Linda Holmes

In Slight Defense Of Miss Utah USA, A Little Bit, With Reservations

Linda Holmes — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:36:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx7TE7fCkrk

When Your Data Is Your Currency, What Does Your Privacy Cost?

Linda Holmes — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 11:03:00 +0000

There was considerable mouth-dropping from publications such as The New York Times at initial reports this week that NSA programs are gathering both telephone records and information gleaned from large tech companies like Google and Microsoft.

Comikaze: Not Just The Other Comic Convention

Linda Holmes — Tue, 28 May 2013 21:15:00 +0000

You may be familiar with the San Diego Comic-Con, a constantly expanding convention for fans that started as a niche event for comic-book nerds and is now a sprawling pop-culture event.

You may not be familiar with Comikaze. The brainchild of Regina Carpinelli, a fan who was unhappy with the cost, ticket scarcity, and changing focus of Comic-Con, Comikaze is a smaller festival that costs $30 for the weekend, rather than Comic-Con's $150 four-day passes.

Why Angelina Jolie's Op-Ed Matters

Linda Holmes — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:28:00 +0000

Pop culture does not mean celebrity culture; I have perhaps said this more often than anyone you're going to meet. Who dates, who gets a divorce, who has a tantrum, who has surreptitious photos snapped of him by mangy, grim opportunists — these things are not culture of any kind, popular or otherwise, unless there is something else at stake. They are curiosities, and given that we are curious creatures, their pull is not surprising, nor is it new, nor was it invented by the internet, or television, or Americans.

Boston's Art Museums Offer Free Admission To Provide A 'Place Of Respite'

Linda Holmes — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:29:00 +0000

UPDATE, 4:08 p.m.: In addition to the institutions mentioned below, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has announced that admission will be free on Wednesday, April 17.

At least two art museums in Boston, the Museum Of Fine Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Art, have announced that admission on Tuesday will be free as a service to a city still dealing with the trauma of the explosions Monday at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.