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Free Thing of the Week: Netlabel Day 2016 Compilation
This week we take you the the Free Music Archive and a celebration of netlabels from 2016.
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How Democracy Vouchers Could Combat Big Money in Politics
Across the USA, voters are pushing for public-matching systems to replace the influence of wealthy bankrollers in elections. Lynsi Burton covers the waterfront.
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The man who gave himself away
How discovering an equation for altruism cost George Price everything. Michael Regnier writes.
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FCC Chairman Wheeler Proposes Broadband Privacy Upgrade For America
The FCC is proposing to return control over your personal data back to you, much to the chagrin of big cable companies. Help them decide. Shiva Stella writes.
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Sunday Comics
I like people there, the ones who can’t stand. I see smoke signals coming from them, they say “we’re all out of Sunday Comics.”
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Free Thing of the Week: Priya’s Mirror
To comics we go for this week’s Free Thing. A socially astute comic that merges Hindu mythology and feminism in its tale of acid-attack survivors: Priya’s Mirror.
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Finding Noelle: An Ode to Marlin
Omar Willey visits the Pocket Theater for Price Arts’ latest dance and finds it not so weird at all.
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Beyond a Joyful Noise, a Lingering Doubt
Our publisher finds time to write, and lays out some further thoughts on religion in theater inspired by Taproot’s A Joyful Noise.
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The Cable and Hollywood Endgame to Kill Set-Top Box Competition
You may be asking yourself how the Federal Communications Commission’s proposal to eliminate the outrageous cable set-top box monopoly ripping off millions of consumers could be stopped. You may even be asking yourself this as you review your latest burgeoning cable bill. Welcome to the…
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Sunday Comics
This week in Sunday Comics, the punchline in Shoe does not revolve around a pun for the first time in a decade.