Hrag Vartanian

Storefront for Art and Architecture is doing a benefit auction of four of the original cast concrete letters designed by Steven Holl and Vito Acconci for Storefront's facade & bidding starts at $1,000 for each.

Classic camp: "Unless Cher or Harvey Weinstein can pay me my day rate, I don't plan on 'calling in gay' to work on the 10th!"

"While visiting Syria, two London-based women of Arab origin became fascinated by the risqué lingerie openly on display in the souqs and shops of Damascus and Aleppo." (via Kamil Pasha)

Both authors also emphasized that writers and journalists around the globe continue to face death threats for their work every day, mentioning slain Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya as an example.