Cathy Leaves
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Cathy Leaves' Cellar Door Blog
http://cathyleaves.blogspot.com/
Reviews of current television shows, Orphan Black, The Good Wife, Orange is the New Black, and complete reviews of Bomb Girls, Skins, Popular, Caprica, My So-Called Life, Dollhouse. Pop Culture and Politics.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 779 )
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Random Mixtapes - i Unravel Your Mistakes.
Petros Koublistei shi | see me. laura marling | strange. julia holter | feel you. roísín murphy | evil eyes. wishyunu | photoplay. ghostpoet feat. nadine shah... Read more
Posted on 21 September 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 17/9/15
Politics: On Hannah Arendt: A short graphic novel about The Banality of Evil, and a long, enlightening investigation into Eichmann in Jerusalem, and the debate... Read more
Posted on 17 September 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Spill
Bishop was Abbott’s close advisor and foreign minister. She strongly supported her boss until she didn’t. Bishop is a highly capable leader with a very strong... Read more
Posted on 15 September 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Freedom of Movement
So, the first paradox is that those countries, which, after half-a-century of confinement, consider the greatest achievement of the 1989 revolutions to be... Read more
Posted on 14 September 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 11/9/15
Politics: These conflicts have already displaced close to 60 million people, the highest number ever recorded. Half are children. Some events that drive people... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 2/9/15 Compact Version
Speechless: Discrimination on the basis of religion is specifically prohibited under European law—which is one of the reasons people fleeing sectarian... Read more
Posted on 02 September 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: August.
Non-Fiction: Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me.Brian Tracy: Eat That Frog!David Allen: Making it All Work.Daniel H. Pink: A Whole New Mind.Daniel H.... Read more
Posted on 31 August 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 14/8/15 China and the Future
Politics: On China: Brookings with a detailed explanation of why China is rebalancing: In recent decades, China’s rapidly growing middle class lacked... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
I’m a Machine, and I Can Know Much More
It's like I'm reading a book... and it's a book I deeply love. But I'm reading it slowly now. So the words are really far apart and the spaces between the... Read more
Posted on 10 August 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links:5/8/15
Politics: This is haunting: climate scientists, hounded by right-wing media, know how dire the situation is, but decide to talk about it less and less. Read more
Posted on 05 August 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: July.
Non-Fiction: Tim Soutphommasane: Reclaiming Patriotism. Nation-Building for Australian Progressives.Stephen Covey: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Charles... Read more
Posted on 31 July 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 23/7/15
Politics: Columbia Journalism Review points out that the complaint that Laura Poitras filed to gain access to the personal data that government agencies... Read more
Posted on 23 July 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
On Europe
In a detailed exploration of Ukrainian history and philosophy, The New York Review of Books asks questions about the future of Europe that go beyond simply... Read more
Posted on 23 July 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 17/7/15
Politics: Mary Kaldor on Greece and the future of democracy in Europe: But globalisation is not the only reason. The erosion of substantive democracy also has t... Read more
Posted on 17 July 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
More Perspectives on Greece
“The advantages far outweigh the disadvantages,” Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany told a news conference, explaining her decision to accept the deal and... Read more
Posted on 13 July 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Das Lied Zum Sonntag
Bi-continental scatterbrain with a focus on women centric television shows, currently reviewing the third season of Orange is the New Black, and I will be... Read more
Posted on 12 July 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Perspectives on Greece
This brings us to the crux of the matter: Tsipras and the former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, who resigned on 6 July, talk as if they are part of an open... Read more
Posted on 10 July 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Das Lied Zum Sonntag
Son Lux - You Don't Know Me[via Flavorwire]You see my face in the starsYou write my name on your wallsI feel you tracing my scarsI see you down on your... Read more
Posted on 05 July 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 1/7/15
Politics: On Greece: And, sure enough, what we are seeing now, 16 years after the eurozone institutionalised those relationships, is the antithesis of democracy... Read more
Posted on 01 July 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orphan Black - Do You Ever Wonder If You’re Overplaying Your Hand?
Orphan Black: 3x10 History Yet to Be Written.Every time Orphan Black gears up towards its great, crazy moments it takes a respite to offer what makes its... Read more
Posted on 29 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO