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10 Things WAY Worse Than Miss Utah's Pageant Answer
A lot has been made about the less-than-eloquent answer Marissa Powell, aka Miss Utah, gave to her question at this weekend's Miss USA pageant, but why? Who among us hasn't said something either artless or downright stupid when in a stressful situation? Besides, according to our count, there are at least 10 worse...
huffingtonpost.com (5 hours ago)
The NSA has us snared in its trap – and there's no way out
Watching William Hague doing his avuncular routine in the Commons on Monday, I was reminded of the way establishment figures in the 1950s used to reassure hoi polloi that they had nothing to worry about. Everything was in order. The Right Chaps were in charge. Citizens who had done nothing wrong, declared Uncle...
guardian.co.uk (2 days ago)
Jane Buckingham: Growing Vodka Trees and Other Surprising Things Your Teen Might Be Doing
Next time you go to water your garden, you may notice a new exotic plant -- The Vodka Tree. Well, to be more specific it is unlikely you'll actually grow an actual tree, but given the hijinks of resourceful teens today, you may find yourself a veritable bouquet of bottles. Read on to find out more about this, and...
huffingtonpost.com (3 days ago)
Admission – review
Fans of Tina Fey and 30 Rock will naturally be willing her latest movie to succeed – but, just as naturally, they will see how its screenplay is bafflingly inferior to even the least satisfactory episode of their favourite TV show. Admission is directed by Paul Weitz and adapted from a novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz;...
guardian.co.uk (4 days ago)
Photography Is Even More Satisfying When You Build Your Own Camera
If there's one thing that's keeping traditional analog film still alive, it's Lomography's relentless pursuit to keep the medium alive with unique cameras that always seem to bring a new approach to film photography. And this time around it's introducing the Konstruktor: a $35 build-it-yourself plastic camera that...
gizmodo.com (4 days ago)
Lego faces getting angrier, study finds
The number of happy faces on Lego toy mini-figures is decreasing and the number of angry faces is increasing, a robot expert at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand has discovered Dr Christoph Bartneck – who studied all 6,000 Lego mini-figures – said his findings could give rise to concern about he frowning...
guardian.co.uk (5 days ago)
Rick Edwards on style: unisex clothes
The other night I went to a dinner party, because that's what people my age are supposed to do. My friend Yemisi, a girl that I like because she looks uncannily similar to Lionel Richie, pitched up late (poor form) wearing an identical jacket to me (very poor form). And even though I was there first, wearing the...
guardian.co.uk (8 days ago)
How to cook with ... chicken
Chicken and avocadoGood together, if a little blandly healthy, like those smug couples you see out jogging. Give the chicken a smoke and things start to look up. Or throw in some toasted pinenuts and a handful of raisins, toss through some leaves and dress with something sharp. Chicken and bell pepperOne of the...
guardian.co.uk (9 days ago)
ARTINFO: International Art English: The Joke That Forgot It Was Funny
"International Art English" is back. The essay of the same name, penned by David Levine and Alix Rule and published in the online journal Triple Canopy one year ago, touched off a minor furor with its attempt to prove scientifically that the art world was a hive of pompous windbags -- that is, that the official...
huffingtonpost.com (10 days ago)
Movie review: Dark comedy ‘Sightseers’ more off-putting than funny
“Sightseers” is a dark comedy from Britain that’s so intent on being dark that it sometimes neglects to be a comedy. Alice Lowe and Steve Oram (who co-wrote the film) star as Tina and Chris, who have been dating a short while and are taking their first vacation together, a caravan road trip through the sights of...
sltrib.com (11 days ago)
Jessie Kahnweiler: My God Plays Hard To Get
"Jessie! Turn around so I can film you throwing up!" Addie, my Israeli cinematographer, barked as tear gas engulfed us signaling the protest had officially begun. I turned toward the camera and finished hacking up the remaining smoke from my lungs before signaling a cut. The scene was over. I was ready to go home....
huffingtonpost.com (11 days ago)
Kelly Kleiman: LaBute and Moliere Occupy Chicago Theater
It's impossible to know why a Chicago theater season features concentrated attention on certain playwrights. But a pair of Neil LaBute plays and a cluster of Molieres (current and imminent) have given me an idea. David Prete's fine production of LaBute's Fat Pig, one of the three shows in Steppenwolf's Next Up...
huffingtonpost.com (14 days ago)
Miley Cyrus hits back at split rumours by wearing her engagement ring from Liam Hemsworth
After rumours they'd split, Miley's wearing a smug smile and her massive diamond ring - we think she's trying to tell us something ...
mirror.co.uk (15 days ago)
Why are some people slow to appreciate the talents of Jonathan Trott? | Barney Ronay
It has been a week to worry, just a bit, about England's top order as the fall-out from the Great Slowness Incident during the victorious Headingley Test grudgingly recedes. This is something of a shame, if only because opening batsmen in particular deserve a little more slack. It is one of the more distinct and...
guardian.co.uk (17 days ago)
Populaire – review
This sugary French romcom of secretarial romance in the 1950s is all too obviously being sold on the Mad Men ticket, with smart suits, cute dresses and lots of smoking – but entirely without that famous TV show's acid cynicism and anxiety. The manager is asked if he might quit smoking in the office and in reply...
guardian.co.uk (18 days ago)
Ken Braun: Justin Amash's smug votes are confusing blemishes on his record
Amash's “present” vote in an effort to help the Keystone XL pipeline is a vote against a $20 billion annual jolt for the economy.
mlive.com (19 days ago)
Britain's Got Talent: A smug Simon Cowell brands Bruce Forsyth 'Mr Grumpy' as music mogul revels...
Cowell seemed to believe he had proved why children SHOULD be allowed on his shows after some talented youngsters returned to impress the four judges.
dailymail.co.uk (21 days ago)
Whether women 'lean in' or 'lean out', jobs have to change for us to succeed | Stacy Mason
Exactly 20 years ago this month, I leaned in – big time. I was 29, and during my first maternity leave I was promoted to become the editor of Roll Call, the political newspaper that covers Congress. I spent three years in that job and another seven in various management positions in journalism and PR, both in...
guardian.co.uk (21 days ago)
Ad break: Peugeot's Wacky Races, Heineken add some Irish humour
In order to demonstrate the potency of stock footage, Brazilian agency Almap BBDO has managed to construct a story from a huge series of disconnected pieces of footage sourced from Getty's library. The resulting 85 seconds is as moving as it is mesmerising and it brilliantly illustrates the usefulness of the...
guardian.co.uk (25 days ago)
SIMON HEFFER: The ugly truth is a smug Tory elite has sneered at the party faithful for decades
Sadly, regardless of the alleged 'swivel-eyed loons' remark, the truth is that Mr Cameron is surrounded by people who sneer at the morals and values of his party’s grassroots supporters, writes SIMON HEFFER.
dailymail.co.uk (27 days ago)
Cannes 2013: A Castle in Italy (Un Chateau en Italie) – first look review
This is turning out to be a tricky Cannes competition for French film-makers. François Ozon's Jeune et Jolie was interestingly made, but Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian was a baffling, cumbersome bore. And now performer-turned-director Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi has given us what may well...
guardian.co.uk (27 days ago)
Anne Addison: Save a Mother's Life - Talk About Maternal Death And Near-Miss in the USA
When I almost died in childbirth, I was blissfully unaware. I was captivated by the lights and sounds of the ambulance and said to the EMT, "Code Blue...that's serious, isn't it?!" It never crossed my mind that I might die, that two women, women like me, die from pregnancy-related complications every day in the US....
huffingtonpost.com (28 days ago)
Premier League 2012-13 review: pundit of the season | Paul Doyle
Welcome to guardian.co.uk's review of the 2012-13 Premier League season. Now that the campaign has ended we would like you to help us choose your favourite goal, the best signing and the best manager, as well as eight other categories. We have nominated some contenders, but this is just to get the discussion going:...
guardian.co.uk (28 days ago)
Chaffetz and the I-word
Re “Chaffetz: Obama impeachment ‘possible’ over Benghazi attack” (Tribune, May 14): I accept Rep. Jason Chattetz’s blowhard grandstanding on almost every issue. His smug pronouncements don’t help solve problems, but they appeal to his political base. They add a lot more heat than light. That’s politics. But...
sltrib.com (29 days ago)
Photography: top tips for storing and viewing your images
Apart from duds, keep your frames in safe, long-term storage: you never know when one might be useful, or more meaningful, in the future. Then make a tight edit of them and keep that in a more accessible place. This could be a tablet computer: easy to download to, edit on and great for showing your images. Printing...
guardian.co.uk (29 days ago)
Pam Hogg: this much I know
I never felt I had my mother's love but it probably just seemed that way because my father showed it so eagerly. My earliest memory is of clinging to her legs and asking what I'd done wrong. I must have been about two years old. Glasgow was a great place to grow up – you couldn't be smug about anything, as you...
guardian.co.uk (30 days ago)
This column will change your life: it's good to tut
Serial killers are bad, I know, but I'm fairly sure there's no more outrageous example of human depravity than people who board aeroplanes before their row number's been announced. No, hang on: the airline staff who let them get away with it are worse. Meanwhile, we pathetic rule-followers stand there tutting and...
guardian.co.uk (30 days ago)
Shawn Amos: The Content Brief: TV Goes Multiplatform at the Upfronts [WATCH]
Can broadcasters convince advertisers to keep paying to reach a smaller, fragmented audience? At the television upfront presentations this week, networks tried to prove they can catch up to consumer habits and deliver viewers, who have more choices than ever for video content. ABC, TBS and TNT announced they'll...
huffingtonpost.com (1 month ago)
Six ways the GOP could screw up the Obama administration's scandals | Ana Marie Cox
There's something already dangerously smug about the way that the Republican Party – and the media, for that matter – have described the past two weeks as the White House's "worst weeks ever". There have been some exceedingly bad weeks over the past five years, including the one in April that began with the Boston...
guardian.co.uk (1 month ago)
Strauss-Kahn scandal inspires Ferrara movie on disgraced IMF chief
The first images from a feature film inspired by the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal and directed by the American Abel Ferrara, have been released, two years after the former head of the IMF was arrested in New York over the alleged attempted rape of a hotel worker. The trailer for Welcome to New York is a frenzied...
guardian.co.uk (1 month and 1 day ago)
