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NEW YORK CITY: New Anti-Airbnb Ad

A group called Share Better has taken their New York City campaign against Airbnb to television in recent weeks, with the below spot airing today on CNN. From their about page: We are a group of New York City friends, neighbors, community activists and elected officials of this great city who have a unique perspective on the so-called “sharing economy” …

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FLORIDA: Same-Sex Marriage Plaintiffs Lead Key West Fantasy Fest Parade

Via press release: Two fighters for the Florida Keys’ same-sex marriage equality led Saturday night’s lavish Fantasy Fest Parade in Key West, capping 10 days of masking and costuming events in the festival that ended Sunday. Parade grand marshals Aaron Huntsman and William Lee Jones won a landmark court ruling overturning Florida’s statewide same-sex marriage ban for Florida Keys residents. …

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OK Go – I Won’t Let You Down

Via the Telegraph: OK Go have released their latest ambitious music video and their second to be taken from their forthcoming album Hungry Ghosts. Fans will be glad to know that the band perform another dance routine. But it is one rather more large-scale than the treadmill dance routine they performed for their 2006 Grammy-winning video for Here It Goes …

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #126

Clip recap: No one celebrates Halloween like Alfred Hitchcock, especially with his masterpiece of the macabre PSYCHO (1960). Brilliantly shot, edited and with a classic score by Bernard Herrmann, Anthony Perkins in the role of his career brings to iconic life a lonely motel clerk named Norman Bates. With solid support from Vera Miles, John Gavin, John McIntire, Patricia Hitchcock …

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Sao Paulo Is Almost Out Of Water

The world’s third-most populous city may be out of water in just a couple of weeks. São Paulo, a Brazilian megacity of 20 million people, is suffering its worst drought in at least 80 years, with key reservoirs that supply the city dried up after an unusually dry year. One of the causes of the crisis may be more than …

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