The Weekend (Official video)

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TV Ratings: 'The X-Files' Return Outperforms 2002 Finale With DVR

Time-shifting also gives the episode broadcast's highest-rated post-NFL conference championship episode in over a decade.
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Tom Hanks Is America's Favorite Movie Star

According to a new poll, Tom Hanks is America's favorite movie star. Hanks, whose latest film "The Bridge of Spies" is up for six Oscars, topped a Harris Poll...
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New Yorker writer returns to high school English class — for a year

David Denby "embedded” in a tenth-grade English class to see what happened as a good teacher worked with 15-year-olds. He read everything the kids read and listened all year, interviewing kids along the way. Read an excerpt from his new book, "Lit Up."
Read more: http://snapzu.com/gladsdotter/new-yorker-writer-returns-to-high-school-english-class-for-a-year

The secret world of membership libraries

Before Andrew Carnegie, most libraries in America were subscription-based. As free public libraries sprouted up across the United States, membership libraries mostly died off, but 19 non-profit membership libraries still exist.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/grandtheftsoul/the-secret-world-of-membership-libraries

How Nigerian Romance Novelists Sneak Feminism Into Their Plots

Say you've run into a spot of trouble–some relationship issues, or family drama, or your friends are angry at you. Or maybe it's worse–you're in a discriminatory situation, or even a dangerous one. You need help from someone smart; someone who really gets it. Who do you turn to? If you're living in Kano, Nigeria, you'll probably do the opposite of what you'd do anywhere else. You'd pick up a romance novel.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/gladsdotter/how-nigerian-romance-novelists-sneak-feminism-into-their-plots

Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea?

The race to cultivate an international appetite for the next generation of world-class South Korean writers is under way.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/gladsdotter/can-a-big-government-push-bring-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-to-south-korea

STRAIGHT OUTTA OPTIONS (2016 Election Parody)

You just have to see it to believe it, it's kinda great.
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Astronautica "Los Angeles"

Astronautica will launch the Gemini LP on January 29, 2016 with Alpha Pup Records, piecing together 12 new tracks that bridge the gaps between sultry R&B, uptempo club rhythms and future electronica.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/imokruok/astronautica-los-angeles

Elizabeth Jane Howard: Hilary Mantel on the novelist she tells everyone to read

Elizabeth Jane Howard’s exquisite and understated novels have been overshadowed by her turbulent private life. But is the real reason why they are underestimated because they are books ‘about women, by a woman’?
Read more: http://snapzu.com/gladsdotter/elizabeth-jane-howard-hilary-mantel-on-the-novelist-she-tells-everyone-to-read

'Gilmore Girls' Revived at Netflix

Netflix and producers Warner Bros. Television on Friday confirmed that the streaming service is, indeed, reviving the beloved series. Set to return are stars Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Scott Patterson, Kelly Bishop, Sean Gunn and Keiko Agena. Original producers Amy Sherman-Palladino, Daniel Palladino and production company Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions are all on board for the revival.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/geoleo/gilmore-girls-revived-at-netflix

“I Don’t Teach Banjo Lessons Anymore…”

— 30 Years of Stage Chatter, Live with the Grateful Dead
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Missy Elliott - The Rain [Supa Dupa Fly]

Elliott's debut album, Supa Dupa Fly, was released in mid-1997; the success of its lead single "The Rain" led the album to be certified platinum.
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Black Death

How Africa Became Heavy Metal’s New Frontier
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The biggest scam in pay TV might soon come to an end, and we’ll all save money

Cable industry lobbyists who represent big names like Comcast and Time Warner Cable are furious right now, which obviously means Washington is cooking something up that stands to benefit consumers rather than help big cable line cable companies' pockets.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/zobo/the-biggest-scam-in-pay-tv-might-soon-come-to-an-end-and-well-all-save-money

A Fighter’s Hour of Need

Interviews reveal the events in the 60 minutes after a 2013 bout at Madison Square Garden that left Magomed Abdusalamov with severe brain damage. By Dan Barry.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/a-fighters-hour-of-need

Las Vegas Raiders? Stadium meeting set with casino honcho

Raiders add Vegas to their list of possible locations. By teasing LA, San Antonio, and now Vegas, the Raiders are forcing Oakland to step up with their stadium game or lose out. I think Oakland will call their bluff and the Raiders will move to a new stadium somewhere else.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/nebraska/las-vegas-raiders-stadium-meeting-set-with-casino-honcho

The 'Doctor' Who Implanted Goat Balls on Men and Tried to Become Governor of Kansas

Penny Lane’s Sundance standout 'NUTS!' is a formally inventive documentary that pieces together the outrageous story of huckster surgeon John Romulus Brinkley.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Dino55/the-doctor-who-implanted-goat-balls-on-men-and-tried-to-become-governor-of-kansas

Oscar-Winning Documentarian Laura Poitras Is Emerging—Carefully—Into the Spotlight

With a new solo art exhibition about mass surveillance, and a film about Julian Assange in the works, filmmaker and journalist Laura Poitras is emerging, ever so carefully, into the spotlight.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/imokruok/oscar-winning-documentarian-laura-poitras-is-emergingcarefullyinto-the-spotlight

Speed reading claims discredited by new report

Readers ‘should be wary of promises to increase speed with no cost to comprehension’, say researchers.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/gladsdotter/speed-reading-claims-discredited-by-new-report

Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner dies aged 74

Paul Kantner, a founding member and singer-guitarist of rock band Jefferson Airplane, dies aged 74.
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Here's looking at: Rottnest by Guy Grey-Smith

Guy Grey-Smith's painting showcases the insistent rhythms of the indigenous vegetation and the rolling, flowing movements that take our eye meandering across the landscape and back towards the horizon.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Dino55/heres-looking-at-rottnest-by-guy-grey-smith

‘Blooks: The Art of Books That Aren’t’ Explores the World of Fake Books

Mindell Dubansky’s romance with fake books began nearly two decades ago at a Manhattan flea market, where she picked up a small volume carved from a piece of coal and bearing the name of a young man who had died in a mining accident in 1897. Sensing an unexplored territory, Ms. Dubansky set out to map the contours of the world of fake books, eventually amassing about 600 made from stone, wax, straw, wood, soap, plastic, glass and other materials. She even coined a term for them: “blooks."
Read more: http://snapzu.com/gladsdotter/blooks-the-art-of-books-that-arent-explores-the-world-of-fake-books

Rihanna's new album ANTI is available now

After years of rampant speculation and false starts, Rihanna's long-awaited eighth studio album ANTI is available now. It's the Bajan pop star's first LP since 2012's Unapologetic, and it's following on the heels of "Work," the Drake-featuring single she released earlier today. A January 26th report from Billboard suggested the album would be released as a surprise some time before Friday, January 29th, about a month before Rihanna's ANTI World Tour...
Read more: http://snapzu.com/sauce/rihannas-new-album-anti-is-available-now

How To Build A Starship – And Why We Should Start Thinking About It Now

With a growing number of Earth-like exoplanets discovered in recent years, it is becoming increasingly frustrating that we can’t visit them. After all, our knowledge of the planets in our own solar system would be pretty limited if it weren’t for the space probes we’d sent to explore them.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/kxh/how-to-build-a-starship-and-why-we-should-start-thinking-about-it-now

Devastating Djokovic leaves Rod Laver Arena crowd cold

Novak Djokovic's business-like brilliance overcomes Melbourne Park favourite Roger Federer to seal place in Australian Open final.
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Are the best days of the U.S. economy over?

If you add up all of the innovations made from the late 1800s up to 1970, there's been no comparable stretch of economic growth, before or since, says economist Robert Gordon. According to his new book, "The Rise and Fall of American Growth," slower progress is just the new normal. But in our current computer age, not everyone buys that idea. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/rti9/are-the-best-days-of-the-us-economy-over

Hip-Hop is political again. Here's why.

If you compare today's hip hop to 1995, you might notice some similarities.
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Can't Buy A Ticket To That Concert You Want To See? Blame Bots

A report from New York's attorney general points to abusive practices in the market for live-event tickets on sites such as StubHub. Computer programs snap up seats faster than humans can.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/FivesandSevens/cant-buy-a-ticket-to-that-concert-you-want-to-see-blame-bots

Inside David Bowie's Final Years

How Bowie stepped away – and came roaring back
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Dennis Wideman cross checks linesman Don Henderson

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42 Newly Discovered Photos from 'The Last Waltz'

Long-lost images of one of history's greatest concerts, featuring The Band, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Ringo Starr, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton and more familiar faces from the legendary Martin Scorsese documentary. Read the full story at sfchronicle.com. All photos by Gary Fong.
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Historical Statue Becomes Darth Vader When it Snows

After a 2015 snowfall, the people of Wejherowo, Poland, were shocked to see that one of their statues had transformed into a tribute to Star Wars villain extraordinaire Darth Vader.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/spaceghoti/historical-statue-becomes-darth-vader-when-it-snows

Fairytales much older than previously thought, say researchers

Fairy stories such as Beauty and the Beast and Rumpelstiltskin can be traced back thousands of years to prehistoric times, with one tale originating from the bronze age, academics have revealed. Using techniques normally employed by biologists, they studied common links between 275 Indo-European fairy tales from around the world and found some have roots that are far older than previously known, and “long before the emergence of the literary record”.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/canuck/fairytales-much-older-than-previously-thought-say-researchers

Robert Greene, the First Bohemian

Known for his debauched lifestyle, his flirtations with criminality, and the sheer volume of his literary output, the Elizabethan writer Robert Greene was a fascinating figure. Ed Simon explores the literary merits and bohemian traits of the man who penned the earliest known, and far from flattering, reference to Shakespeare as a playwright.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/gladsdotter/robert-greene-the-first-bohemian