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  Shona Sanzgiri

  

  It’s Time to Stop Writing ‘I Hope You’re Well’ in Emails

  New York Magazine - Dayna Evans

  There comes a time in every person’s life when she must stare directly into the abyss and, without thinking, write the words “I hope you’re well.” …

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  Shona Sanzgiri

  

  John Malkovich Thinks You Should Be Less Ambitious

  GQ - Clay Skipper

  Malkovich—that guy's got to be a machine, right? Nearly 100 films! The latest: this month's BP-oil-spill thriller Deepwater Horizon. He's a 40-year member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and is now directing the play Good Canary in London. He's even got a fashion line! So you might be surprised …

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  Shona Sanzgiri

  

  Same old, same old. How the hipster aesthetic is taking over the world

  The Guardian - Kyle Chayka

  Industrial furniture, stripped floors and Edison bulbs: why must we aspire to such bland monotony? Go to Shoreditch Grind, near a roundabout in the middle of London’s hipster district. It’s a coffee shop with rough-hewn wooden tables, plentiful sunlight from wide windows, and austere pendant …

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  Shona Sanzgiri

  

  Nobody talks about the fact that Taylor Swift is Jewish. Here’s why it matters.

  Medium - Ned Resnikoff

  Somehow, a Taylor Swift photo has become one of social media’s great red flags, alongside the Twitter egg and the anime avatar. If you see a Twitter …

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  Shona Sanzgiri

  Aug 22, 2016
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  Shona Sanzgiri

  

  How San Francisco’s hippy explosion shaped the modern world

  The Guardian - Alex Needham

  You Say You Want a Revolution, the V&A’s new exhibition, explores the birth of late-1960s counterculture that helped spawn Silicon Valley. Alex Needham takes a tour of where it all began, guided by former hippies and subversive visionaries On 12 July 1967, Florida newspaper the St Petersburg Times …