All posts tagged: pink

Pink Ink by Avina St. Graves

Pink Ink by Avina St. Graves

Published by Jenni Sidey

Thirteen hours into a student film shoot, a girl lies on a kitchen floor with pink corn syrup pooling under her neck, glitter in her hair, and a co-star who cannot be bothered to untie her wrists. The scene she is re-creating happened to a real man three weeks earlier. Nobody else on set knows that. Pink Ink by Avina St. Graves hands its heroine a camera, a leaky police contact and a very bad idea. Reyna Sinaga is a final-year film student at Cresswell University, a Gothic Ivy dropped into New York, and she has spotted what an entire precinct has missed: a run of murders staged to echo famous paintings. She calls him Böcklin’s Shadow, and she restages his work in fake blood the colour her mother once said would make horror less frightening. Then her professor takes an unexplained fall, a substitute arrives, and Reyna finds herself arguing about brushwork with the man whose crime scenes she has been photographing. The Argument That Starts Everything Their first meeting is a fight in …

Don’t Overestimate the Pink Tide

Don’t Overestimate the Pink Tide

Published by Sam Flores

Candidates endorsed by New York City’s democratic-socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, swept the city’s primary elections yesterday, provoking alarm in both conservative and centrist circles over the future of the Democratic Party. The right-wing New York Post dubbed the winners, Brad Lander, Claire Valdez, and Darializa Avila Chevalier, the “hateful slate.” The Free Press quoted a supporter of one of the defeated candidates warning that it “doesn’t feel safe to be Jewish anymore,” notwithstanding the fact that one of those winners, Lander, is Jewish and a self-described liberal Zionist. New York Attorney General Letitia James told CNN, “All of us are a little frustrated with the Democratic Party. But you don’t blow it up. That’s what MAGA has done.” The leftist trend goes beyond New York. In Seattle, the democratic socialist Katie Wilson is five months into her first term as mayor. Another democratic socialist, Janeese Lewis George, won the Democratic primary last week in Washington, D.C., and will likely be the city’s next mayor. In Los Angeles, the democratic socialist Nithya Raman has a good …

Five-star Glassdoor employee reviews for Pink News deleted

Five-star Glassdoor employee reviews for Pink News deleted

Published by Sam Flores

A series of five-star employee reviews posted online for specialist LGBTQ+ publisher Pink News have been taken down after a complainant alleged they were “AI-generated”, Press Gazette can exclusively reveal. The reviews were removed after they were reported to Glassdoor, a platform that allows current and former employees to leave anonymous reviews of their workplaces. Pink News, founded by Benjamin Cohen in 2005, describes itself as “world’s largest and most influential LGBTQ+ led media brand”. It has faced criticism over its business practices and workplace culture following allegations first raised in 2024 by an anonymous social media account called Pink News Whistleblowers and a BBC documentary. Cohen and chief operating officer Anthony James have rejected the allegations as groundless and defamatory. In February, an ex-employee of Pink News reported nine reviews posted to the publisher’s Glassdoor page to the platform’s internal trust and safety team. The complaint, which Press Gazette has seen in full, raised concerns that the reviews were written by AI and did not match the staff makeup of certain departments within the …

The women of “Pretty in Pink” deserved better

The women of “Pretty in Pink” deserved better

Published by Sam Flores

Cinematic exposition is a tricky thing. When we watch movies, we’re being plunked into a story already in progress. And unless you’re watching some outré arthouse film allowed to play by its own rules, there’s a finite amount of time for the director to communicate the essential building blocks of their story that are necessary for the viewer’s enjoyment. Done right, narrative exposition will tell an audience everything that they need to know about a character, while leaving just enough room for curiosity to take hold. Done wrong — or rather, clunkily — and the viewer can be removed from the story in a second flat, all too aware that they’re being spoon-fed a collection of character traits meant to tell, not show. “Pretty in Pink,” released in theaters 40 years ago this week, exemplifies an ideal marriage of the two. Its opening sequence is both graceful and conspicuous; its exposition is entirely legible, yet so very charming that its plainness doesn’t matter one bit. John Hughes — who wrote the film’s screenplay but deferred …

What the heck is pink noise? And why are scientists saying sleeping with it can harm your health?

What the heck is pink noise? And why are scientists saying sleeping with it can harm your health?

Published by Daniella Wilson

Pink noise is often promoted as a way to help people fall asleep faster and block out other bothersome sounds that can disturb our sleep – but researchers say it might not be as healthy as it seems. The ambient and steady, static-like tone from pink noise is similar to tapes of heavy rainfall or ocean waves, and aims to soothe the brain into a deep slumber. Pink noise contains lower frequencies of sound than white noise – which is the same as TV or radio static – and there are machines that provide people with both kinds of noise. Recent research on its effectiveness has been largely positive, with a 2019 Northwestern study finding that the noise could boost deep sleep in patients with mild cognitive impairment. But a new warning from researchers at Penn Medicine cautions that pink noise may actually be doing more harm than good for your sleep quality. open image in gallery Many Americans use pink noise sound machines or videos to help them sleep at night. Now researchers say …