India’s Blackout Makes Every Other Blackout Ever Look Pathetic

Passengers on 500 trains found themselves stranded.

Power outages spread throughout northern and eastern India for the second day in a row on Tuesday and now encompass a population of 600 million people. To put that in perspective, if a blackout hit all of the United States, Mexico, and Canada at the same time, it would still fall about 100 million people short of the people affected by India's electriciy failure. Then again, 300 million Indians don't have access to electricity ever, so for them, today is just another day in the life. Go home and hug your air conditioner.

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Paper Swords, and Other Rikers Island Rules for Touring Shakespeare Troupe

Members of the Public Theater's Mobile Shakespeare Unit, which is staging a production of Richard III on Rikers Island, are performing under some difficult circumstances: Only after crossing the river from Queens, passing several ID and metal detector checks, and receiving an ultraviolet hand stamp, do the actors finally get to see the stage and props they'll be using (a 14-by-14-foot taped-off section of a gym floor and paper and rattan swords, respectively.) As for "the fans oscillating at top speed," "telephone ringing in the corner," and "guard walking by with jangling handcuffs and jingling keys," there's nothing the actors can really do except emote, emote, emote.

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