La giornata comincia così. Bar. Tavolini all’aperto dove una famiglia rom fa fare colazione al bambino con un bicchiere di latte caldo. Fila alla cassa. Signora davanti a me. Mia coetanea, impeccabilmente vestita. La signora sorride, sorride proprio a me, complice. Poi dice: “Bisognerebbe bruci...

RTFA: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/17/saud… The debate over the controversial practice of child marriage in Saudi Arabia was pushed back into the spotlight this week, with the kingdom’s top cleric saying that it’s OK for girls as young as 10 to wed. “It is incor...

The non-music media loves to write about mash-ups, because it allows them to talk about the niche concern of pop music without much discussing music at all. Because mash-up artists use existing songs, journalists trade the difficulty of understanding new artists for reliable classics. They can talk ...

Last year, Stephen King could only pick seven albums that he liked from the year's offerings, but 2008 has apparently been kinder to King's ears: Not only was he moved to pick a full top 10, he placed two albums—Buckcherry's Black Butterfly and the Pretenders' Break Up The Concrete—at No...

Paste's 2008 best-of isn't unlike the magazine itself: largely predictable, but with a few surprises seemingly thrown in to confuse or distract. The list hews rather closely to their adult alternative aesthetic, but as likely obligated by law, they threw in Lil Wayne (No. 29). He's not quite as good...