The President of Iran just banned all Western music from the country. It's unclear from the article whether he has banned all music, or just Western music.

This would be a good time to recommend the graphic novel memoir Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, about an Iranian girl growing up in Tehran in the early 1980's during the Islamic Revolution. It's ( Read more... )

From voleuse's Friday roundup: Disney is replacing Christopher Robin with a girl.While the presence of strong female characters is always something I vocally support, I am also a cranky old-school purist and this just gets my hackles up. Also, she's being described as a "tomboy" which to me, condescends to girls anyway. Why are athletic girls who don't ( Read more... )