Facebook's Questionable Policy on Violent Content Toward Women

Facebook's Questionable Policy on Violent Content Toward Women

Facebook?s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities offers numerous guidelines regarding appropriate speech and user safety. But that hasn?t stopped countless users on the social media site from making comments, posting images and starting pages that promote the rape and abuse of women. And in many cases, it doesn?t mean that Facebook has any intention of stopping them either.

The Animated GIF: Still Looping After All These Years

The Animated GIF: Still Looping After All These Years

A look back at the history of the animated GIF -- and some of the best and most hilarious examples the internet has to offer.

'Breaking Bad' Fan Gives Lifelike Drawings to Show's Stars (Photos)

'Breaking Bad' Fan Gives Lifelike Drawings to Show's Stars (Photos)

Aaron Paul, Dean Norris and others have taken pictures of themselves with Rick Fortson's stirring portraits.

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Rice Rivalry: Japanese Onigiri Competition This Weekend

Rice Rivalry: Japanese Onigiri Competition This Weekend

 

This Sunday, the Japanese American National Museum will host their annual New Years celebration with a free day of Japanese premium rice tasting, education, and onigiri making with Japanese food writer and home cooking teacher, Sonoko Sakai. 

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Southern California Was Very Popular On Instagram This Year

Southern California Was Very Popular On Instagram This Year

     

Instagram compiled a list of the places that people are most likely to snap a shot using the app. Apparently, Instagram is mad popular in Thailand and nabbed the top two spots, but Southern California had a strong showing with five of the top ten sites. 

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How Cougar Town evolved from smarm to heart

10 episodes that show how Cougar Town evolved from smarm to heart

With so many new series popping up on streaming services and DVD every day, it gets harder and harder to keep up with new shows, much less the all-time classics. With TV Club 10, we point you toward the 10 episodes that best represent a TV series, classic or modern. If you watch those 10, you'll have a better idea of what that series was about, without having to watch the whole thing. These are not meant to be the 10 best episodes, but rather the 10 most representative episodes.

Television is littered with shows that depict epic events on vast scales. Presidential assassinations, zombie breakouts, and multigenerational gang warfare are certainly ways to create conflict, reveal character, and inspire loyal viewership. But there are also plenty of ways to do those things while staying small in scope. For instance, Cougar Town is decidedly not a show with large ...

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Dick Tracy

HomeVideo Review: Dick Tracy

Some movies define their times; some are merely born of them. In the right hands, the latter can be as inspired as the former. Warren Beatty had been trying to get a film version of Chester Gould’s comic strip Dick Tracy made since the ’70s, but chances are that any Dick Tracy he might’ve made in 1975 would’ve turned out very different from the one released in 1990. The version Beatty ended up directing is a movie very much of its era: a loud, cartoony summer blockbuster that probably wouldn’t have been possible without the success of the previous two summer’s smashes, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Batman. And yet Beatty’s Dick Tracy is no work-for-hire cash-in. It’s an accomplished stylistic exercise, reconsidering the pop culture of the ’30s through the perspective of the late 20th century. And, in retrospect, it’s a ...

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The Future Is Now: What We Imagined for 2013 — 10 Years Ago

The Future Is Now: What We Imagined for 2013 — 10 Years Ago

Ten years ago, we boldly declared that we'd be living with phones on our wrists, data-driven goggles on our eyes and gadgets that would safety-test our food for us. Turns out, we were remarkably prescient. We even got the iPhone right. A look at life in 2013, circa 2003.

The best graphic novels and art comics of 2012

The best graphic novels and art comics of 2012





The lines separating various comics niches have gotten fuzzier every year, as genre comics become more literary, literary comics incorporate more reportage and autobiography, and the highest-profile projects of any given season include the archiving and annotating of material that used to disappear into flea markets and quarter boxes. So the artier side of The A.V. Club’s 2012 best-comics list will be reducing to three the tangle of categories from years past: one category for fiction (original graphic novels, collections of formerly serialized material, short-story anthologies, and substantial chapters of ongoing stories), one for non-fiction (memoirs, histories, travelogues, journalism, and criticism), and one for archival collections (focusing on archival series that launched this year, rather than such essential ongoing series as Little Orphan Annie, Pogo, Floyd Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse newspaper strip, and The Carl Barks Library).

Top 10 Fiction

1. Chris Ware, Building Stories (Pantheon)

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Books: Best of: The best superhero and mainstream comics of 2012

The best superhero and mainstream comics of 2012





This past year, DC and Marvel underwent significant line-wide changes; Image Comics rose as the primary publisher for diverse, creator-owned content; superhero films continued to dominate the box office; and the industry saw a huge push for digital comics. The result was an incredibly eventful 2012, featuring new works by some of the most inspiring creators in the medium. Here are The A.V. Club’s picks for the top superhero and mainstream comic books of an extraordinary year.

10. All-Star Western (DC)


Relocating Jonah Hex to Gotham City gave All-Star Western a considerable sales boost, but two inspired partnerships have made this book one of DC’s best. Teaming artist Moritat with the Jonah Hex writing team of Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray was a genius move, as Moritat creates a dirty urban environment that is somehow even nastier than present-day Gotham. The second pairing is that of Jonah ...

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The Lost History and Unintended Consequences of the Chicken Nugget

The Lost History and Unintended Consequences of the Chicken Nugget

The chicken nugget appears to have been invented -- or at least, originally proposed -- by a Cornell professor 17 years before McDonald's had essentially the same idea.