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Octogenarian restorer strikes again!

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:30:00 +0000

Remember the infamous 80 year old who “restored” the 19th century fresco in a Spanish church? Some may think it’s a joke, but we think she’s a genius. Her unique brand of restoration foregrounds the meaning of things. What is a masterpiece? Who decides? Why is a crown of thorns better than a fur hat? And why should mouths have to be drawn completely anyway?

The Punk Restorer™ (from her Grindr account)

Welcome to Video Dog

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:31:00 +0000

There's a lot we can say about what we aim to accomplish with Video Dog. Our fragile hopes and dreams. Our desire to bring cool TV snippets and original shorts and news gotchas and miscellaneous fluff to the masses. Our fondest wish is that you'll join us, sending in your own homemade videos, local news media atrocities and stupid pet photos. But we'll keep this short: This isn't a place for telling, it's a place for showing -- showing you the worst political obfuscations, along with the best joke of the night on "Letterman," the worst local news teaser ever, the highlight of last night's "Survivor" or just some looped footage of newscasters falling down during a hurricane. So, welcome! And stay tuned.

Introducing Salon’s cheeky new women’s blog

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Broadsheet started, as many things at Salon do, over e-mail. A member of the staff would pick up on a piece of news about women that was funny or horrifying or exciting but was not getting many column inches in the rest of the press. Sometimes those e-mails turned into stories, but often the item would be small enough that it wouldn't merit its own feature at Salon, either. Still, the staff comments -- hilarious, angry, shocked, pleased -- would zing back and forth by e-mail chain. Without realizing it, we'd begun our own internal blog, with a circulation of about a dozen people, that paid attention to the newsworthy triumphs and travails of what we used to call the fairer sex.

So here we are, carving out a new niche in our ever-evolving publication. Our aim is to cast a spotlight on news that puts women in the center, because while we've come a long way, a quick scan of bylines and stories in most major newspapers will show you that women are still not always being seen -- or read. Broadsheet will be taking the ladies seriously, whether that means tracking news about how our rights are holding up, how well we're representing ourselves politically, or how the advertising world has decided to address us, what kinds of health advances are ahead of us -- all the news of our (usually) two-steps-forward, one-step-back march to equality. Broadsheet is about contradictions -- the fact that opinion and editorial pages are dominated by men, alongside the fact that the most powerful editorial section of all, that of the New York Times, is run by a woman, Gail Collins. That's the Broadsheet paradox: We've got problems, we've got some power, we'll talk about both.

The people’s choice

Tue, 02 Sep 2003 23:29:00 +0000

As we begin the post-Labor Day marathon race to the 2004 presidential election, Salon is curious to know how its readers are sizing up the field of candidates. Who do you love or loathe? Who has the best chance of taking the White House? Here's a chance to go beyond the cut-and-dried answers to telephone pollsters. Tell us in your own words how you feel about the candidates for the highest office in the land.

We start today with a letter from a reader in Maryland, responding to Joan Walsh's recent story on Howard Dean.

Ms. Walsh:

Well, I'm going to subscribe to Salon today, mostly because of your column about Gov. Dean. It hit the journalistic bullseye.