T he private investigator told Debra Newell how to make herself a difficult target. Change hotels every few nights. Study the crowd before she entered a room. Ditch her stylish clothes for bland ones. Get a wig to cover her conspicuous blond hair. Blend in. She dreaded that she would meet the fate…

T his couple is all wrong, the lawyer thought. There sat the husband, John Meehan, glowering wrathfully as he plotted legal mayhem on his enemies. There sat the wife, Debra Newell, soft-voiced and love-struck and helplessly in his grip. As he gazed across a conference-room table at his newest…

H e had lavished her with compliments, and now he savaged her looks. He had entered the marriage broke, and now he demanded half her wealth. He had been gentleness itself, and now he threatened her with “long-lost relatives” in the mob. “Enough,” Debra Newell texted him. “You are evil.” “Divide up…

A fter church one Sunday, Debra Newell walked into the living room with her husband to find a woman she did not recognize. The stranger sat trance-like before the big window that overlooked Newport Harbor, a thin, weathered woman in her late 30s or early 40s. She had just used the shower; her curly…

The Pulitzer Prizes startled a lot of people this year with an award that’s usually greeted as an afterthought: the music prize , which went to Kendrick Lamar’s album “DAMN.” It was not only the first time a music Pulitzer was given to a hip-hop album, but also to any work outside the more rarefied…

In the U.S. alone, some 550,000 people experience homelessness on any given night, according to government numbers . Also in the U.S.: People on the internet have crowdfunded almost $2,800 to buy billionaire Elon Musk, who owns at least five mansions, a new couch. More than 200 people donated money,…

This article is the subject of legal complaints on behalf of Cambridge Analytica LLC and SCL Elections Limited. “The connectivity that is the heart of globalisation can be exploited by states with hostile intent to further their aims.[…] The risks at stake are profound and represent a fundamental…

WASHINGTON — For days, top Republicans in Congress demanded the release of James B. Comey’s memos about President Trump, threatening Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, with a subpoena if he failed to share the highly anticipated documents written by the former F.B.I. director. But if…

I. The Bumper The trip to Delaware was only supposed to last a day. David Pokora, a bespectacled University of Toronto senior with scraggly blond hair down to his shoulders, needed to travel south to fetch a bumper that he’d bought for his souped-up Volks­wagen Golf R. The American seller had balked…

T heir first date was at Houston’s, a restaurant in Irvine, where he opened the door for her and put her napkin on her lap. Candles flickered along the polished-mahogany bar; jazz drifted from speakers; conversation purred. Debra Newell had taken pains to look good. Her cornsilk-blond hair fell in…

There is a heartbreaking scene in the middle of Blade Runner 2049 (2017). The hero of the movie, a replicant called K, lives a drab existence in a dystopian, future Los Angeles. The one bright spot in his life is his patient and sympathetic partner, Joi. They share many affectionate moments on…

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What do you do after you've made yet another beautiful film in a career defined — some might say stymied — by an obsessive devotion to beauty? If you're Wes Anderson, the writer-director behind such meticulously crafted art-house miniatures as "Moonrise Kingdom" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel," maybe…

Isle of Dogs type Movie genre Animated release date 03/23/18 performer Edward Norton, Scarlett Johansson, Bryan Cranston, Greta Gerwig, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Murray director Wes Anderson mpaa PG-13 To read more about Isle of Dogs , pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly on stands Friday, or buy…

I used to hate that I wasn’t a “real” writer. The definition of a “real” writer, of course, was a deeply elusive one, a goalpost that I constantly moved for myself depending on how insecure I wanted to feel on any given day. And it was all ridiculous—by the most crudely tangible definition, I was…

For upwards of 20 years, El-P, the indie-rap innovator and one half of Run The Jewels, has been making clanking, sputtering, avant-garde rap beats that sounded like the score to some imaginary dystopic sci-fi movie. And now El-P is getting to score an actual movie, though not a dystopic sci-fi one.…

To say that the Wes Anderson film dehumanizes the Japanese is to assume the primacy of an English-speaking audience. Photograph by Fox Searchlight Pictures / Everett A week ago, I saw Wes Anderson’s “ Isle of Dogs ,” or “Inu-ga-shima.” I saw it as someone who, upon hearing that name, is forcibly…

This foldable skyscraper concept was designed by Polish architects to offer relief in remote disaster zones, and has been named the winner of this year's eVolo Skyscraper Competition . The collapsable tower named Skyshelter.zip was designed by Damian Granosik, Jakub Kulisa, and Piotr Pańczyk to be…

Until the mid-2000’s most web design imitated traditional print layouts, as the success of a website mainly depended on the structure of its visual organization. Yet, since contemporary web is able to employ more advanced methods of animation and interactivity, we can use them to create new forms of…

PARIS — Ahead of his state visit to Washington this week, French President Emmanuel Macron has attracted international praise for being the only European — perhaps even the only Western — head of state willing to confront head-on the rise of anti-democratic regimes. “I do not want to belong to a…

It’s almost January 1st, 2010 and we’ve been mulling over our favorites of 2009 – and the previous decade. Here we present another installment of our “TenYears” list. We already did the biggest losers in the tech industry but why not talk about the biggest product flops? Here are a few of the…

It was supposed to be the laptop that saved the world. In late 2005, tech visionary and MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte pulled the cloth cover off a small green computer with a bright yellow crank. The device was the first working prototype for Negroponte’s new nonprofit One Laptop Per…

A textile factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Credit Daniel Rodrigues for The New York Times Text by Cláudia Brandão Leer en español Mosammot Bulbuli is among the millions of people who work in Bangladesh’s factories that supply clothing to the rest of the world. Image Mosammot Bulbuli, center, takes the…

Ringer illustration Quick, which one of these is your favorite? The Polka King ; 6 Balloons ; Amateur ; Love Per Square Foot ; Game Over, Man! ; The Outsider ; Come Sunday ; Mute ; Irreplaceable You ; Happy Anniversary ; Roxanne Roxanne ; Dude ; First Blush ; Seeing Allred ; The Open House ; I Am…

Luis Mazón Let’s at least agree that the single best line in any Adam Sandler movie remains, “If peeing your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis.” Do you even want context? Does it help at all to know that these words are delivered, totally straight, by a random elderly woman in the midst of…

VENICE, Calif. — Travis VanderZanden, the chief executive of electric scooter company Bird Rides , surveyed the new indoor park at his office one morning this week. While the space is still under construction, it will eventually have a winding path and a park scene, with benches and trees, he said.…

This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. When Bob Dylan was crowned with the laurel wreath of Nobel recognition in literature last year, the internet got het up. Rumors of Dylan's shortlisting by the committee have swirled every year since 1996 but often were dismissed as pipe dreams .…

In the hours following the news of the death of Tim Bergling—the Swedish DJ and producer known to the world as Avicii, who was found dead yesterday in Muscat, Oman —I've been fascinated by social media testimonials focusing on the experiences derived from listening to "Levels" and his other singles,…

SAN FRANCISCO–LOS ANGELES–LONDON–SOMEWHERE IN NORTHERN ENGLAND— The twelve of us at Campo Santo have agreed to join Valve, where we will maintain our jobs as video game developers and continue production on our current project, In the Valley of Gods . If you’re the type of person who gives two flips…

President Trump 's legal team is bracing for the possibility that Michael Cohen could flip on the president and cooperate with prosecutors, according to a New York Times report . Cohen, a longtime personal attorney and fixer for Trump, has repeatedly pledged his loyalty to the president, insisting…

WASHINGTON — He has a reputation as a principled lawyer. He has worked for both Republican and Democratic attorneys general. He has a jugular instinct in courtroom battles but a distaste for political ones. Now Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, is confronting the political fight of his…

THE MORNING PLUM: Former FBI director James B. Comey’s new book and media tour have been closely scrutinized in all kinds of ways, but there should be a lot more media discussion about another inescapable takeaway from his revelations: The grievances of Hillary Clinton and her supporters about what…

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - If a new European law restricting what companies can do with people’s online data went into effect tomorrow, almost 1.9 billion Facebook Inc users around the world would be protected by it. The online social network is making changes that ensure the number will be much…

STX Films/Ringer illustration The last words we hear in the new Amy Schumer movie—and I Feel Pretty is the kind of feature designed to be referred to as “the new Amy Schumer movie,” though Schumer neither wrote nor directed it—aren’t the comedian’s. They belong to a spin instructor, shouting the…

The message of many things in America is “Like this or die.” — George W.S. Trow, Within the Context of No Context , 1980 The Seeing Robot The camera is a small, white, curvilinear monolith on a pedestal. Inside its smooth casing are a microphone, a speaker, and an eye-like lens. After I set it up on…

Over the last few months, Select All has interviewed more than a dozen prominent technology figures about what has gone wrong with the contemporary internet for a project called “ The Internet Apologizes .” We’re now publishing lengthier transcripts of each individual interview. This interview…

President Trump wanted then-FBI Director James Comey to investigate the infamous pee-tape allegations to reassure First Lady Melania Trump that he hadn’t actually paid Russian hookers to urinate on a hotel bed, the former top G-man claims in his new book. “He brought up what he called the ‘golden…

The orchestrated presidential succession underway this week in Cuba, from Raúl Castro to his likely replacement Miguel Díaz-Canel, is prompting a new round of speculation about how the Trump administration should react to the long-awaited departure of the Castro brothers from power. Judging from the…

Donald Trump and his advisors are increasingly worried that Michael Cohen—Trump’s longtime lawyer, whose home and offices were raided by the FBI last week—will be impelled to cooperate with federal prosecutors. “They’re going to threaten him with a long prison term and try to turn him into a canary…

Evan Rachel Wood plays a host on ”Westworld,” where life is presented as nasty, brutish, and punishingly long. Photograph by John P. Johnson / HBO At the end of the first season of “ Westworld ,” the artificially intelligent humanoids who populate the titular Wild West theme park—outlaws and barmen…