It’s a question that has hovered over nearly every new episode of “Saturday Night Live” this season: How will this sketch show, which sits at the intersection of pop culture and politics, handle the latest accusation of sexual misconduct by a prominent, powerful man? In past installments, depending…

This month Meek Mill was sentenced to two to four years in prison for violating his probation. #FreeMeek hashtags have sprung up, and hundreds of his fans rallied near City Hall in Philadelphia to protest the ruling. On the surface, this may look like the story of yet another criminal rapper who…

Getty Images/Netflix/Ringer illustration Among the many opportunities afforded by the confluence of Peak Comedy and Peak TV is the fast track offered to young and hungry talents. The space between Broad City ’s earliest incarnation as a web series and a five-season Comedy Central show was a matter…

R.V.’s are welcome to spend the night at Walmarts like this one in Pooler, Ga., but one hazard can be shopping carts that stray in the wind. George Etheredge for The New York Times As night falls, the motels and R.V. parks along America’s highways begin to fill up with travelers needing a place for…

Photo: Getty Images Director Steven Soderbergh’s latest project, the HBO whodunit Mosaic , stars Sharon Stone as a J.K. Rowling–type writer who gets murdered. Who did the deed, and why? As in any classically styled murder mystery, there are many possible suspects, each with their own motive. But…

Plotting director Steven Soderbergh's latest project—an interactive smartphone app called Mosaic—required covering most of the walls in a Chelsea loft with color-coded cards and notes. The app contains a 7-plus-hour miniseries about a mysterious death, but because viewers have some agency over what…

Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits Ruminations on the heavy weight of software design in the 21st century. Recently I took a monthlong sabbatical from my job as a designer at Basecamp. (Basecamp is an incredible company that gives us a paid month off every 3 years.) When you take 30 days away…

If November 2016 was a study in anguish for many, November 2017 is a study in contrasts. (Well, and anguish.) At the very time when, it seems, Americans have finally begun to take sexual predation seriously and impose meaningful consequences on men who abuse their power, the far right has shot off…

It’s heartbreaking, as a therapist, to see multitudes of patients walk into my office thinking they’re sex addicts, often led by the hand of an angry partner, sometimes having just run away from years of pricey sex-addiction treatment that’s based on nothing more than the sex phobia and the…

I don’t know exactly when I first heard the rumors about Louis C.K., but this is because of how frequently I’ve heard those rumors repeated — not with the hushed tones and gripped elbow of a worried girlfriend’s warning, the way such information is usually shared, but in jokes, told to comedians by…

Everyone should do retrospectives — not just agile software teams. Agile retrospectives. If they have a reputation at all, it’s not for being very exciting. Not many people think: You know what? I freaking love retro! It’s just a meeting, right? Wrong! Why? Because great retros make great teams. And…

In a world where success is flashed across the globe at the speed of a tweet, where wealth can be created overnight and companies listed in a matter of years, many an anonymous entrepreneur has been thrusted into the limelight and glorified for their supersonic rise to success. Indeed we have been…

When I was twelve, my stepfather (Scott Bivans) beat my mother to near death. He liked to drink. Mom stood her ground at first, desperately holding a butcher knife to the canvas of one of his paintings hoping to turn the night’s events in her favor by creating a hostage situation. One more step and…

Broccoli— yes, like the D.R.A.M. song—is the new print weed magazine for women . Launching this month, the mag's Editor-in-Chief Anja Charbonneau says Broccoli will "look at cannabis from an art and culture and fashion perspective... owned by women, run by women, [and] created by women." Charbonneau…

In early October, Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood producer, was fired from his namesake company after multiple women came forward to accuse him of rape and sexual assault. In what appears to be a seismic shift in what behavior is tolerated in the workplace, a cascade of high-profile men, many in the…

I t’s quite hard talking to Björk about her music. This is for a few reasons, the most important of which is that she doesn’t make music to talk about it. She makes music because that is what she does (“I write one song per month,” she says, “sometimes two months”), and usually the whole picture of…

Soon after Harvey Weinstein was first outed as a sexual predator, I created a document titled “Creeps” in which I tried to list every man who had sexually harassed or assaulted me. It’s a companion to the running inventory that I keep in my head of the male filmmakers, in Hollywood and out, whose…

America's cities may be home to individuals belonging to thousands of cultural groups and myriad socioeconomic statuses. But these urban centers are surprisingly no melting pot. As Nate Silver pointed out in several infographics, diverse cities are often the most segregated , especially at the…

Brie Code Wednesday 8th March 2017 Share this article Recommend I wrote a thing a while ago about how I love video games but my friends find video games boring . I made the case that the multitudes of white masculine gamers who dominate the games industry have made experiences that are relevant to…

Laurie Penny | Longreads | November 2017 | 12 minutes (3,175 words) “I’m sick of being asked to suffer so a man can grow.” – Alexandra Petri “Everyone. Fucking. Knew.” – Scott Rosenberg This is actually happening. The so-called “revelations” about endemic male sexual aggression in Hollywood, in the…

Photo: Kevin Mazur Photography/Getty Images for The Bob Woodruff Foundation At the Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village, there’s a table where the comics sit. It’s where they joke, debate, goof off, and ridicule their friends. As depicted on the FX series Louie , it’s the most fun place to be with the…

“Wonder Woman” star Gal Gadot is continuing to battle accused Hollywood sexual harasser Brett Ratner by refusing to sign up for a super­hero sequel unless the moviemaker is completely killed from the franchise. A Hollywood source tells Page Six that Gadot — who last month backed out of a dinner…

Kiersten Essenpreis The winners of Tuesday’s elections — Republican or Democrat, for governor, mayor or dogcatcher — all have one thing in common: They received more votes than their opponent. That seems like a pretty fair way to run an electoral race, which is why every election in America uses it…

Photo by Paula Mariel Salischiker I was there when “lifehacking” was born. It was the 11th of February, 2004, at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, held in a giant conference hotel in San Diego. I was on the committee for ETech (as we called it) and I had lobbied hard for the inclusion of…

Illustration by Adam Maida; Source Photographs by Lenny/IPA/REX/Shutterstock (Argento); Paul Sancya / AP (McGowan); Charles Eshelman / FilmMagic / Getty (Sciorra); Jim Spellman / WireImage / Getty (Weinstein) In the fall of 2016, Harvey Weinstein set out to suppress allegationsthat he had sexually…

At Rolling Stone, reporter Jason Newman recently revealed another round of sexual assault and abuse allegations against R. Kelly . The allegations are from one of Kelly’s former girlfriends, disc jockey Kitti Jones, who dated the singer from 2011 to 2013. It was June 2011, and R. Kelly had just…

Last month, an Access Hollywood correspondent asked the actress Uma Thurman to comment on abuse of power in Hollywood, presumably in light of the sexual assault allegations against the producer Harvey Weinstein. Speaking slowly and deliberately, through gritted teeth, Thurman responded, “I don’t…

Contort yourself in the right viewing position and you can see the Comedy Central show “ Nathan for You ” as any number of things. For those who seize on the small-business angle, it’s a grand treatise on the American dream. For the method actor set, it’s one man’s willingness to put his body and…

This year has to be a hectic one for DJ Shadow. As much as his new album The Mountain Will Fall deserves recognition on its own terms, its Brainfeeder-compatible art-beat minimalism — honed after an inspiring stint spinning DJ sets at Los Angeles’s Low End Theory — is a new form when too much of his…

In 2002, a Chicago comedy duo, Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov, landed their big break: a chance to perform at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo. When Louis C.K. invited them to hang out in his hotel room for a nightcap after their late-night show, they did not think twice. The bars were…

Yesterday in a Federal District Court in Brooklyn, real estate developer Jerry Wolkoff was handed a massive L by the grand jury, which found that Wolkoff broke the law when he decided to brazenly whitewash all the graffiti off of the New York City’s famed graffiti temple, 5Pointz. Although it is not…

Sarah Polley first picked up Alias Grace — Margaret Atwood’s 1996 novel about an Irish servant girl accused of double-homicide in 19th-century Canada — when she was 17 years old. She remembers lying on her couch, drinking endless cups of milky, sugary tea, reading in a brightly lit room through the…

Last month, I came across a New York moment I’ll never forget… Just after sunset, I was walking along the Brooklyn Promenade, when I spotted a couple having a candlelit picnic. The two dined in blue lawn chairs pulled up to a fold-out ironing table. As I passed them, one had just finished a joke,…

Donald Trump is a new kind of old-school American man. In some ways, he’s a throwback to days when authority and power were exclusively white and male by definition, when displays of masculine entitlement were overt and unapologetic. But he’s also a thoroughly modern man-child, the kind of overgrown…

Spain’s attorney general is seeking to prosecute 20 Catalan separatists, including Carles Puigdemont, the former leader of Catalonia. Jon Nazca/Reuters MADRID — Less than a week after Catalonia declared independence , a judge from Spain’s national court on Thursday ordered prison without bail for…

Robert Rodriguez says he knew about Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual assault of Rose McGowan and accuses the mogul of burying the release of “Grindhouse” out of spite. Rodriguez and McGowan were in a relationship from 2006 to 2009, and the director tells Variety in a statement that he was inspired…

The strange world of luxury fashion never ceases to amaze us. Tiffany & Co. recently released its newest collection of luxury home items called “Everyday Objects.” The collection takes ordinary household items—such as paper cups and air vent grills(?)—and turns them into the stupidest flex items of…