Could This Be the Year Movies Stopped Mattering?

There are great films out there, and people who want to see them. But in a year of endless pop-cultural distractions, movies have never felt less important.
Read more: http://www.wired.com/2016/08/do-movies-still-matter-2016/?source=Snapzu

U.S. Open Pressure Points: No. 1 seed Serena Williams and her race against time

Approaching 35 and with a new challenger to her throne, can the all-time great do it again?
Read more: http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2016/08/serena-williams-2016-us-open-angelique-kerber-steffi-graf-22-grand-slam-titles/60188/?source=Snapzu

Caleb Carr Lives in a Very Dark Place

In 1960, the writer and military historian Caleb Carr was five years old and living with his family in a small house on Horatio Street in Greenwich Village. His journalist father Lucien Carr would have loud, wild parties with the writers Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, and the poet Allen Ginsberg, the literary trio at the heart of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. The drunken parties would often end in screaming and fighting, with furniture breaking. “I would sit at the top of the stairs, listening,” said Caleb Carr, from his home in upstate New York, “trying to figure it out. What the hell was going on? It never made any sense.”
Read more: http://lithub.com/caleb-carr-lives-in-a-very-dark-place/?source=Snapzu

10 street art movies.

Here are the ten most fascinating documentaries and fictional street art movies that tell stories of the global movement and its impact on urban culture.
Read more: http://www.widewalls.ch/10-street-art-movies/?source=Snapzu

Belgians are hunting books, instead of Pokemon

Inspired by the success of Pokemon Go, a Belgian primary school headmaster has developed an online game for people to search for books instead of cartoon monsters, attracting tens of thousands of players in weeks.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-belgium-books-pokemon-idUSKCN1110RG?source=Snapzu

How long can we expect the Pokémon Go craze to last?

Data suggests game could retain tens of millions of players for a long while.
Read more: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/08/how-long-can-we-expect-the-pokemon-go-craze-to-last/?source=Snapzu

Baseball needs a USA Dream Team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

The next Games provides baseball a rare opportunity to sell itself on the world stage – and it needs its best players to showcase the sport.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2016/aug/25/baseball-olympic-games-2020-tokyo-mlb-team-selection?source=Snapzu