by James Furbush on October 25, 2012 · 0 comments
The Atlantic celebrates a group of people risking their reputations, fortunes, and lives in pursuit of big ideas. It includes a wide-range of people, including: Frank Ocean, Lena Dunham, Newark mayor Cory Booker, Rhode Island treasurer Gina Raimondo, and Taylor Wilson, a wunderkind nuclear physicist who skipped college and wants to make fusion energy a [...]
by James Furbush on October 11, 2012 · 1 comment
The AV Club compiled a list of the 50 best films of the 1990s, a decade that stacks up well against any decade in movie history. Here’s part one, part two, and part three. I’ve seen 40 out of 50 and might quibble with the positioning of some movies on the list, but overall, it’s a solid group [...]
by James Furbush on October 4, 2012 · 1 comment
Los Angeles, Denver, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and San Francisco, in that order. If the intention was to troll beer drinkers, then well-played GQ. If the intention was to lose any and all credibility with beer drinkers than also well-played. No Portland, no Seattle, no San Diego, no Asheville, no Milwaukee. I would even hazard to say [...]
by James Furbush on August 21, 2012 · 0 comments
State Bird Provisions in San Francisco takes the crown in Bon Appetit’s list of 2012′s best new restaurants in America, but one thing that stands out from the ten restaurants featured is that most of them are focused on small quirky spaces, making food fun, and adventurous cooking using local ingredients. It’s hard to sum [...]
by James Furbush on August 8, 2012 · 0 comments
NPR polled more than 75,000 readers to cull a list of the 100 best-ever teen novels. Just glancing through the list, most of the usual suspects — Harry Potter series, Hunger Games trilogy, The Hobbit, et al. — are all represented. One thing that did catch my notice was the inclusion of author John Green [...]
by James Furbush on August 7, 2012 · 0 comments
The magazine compiled a list of the 101 best places to eat with the input from some of the world’s best (and most famous) chefs. The list is broken down by geography and many, if not most, of the restaurants are fine dining. Which is a shame, but I suppose to be expected. The restaurants [...]
by James Furbush on August 2, 2012 · 0 comments
Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo has overthrown Citizen Kane as the greatest film of all time, according to British magazine Sight & Sound. Citizen Kane had previously held the top spot since 1962. While most polls like this are typically irrelevant, Browbeat notes: The Sight & Sound poll was compiled from the top-ten lists of 846 critics, programmers, academics and other movie-lovers, who together nominated more than 2,000 [...]
by James Furbush on July 26, 2012 · 0 comments
Typically, I find lists like this rather pointless. However, Vulture has created its list so users can manipulate the criteria — box office, Oscars, likability, studio value, critics’ value, tabloid value, magazine covers, etc. — to discover who the most valuable movies stars would be depending on their unique preferences. It’s a neat feature and [...]
by James Furbush on July 11, 2012 · 0 comments
Contrary to popular belief, if you read all the books on Carl Sagan’s 1954 reading list you still won’t be as smart as Carl Sagan. This actually pairs pretty nicely with Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s reading list from 2011.
by James Furbush on July 5, 2012 · 0 comments
Entertainment Weekly has compiled a list of the “50 Greatest Movies You’ve Never Seen.” The list only spans the past two decades, which is unfortunate. Still, it’s a good list. For some reason, it’s not available online, as far as I can tell. Thankfully, someone scanned the magazine and put it online. Here’s the full [...]
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