PolicyMic's Culture Round-Up: Join Us For Happy Hour

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PolicyMic is a site driven by quality content and comments, and at the root of the whole operation is our incredibly engaged community.  While we interact with that community every day online, I’m excited to invite you all to meet your fellow PolicyMic-ers offline! 

If you will be in New York City next Tuesday the 17th then swing by PolicyMic headquarters for the second ever culture section happy hour. Come see our new offices, meet fellow culture writers, and say hello to me and Julianne. If you are planning to attend, please e-mail me (elena@policymic.com) to RSVP.

Looking forward to seeing you all!

 

Shout Outs of the Week:

Shout out to pundit Jessica Schreindl, whose piece Cliteracy: 21 Things Millennials Should Know About the Clitoris was the most Mic'd story on the site this week. 36 Mics!

What Have You Been Up To?

Culture Section Must-Reads of the Week:

Is Ryan O’Connell the Real First Voice Of Our Generation? (Daniel Lefferts, @d_lefferts) – Q&A with Ryan O'Connell, Thought Catalog's first staff writer and author of the site's early viral successes like 'How to Be a 20-Something' and 'What It Feels Like to Get F***ed in the Ass.'

10 Foreign Words We Wish We Had in English (Shivani Ishwar, @x_Dominoe) – If you've ever realized that there's just no English word to describe what you are trying to say, you might be interested in these words from other languages around the world.

Meet the Theater Company That Invented the Classiest Drinking Game Ever (Julianne Ross, @JulianneRoss) – UglyRhino Productions has discovered the secret to making live theater appeal to the masses: booze. It's also redefining what a night at the theater can be.

A ‘Halo’ Developed Called This Female Avatar “Disgusting” (Abdul Siddiqui, @A_R_Siddiqui) – 343 Industries designer David Ellis expressed disdain for Hideo Kojima's scantily clad female character design for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

Saudi Arabia’s First Female Filmmaker Finds Her Voice (Missy Kurzweil, @missykurz) – We sat down with Haifaa Al-Mansour, Saudi Arabia's first female filmmaker, to discuss 'Wadjda,' her film about a spunky 10-year-old girl, which will premiere in New York on Friday.

What ’40 Days of Dating’ Got Right About Millennial Relationships (Farah Mohammed, @FarahColette) – Timothy Goodman and Jessica Walsh's artificial dating experiment had an important message about our 21st-century relationships, but it wasn't the one the couple intended.

This Brilliant Website Will Revolutionize the Way You Read (Emma Greenberg, @babyg263) – Poetry Genius, a new locus for literary discussion, may be completely changing the way poetry is read and taught in schools.

11 Movies You Can’t Miss This Fall (Nick Recktenwald, @NickReck7) – With the arrival of fall, it's time to count down the movies everyone - including the Academy - will be buzzing about this season.

I’d love to hear your feedback! Email me at Elena@policymic.com

Have a happy weekend!