Alabama This article is more than 7 months oldAlabama digital road sign hacked to display white supremacist messagesThis article is more than 7 months oldMotorists reported that a sign displayed the name of a white nationalist hate group and a far-right slogan
Authorities in Alabama are investigating how white supremacist messages appeared on a digital road sign along a highway busy with Memorial Day traffic.
Motorists on Interstate 65 near Clanton called state troopers at lunchtime on Monday to report the words “Patriot Front” and “reclaim America” were flashing on an electronic sign, interspersed with messages warning of an upcoming roadwork zone, AL. Read More...
Book of the dayYoung adultReviewA young heroine finds danger as well as friendship and hope in a cold war America populated with dragons
In Patrick Ness’s latest novel, dragons exist, in all their fire-breathing glory. The initial setting is 1950s America, against the backdrop of the cold war. An uneasy human/dragon truce has been in place for hundreds of years, but the community’s distrust of outsiders runs high. Racist cops patrol the roads, using violence to intimidate the weak. Read More...
The ObserverMoviesInterviewCall My Agent!’s Laure Calamy: ‘I have too much energy’Jonathan RomneyThe ebullient French star on her hyperactive new film, taking on more serious roles and her love of British cinema
Laure Calamy certainly makes a jaunty entrance. She’s somewhere out of sight in the kitchen of her Paris flat, and all I can see on my laptop is a vividly coloured glass partition – a Mondrian pattern of rectangles in rich shades of red and orange. Read More...