All-girl punk band sentenced to two years in Russian jail: Too harsh?

RUSSIA'S EVOLUTION All-girl punk band sentenced to two years in Russian jail: Too harsh? The verdict is in: Pussy Riot will face 19 more months in prison on charges of "hooliganism" for storming a church in Moscow and protesting Putin's rule ART The week's best photojournalism In some of the week's most inspired images, a balloon peddler maneuvers though a tight spot, President Obama goes mystic, and a group of protesters cover up RELIGION How evangelicals hear the voice of God When anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann studied how evangelicals pray, says Jill Wolfson, she came to a surprising realization THE APPLE UNIVERSE Apple TV: Why the excitement is gone Though once hyped as a cable workaround, Apple TV is reportedly shaping up to be an underwhelming compromise that works with the big cable companies BOOKS Molly Ringwald's 6 favorite books The founding member of Hollywood's "Brat Pack" picks the fiction and poetry that inspired her just-published debut novel, When It Happens to You FILM+TV Goodbye, Twilight: Robert Pattinson's chillingly crude turn in Cosmopolis In the new film, the young actor transforms his image as an amoral moneybags who perfects shallowness as the global economy collapses around him FROM OUR PARTNERS AT SLATE Will the elderly ever accept care from robots? The new movie Robot & Frank shows a humanoid machine playing nurse to an ailing old man. Nightmare scenario or sign of things to come? SEE ALL CARTOONS SLATE The best photos of Mars since Curiosity's landing NEWSER This robot can change colors and disguise itself NEW YORK MAGAZINE Mitt Romney's curious brand of bibliophilia TECCA Newly discovered crystal formation can cut through diamonds MENTAL_FLOSS 19 old-timey slang terms to bolster your vocabulary Have gun, will inadvertently shoot own butt A moviegoer accidentally opens fire on... his own butt — and more in our collection of strange revelations about the nation         Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences | privacy policy  Copyright © 2012 The Week, All rights reserved.