Our weekly recap highlighting the best feature stories from around the internet.
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Manifesto: Simon Wilson’s last editorial - Metro
“Nobody is so good they can’t be better, and the key to making a story better is to make it shorter. If you take out 10 per cent, you tighten. Take out 20 per cent, you get down to the muscle. Very few people can do it to their own work. Very few people like it being done. The only thing is to do it anyway.”
Becoming Rihanna – by Mary H.K. Choi, The Fader
“I have discussed, at length, over drinks, whether or not she works out. How many phones she has. If she ever gets sick. If there exists a man who could date her and, more importantly, who we’d want that man to be, because surely we deserve a vote, because stars are just like us, and of all stars, Rihanna feels the most real.”
Chris Brown and Our Domestic Violence Double Standards – by Kanoa Lloyd, Newsworthy
“All this makes it seem like the people in charge of our country’s borders are taking a real stand against the well-known perpetrators of domestic violence. In reality, it seems they’re only taking a stand against the black ones. If you’re black and you’ve been violent or offensive, we don’t want a bar of you. If you’re white, you’re still welcome. We’re much more certain you’ve learned the error of your ways.”
Hip-Hop and R&B Fans Embrace Streaming Music Services – by Ben Sisario, The New York Times
“Results reflect a banner year for hip-hop and R&B music, with a crop of acclaimed albums and a generation of influential stars. But music executives say they are also an indication of the way that listeners consume music these days, with hip-hop’s younger, mobile-connected audience leading a shift away from downloads.”
A tumor stole every memory I had. This is what happened when it all came back – by Demetri Kofinas, Quartz
“Through persistence, luck, and maybe something more, an incredible medical procedure returned my mind and memories to me almost all at once. I became the man who remembered events I had never experienced, due to my amnesia. The man who forgot which member of his family had died while he was sick, only to have that memory, like hundreds of others, come flooding back.”
Why doesn't she leave? – by Catriona MacLennan, NZ Herald
“As we give such low priority to domestic violence in this country, there is never enough accommodation for women and children seeking safety. Every bed in refuges in Auckland will commonly be full almost every night.”
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