‘Heil Trump’ and an anti-gay slur were scrawled on an Indiana church right after Trump’s election. The investigation led to an unlikely suspect — and the discovery of a hate crime hoax.

A well-written news story, covering a sensitive subject. The graffiti in rural Indiana became a national sensation, part of a string of high-profile hate crime reports in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory. Late-night television host Stephen Colbert featured an image of one of the tagged walls during a monologue. The church’s priest, the Rev.…

Narrating “A Christmas Carol” for WAOB Audio Theatre. (The four episodes will be released in the days leading up to Christmas.)

Similar:I Love Books: A Campus Library EvolvesI love books. I love smelling them, t…AcademiaVersu's Epilogue: How an Interactive Fiction Pioneer's 15 Year Project Ended Up in Limbo a…However there’s a particularly sad tale …BusinessOur family has seen David Whalen in the persona of Sherlock in five or six different shows…Our family has seen David Whalen…

“This Is Probably Going to Kill Us:” How First ‘Star Trek’ Movie Avoided Disaster

This article left out someone important! Reassembling the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise (Shatner as Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Spock, DeForest Kelley as McCoy, George Takei as Sulu, Nichelle Nichols as Uhura and Walter Koenig as Chekov) years after the end of its five-year mission — with added, pivotal Starfleet characters Decker (Stephen Collins) and Ilia…

A full minute standing ovation after that rousing final “Alleluia.” Thrilling!

Similar:Random gauge design, for background details in a fantasy #steampunk project. #blender3d #b… AestheticsTime Squared (ST:TNG Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 13)Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generatio…PersonalLook how the box leads your eye down to the car, then the two signs lead your eye up to th…PersonalMy mother-in-law invited me to try out the 60- year-old…

This class has been everything that I expect it would be and I cannot believe that we are so close to its end.

Some days are slogs. Some weeks are slogs. Some weeks are slogs that end with a wonderfully heartening comment from a student. I will not deny that I was a little worried about reading Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet as I know that they are two of Shakespeare’s most famous plays and I feared that…

How Artists on Twitter Tricked Spammy T-Shirt Stores Into Admitting Their Automated Art Theft

Yesterday, an artist on Twitter named Nana ran an experiment to test a theory. Their suspicion was that bots were actively looking on Twitter for phrases like “I want this on a shirt” or “This needs to be a t-shirt,” automatically scraping the quoted images, and instantly selling them without permission as print-on-demand t-shirts. Dozens of…

My Freshman Comp Student Didn’t Recognize the Term ‘Word Processor’

Most of my students use MS-Word, but maybe a third use Google Docs (that’s a big increase lately) and a handful (but a bigger handful) use Pages. Today during a writing conference, a freshman comp student blinked in confusion when I asked her to “take me to your word processor.” I tried again. “Open up…

The Most Unexpected Workplace Trend Coming in 2020: the Return of the Liberal Arts Major

On LinkedIn each year author Dan Schawbel writes a list of workplace trends to watch for in the coming year. This time around Schawbel makes this prediction about degrees in subjects like literature, philosophy and history: “AI will automate technical skills and drive the demand for soft skills like creativity, communication and empathy. While there’s been such a…

Shakespeare's Will

Similar:What a great time everyone had at the "Cabbies."CultureEnjoying live theater.The Illustrious Invalid. @kinetictheatre_pghPersonalBreakfast Battle from "The Miracle Worker" (Pamela Lee as Annie Sullivan and Carolyn Jerz …Update: Here’s a clip of the whole break…CultureAnonymous comment cards from student journalists at the end of the second week. These folks are amazing! It’s such a…Academia"Shakespeare in…

The Dauphin (ST:TNG Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 10)

A pretty 16yo destined to bring peace to a war-torn planet falls for Wesley, but 1) her governess disapproves and 2) well… Wesley. The puppy-love story is cringe-worthily wholesome (influenced by the long dark adorable shadow of “The Wonder Years”), but still enjoyable.

Last day filming for “The First Night of Summer”

Similar:New Renaissance Theatre Company's The Merry Wives of Windsor (in rep with The Tempest…PersonalA very happy geekling playing Dungeons and Dragons on her one free evening. #llapGames#4C18 snack still life.PersonalIn June 2021 I roughed out the proportions and deck heights for the flagship of the #steam…AestheticsAfter you finish your brass-polishing shift, join me at the…

That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent It

Professional disinformation isn’t spread by the account you disagree with — quite the opposite. Effective disinformation is embedded in an account you agree with.

Big Calculator: How Texas Instruments Monopolized Math Class

My math education predated the widespread use of graphing calculators. I remember writing my own BASIC programs to graph simple functions, but that was in a summer school programming class during middle school, not part of my high school curriculum. I’m amazed these old calculators cost this much. Bulky and black, with large, colorful push…

Elsa at noon. College “Intro to Chemistry” in the afternoon. Amy March at night.

Similar:Support the arts in your community! I’m here for the daughter and the rest of the cast. @j…Support the arts in your community! I’m …CultureAnd to think… I had just decided to retire this meme because the last time I used in cla…AcademiaI am not in the splash zone but still definitely out of my…

Greensburg Holiday Parade

Similar:Family, I Hear You. I Love You. Go Away. This Weekend, I'm Marking Papers.No, I don’t want to see the new jacket y…AcademiaEvery few years, I Google the name of the kid who saw "The Empire Strikes Back" the night …HistoryHeadphones, Croutons and RhetoricME (with crouton tongs in one hand and s…CultureI really enjoyed powering…

Little Women (the daughter plays Amy, the youngest sister)

Similar:Such A Good Feeling: The Affectionate Documentary 'Won't You Be My Neighbor?'My son and I saw “Won’t You Be Ny Neighb…CultureMy crazy Friday night involved tweaking the graphic for an #MLAstyle instructional web pag…AcademiaInterior Detail of Steampunk Convertible Gazebo Spent much of Tuesday wrestling with co…AestheticsAscending the path to High Hrothgar? No, just the snow-covered…

Point Park cancels ‘The Adding Machine: The Musical’ after student objections to offensive content

Citing student objections to offensive content, Point Park University canceled its production of The Adding Machine: The Musical, which was scheduled to run Dec 6-15. The PPU Globe reports that during an emotional “town hall” meeting that included the cast and crew and more than enough members of the public to fill the Highmark Theater,…

Little Women (Thurs-Sun)

Similar:Prepare to lower the personnel deployment gondola from the forward eployment bay, two deck… AestheticsSon took out trash w/o being asked; daughter wore papercraft tophat to grocery store. Life…I took my daughter to an Alice-in-Wonder…ArtI Find Myself in Another Showhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=517BhV1j0…Drama#PPTPlaytime Tartuffe @thepublicpgh (Looking forward to Part 2 of this live videoconferenc…CultureSo glad to be attending…

Celebration of Writing Fall 2019

Similar:Annie 2012 with Annie 2017. Annie 2012 with her Warbucks. "Together at last. Together …PersonalMore modular, swappable building components. I’ve got to work on the sides of these mid-si…More modular, swappable building compone…AestheticsApple Hill Playhouse is closing, leaving theater group seeking new homeConfiguring socially distanced seating a…BusinessStandardized Test Scores Don't Really Measure LearningThere are ways…

Before and after making a meme of myself as Oberon, King of the Faeries

Similar:The Most Disastrous Typos In Western History The Most Disastrous Typos In Western H…BooksThe First Duty (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 5, Episode 19) Cadet Wesley's Academy Crisi…Rewatching ST:TNG The Enterprise is…Empathy#Blender3D rendition of the bridge of the æthership that featured in the musical #steampun…PersonalHere’s How the Pandemic Finally EndsThis is the end of the coronavirus…