Spartacus. Roman Holiday. A Guy Named Joe. Curtain Call.
He’s Frank Underwood. He’s Keyser Soze. He’s John Doe. (Not spoiler alerts– it’s been 20 years, see the movies). He’s Dave Harken. He’s Jonathan Irons. He’s Lex Luthor. But worse of all, he’s Richard Nixon.
“Put some Windex on it!”
CNN will host a six part miniseries come 2016 about six exciting campaigns to become leader of the free world. Produced by Kevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti, with their Trigger Street Productions (along with Raw Productions), the docu-series will be CNN’s new 2016 original series and will feature unseen footage and interviews with the key people who were involved with those elections.
In a press release by CNN, the president of CNN Worldwide, Jeff Zucker, stated, “We are absolutely thrilled to have Kevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti bring their world-class talent to CNN. When we created the CNN Original Series brand, this is exactly the type of programming we had in mind and Race for the White House will be the perfect complement to our coverage of the 2016 campaigns and election.”
Narrated by Spacey, each hour long installment will closely follow a campaign to become President of the United States. Considering that Spacey is Frank Underwood on the Netflix series House of Cards, it’s no wonder that CNN would want to show the dirty side of politics. Below are our guesses for the six campaigns:
- Trump v anyone
- Trump v. everyone
- Trump v. Trump
- Trump v. Trump v. wall around Mexico
- Trump v. Trump’s tax records
- Trump v. Trump comb over
All joking aside, we can be be fairly certain that the 2016 campaign will be one of six. The other five? We can only speculate, but:
- Adams v. Jackson (calling dead mothers certain words is a no-no)
- Bush v. Gore v. McCain (the movies are endless but don’t forget the Republican primary)
- Polk v. Clay (The 1844 election where Clay is a commandment breaking adulterer)
- Ford v. Carter v. Anyone (As in a man who was never elected v. a man who won by two points)
- Romney v. Obama v. Republican Primary v. Democratic Primary (no evidence of foul play)
Food Day hopes to change the diets of Americans and to make better lifestyle choices with over 8,000 events nationwide. The day, which will falls on October 24, is the global awareness of where we get our food and at what costs. Set on answering that question, Susan Rockefeller, who is also a conservationist, has made the documentary Food For Thought, Food For Life.
The 20 minute film, which was selected at Cannes 2015 and the 2015 Sarasota Film Festival, addresses the issues that Americans have with how their food is picked, made, produced and shipped to dinner tables everywhere.
Food Day manager Lilia Smelkova said in a statement, “We are thrilled to partner with Susan Rockefeller on the online release of this remarkable film. By providing our partners at over 8,000 events nationwide with access to the film we can ensure Food Day will impact in even greater ways in 2015.”
Similarly, Rockefeller stated, “It’s an honor to partner with Food and to play a role in helping reach millions about the food issues that affect each one of us.” Rockefeller also made other thought-provoking documentaries including Making The Crooked Straight and A Sea Change. Food For Thought, Food For Life is a production of Rockefeller’s Protect What Is Precious brand that she created in 2013.
Seeing Tracy Morgan up and about was a sight for sore eyes as we’ve all awaited his return following his recovery. And his appearance as host of Saturday Night Live’s third episode of it’s 41st season gave us all reason to smile.
On October 13, the New York Public Library (NYPL), as part of their 10 years celebration the “Live from the NYPL” series, held a talk with The Atlantic editor and author of “Between The World and Me,” Ta-Nehisi Coates.
From the company that brought us such savory goods as Cheerios, Nescafe (and Nespresso), Dibs, Drumstick, Haagen-Dazs, San Pellegrino, and of course our ultimate favorites, baby food Gerber and cat food Friskies.
You know that whole scandal? You know, the one where that CEO of that company did a bunch of heinous things? And how he basically is under fire for sexual harassment charges?
The Mantles are not a rock band that you might have heard of—yet. They produce this new kind of alternative psych folk music that completely encompasses everything we have always wanted to hear in a band of that . .. genre? And now with their new release of All Odds End available to stream on Stereogum, we can get that much closer to listening to their new stuff.
Coming from the Bay area, the band has a number of tricks up its sleeve in terms of getting just the right sound to come out, and Michael Olivares sure delivers in terms of what we want to hear. Plus, they have the amazing Papercuts producer Jason Queyer standing right by their side to make sure that everything goes well—and boy does it. The whole band is full of songwriters and performers, and it sure is seen in their album, which you find here.
Also available to stream is Maya Postepski’s (Princess Century) Progress album, which will be released on October 12. After she released Lossy EP this year, she’s releasing Progress under the name of Princess Century. Because of the anticipation, this early release was meant to better get fans to know her music better. Listen to it here.