Co-creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones dish on the Anthony Mackie-starring Season 5 premiere ‘Striking Vipers,’ which explores the intersection of porn and gaming.
On June 5, Netflix will debut the fifth season of its acclaimed dystopian series Black Mirror. And the first of its three episodes, titled “Striking Vipers,” boldly goes where no Black Mirror episode has gone before: the world of porn. Although, in true Black Mirror fashion, not in the way you’d think.
- The Daily Beast
Au plus près du raisin, la web-série documentaire en dix courts épisodes d'Arte est une galerie de portraits de vignerons anarchistes rythmée par des illustrations musicales signées Usé ou Flavien Berger.
Ils cultivent leurs vignes avec un engrais au guano de chauve-souris, font fermenter leur raisin en l’enterrant dans des grandes jarres en terre cuite, ou produisent leurs vins en communauté dans des caves troglodytiques : Punkovino, web-série d’Arte en dix épisodes de sept minutes, est une galerie de portraits de «mavericks» qui ne jurent que par le vin naturel. Dans des courts reportages enivrés, sans sulfites, la journaliste Tina Meyer part à la rencontre de ces vignerons «do-it-yourself», de la Géorgie à Majorque en passant par l’Anjou.
- Libération / Arte
The globetrotting chef, author, and TV host estimates that he's been away from home "about 250 days a year, for nearly the past decade," which makes him, among other things, one of the world's foremost experts in surviving the constant indignities of travel. Here, Bourdain proffers some wisdom on withstanding the tribulations of life on the road. —As told to Elizabeth Gunnison Dunn
- Esquire
La capitale de l'Argentine est souvent considérée comme le Paris de l'Amérique du Sud, avec ses maisons cossues, ses cafés et ses parcs. À l'image de la capitale française, Buenos Aires revendique aussi une vie culturelle riche et vibrante... Sept façons de profiter de cette culture, sans puiser trop creux dans le porte-monnaie.
La capitale portègne a peut-être des airs de Paris, mais dans Palermo, c'est Montréal qui vient à l'esprit. En effet, ce quartier branché abrite plusieurs oeuvres murales colorées, qui ne sont pas sans rappeler celles qui décorent les murs montréalais.
- La Presse
Catherine de Médicis, après avoir épousé le roi Henri II, a apporté dans sa dot du sucre. Au début de la Renaissance, la France qui s’ouvrait à l’Orient a introduit l’usage des épices dans la préparation des poissons et des viandes. Louis IX, grand amateur de légumes, a grandement contribué à intégrer la culture du potager dans l’élaboration des jardins à la française. Ce qui fait contraste avec le Moyen Âge, époque où les médecins recommandaient de consommer les fruits en compote ou en confiture sous prétexte que, frais, ceux-ci donnaient des ballonnements et des maux de ventre. À l’époque de Rabelais, on servait la viande sur des tranches de pain rancies. Et le vin était pris à l’extérieur de la table. Voilà (entre autres) ce que nous apprend À table ! Le repas français se raconte, appétissante exposition sur la gastronomie française qui occupe le musée Pointe-à-Callière jusqu’au 13 octobre.
- Le Devoir
After a series of heartbreaking losses, including much of my hearing, I felt totally disconnected from my body. Then I went out to eat.
waitress crawls along the massive wooden table, fishnets and impossibly short, black skirt moving rhythmically as she inches toward me. In her hand is a glass of cool, cloudy liquid, which she presses against my neck. I feel the soft down of my neck hairs rise and my skin prickle from the cold glass. She instructs me to smell the liquid, which is sharp and citrusy and pops in my nose. From here, she tilts my head back and presses the glass to my lips. The sweet, acidic tang of the drink rushes over my tongue and I taste lemon and ginger and something crisp, possibly apple. She has barely touched me, and yet, as each of my senses is brought glaringly—intimately—to attention, it feels as if this stranger and I have had sex. A kind of sex, at least.
- Vice
This photograph dating back to 1844 is the oldest photo displaying people drinking. Octavius Hill is present on the right of James Ballantine and Dr. George Bell. They were probably sharing a joke along with the drink when captured. Three ‘ale flutes’ (drinking glasses of the 19th century) and a beer bottle take center stage on the table!
- Layohn
A young bank teller is shot dead during a robbery. The robber flees in a stolen van and is chased down the motorway by a convoy of police cars. Careening through traffic, the robber runs several cars off the road and clips several more. Eventually, the robber pulls off the motorway and attempts to escape into the hills on foot, the police in hot pursuit. After several tense minutes, the robber pulls a gun on the cops and is promptly killed in a hail of gunfire. It is later revealed the robber is a career criminal with a history of violent crime stretching all the way back to high school.
Now tell me: Are you picturing a male or a female robber? If you look back at the last paragraph, you’ll notice that I didn’t actually specify the robber’s sex. Nonetheless, I’d be willing to bet that you were picturing a man. Don’t worry—you weren’t being sexist; you were simply playing the odds. Most men are not especially violent, but most people who are especially violent are men. And rare though they might be, men such as our fictitious robber are the extreme of a more general trend, namely that men are more violent than women, more in-your-face aggressive, and more prone to taking risks.
- Nautilus
What can hyperpolyglots teach the rest of us?
The word “hyperpolyglot” was coined two decades ago, by a British linguist, Richard Hudson, who was launching an Internet search for the world’s greatest language learner. But the phenomenon and its mystique are ancient. In Acts 2 of the New Testament, Christ’s disciples receive the Holy Spirit and can suddenly “speak in tongues” (glōssais lalein, in Greek), preaching in the languages of “every nation under heaven.” According to Pliny the Elder, the Greco-Persian king Mithridates VI, who ruled twenty-two nations in the first century B.C., “administered their laws in as many languages, and could harangue in each of them.” Plutarch claimed that Cleopatra “very seldom had need of an interpreter,” and was the only monarch of her Greek dynasty fluent in Egyptian. Elizabeth I also allegedly mastered the tongues of her realm—Welsh, Cornish, Scottish, and Irish, plus six others.
- The New Yorker
