Our weekly recap highlighting the best feature stories from around the internet.
Drake. Photo: AFP
For Drake, Home Has Limitations – by Anupa Mistry, The Fader
“Views should be a victory lap. Its 80-minute length infers complexity. But instead, Drake’s stories are like the plot of Groundhog Day set inside The Shade Room. That a man who pits pools in a dick contest with Kanye West is flummoxed by his success doesn’t make him humble, it’s exasperating.”
Leicester City’s Impossible, Anomalous Championship – by Hua Hsu, The New Yorker
“In the post-“Moneyball” era, when quantitative analysis sometimes seems capable of predicting everything in advance, there’s something tremendously romantic about Leicester’s rise. It’s nice to think that something so unexpected and strange might happen simply because a group of individuals commit themselves to a common cause.”
Hilary Barry resignation last straw for MediaWorks executives – by David Fisher, NZ Herald
“In a place where everybody knew each other, and worked hard to have fun while making quality broadcasting, the disappearance of familiar faces was said to have sapped the spirit which made MediaWorks special. The frosted-glass meeting room where those difficult discussions took place became known as “the crying room.””
Our Problem With P – by Jess McAllen, New Zealand Geographic
“The meth scene is “huge” in the Waikato, she says. “Every time I come home there’s someone new that’s gone down the path and ruined everything for themselves. I saw a friend covered in bruises after her partner got home from a few days on it and he lost his mind.””
Hooking up: Sex in the age of the Tinder and free pornography – by Henry Oliver, Idealog
“A lot of people are not aware that very mainstream heterosexual porn can be quite derogatory, and certainly geared towards portraying a very unequal view of sexual interaction and sexual conduct. It's filmed from the man's perspective and for the heterosexual male user - the male actor being the focal point and the female actor the person he does things to.”
Will There Ever Be A Lemonade Moment For Black Men? (If So, Who Will Create It?) – by Damon Young, VSB
Like anyone reading this wouldn’t be interested in a 12 track version of [Jay Z’s] interpretation of the events that led to the creation of Lemonade. Remember that scene at the beginning of Mad Max: Fury Road when Immortan Joe was about to turn on the giant shower head and everyone was wanting underneath, desperate for any drop of water? That would be me waiting for Jay Z’s Lemons.
