The Baffler

• Here are some fun facts about minimum wage. In both Georgia and Wyoming, the state minimum wage is $5.15 an hour. In Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee, there is no state minimum wage at all. Yesterday, Senate Republicans blocked a vote on a bill ...

• The cause-i-fi-cation and brand-i-fi-cation of the artist Ai Weiwei, from The L Magazine. • In related news, the making of the cottage industry of posthumously-discovered street photographer Vivian Maier, from Chicago Reader. • The Denver Post investigates why Colorado ...

• “Kodak did finally modify its film emulsion stocks in the 1970s and ’80s—but only after complaints from companies trying to advertise chocolate and wood furniture . . . . Kodak never encountered a groundswell of complaints from African-Americans about their products. ...

• Craft beer, artisan pizza, independent movie theaters, gourmet coffee, and displacement of the poorest residents: tales of gentrification in Johannesburg, South Africa. • “Because of the high cost, climbers usually range from the young, sponsored athlete to wealthy men ...

Justin Timberlake/Sean Parker photo illustration by Mike Cicchetti • “Starting a company was once an urge felt only by the blindly ambitious and slightly unsound, but in the Valley it’s been ostensibly transformed into a scheduled path one can simply elect and apply ...

Women and men, feminists and fashionistas, wealthy heirs and high-heel wearers, militant multi-taskers, Camus-carrying intellectuals, and rifle-wielding libertarians, let’s all take a look back at the past week on the Baffler blog: • “Feminism is going to make it possible ...

• The newsreel archive British Pathé has now uploaded its entire collection of 85,000 historic films, in high resolution, to YouTube, here. • Today is the first day of the National Rifle Association convention in Indianapolis. According to OpenSecrets.org, the NRA ...

Photo by The Baffler • Look what we found in a bagel shop in Brooklyn! • Relatedly: after yesterday’s news that Kim’s Video will be closing its last NYC location this summer, we heard that the late great and also-shuttered Bleecker Street Records is ...