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…

This article is a collaboration between WIRED and Epic Magazine . Photographs by Cait Oppermann Love in the Time of Robots Hiroshi Ishi­guro builds androids. Beautiful, realistic, uncannily convincing human replicas. Academically, he is using them to understand the mechanics of person-to-person…

I was 37, single, unemployed and depressed because in a couple of months I was going to be moving out of my studio apartment on East 23rd Street in Manhattan and in with my mother in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Since taking a buyout at my Wall Street firm, I had devoted myself to two activities:…

They didn’t pay me, I swear The subtle design choices that nobody talks about People love their messaging apps like their hometown sports teams. You’ll find die hard fans of iMessage, Whatsapp, and Facebook’s Messenger defending their platforms with a ferocity found more in sports bars than on…

Fake designs yield real results Twenty years ago, when I started my design career, I made a lot of fake stuff. I can still clearly remember when I designed my own CD covers for albums by famous bands, created a fake e-commerce site with my friends, recreated famous logos in Corel Draw, redesigned a…

Brie Code Monday 6th November 2017 Share this article Recommend Where are we headed? I'm concerned that most of the stories we are telling ourselves, especially within the games industry, are dystopian. Dystopia, no matter how beautifully rendered, is a resignation to a view of humanity or to our…

Credit Erik Madigan Heck for The New York Times. Stylist: Kathryn Typaldos. G reta Gerwig once peed her pants during a math test. She was in seventh grade, it was a new school, the test was a placement exam and she didn’t know the rules. Was she allowed to get up? Was it O.K. to raise her hand?…

[touches earpiece] I'm getting word that all of them are bad — Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) October 12, 2017 There’s an old saying: “men are bad.” It’s become, in the past few years, a very popular “joke” on Twitter because most of the bad things — wars, capitalism, mass shootings — are perpetrated and…

Google Daydream VR Headset (2017), Olivetti Divisumma 18 calculator (1973) Once upon a time, we had products that were colorful, in shapes that were quirky, whimsical, and expressive. Interesting! And then, almost every tech product became white, silver, gray, black, flat, square, round, and…

Over the past week, millions of people have used the hashtag #MeToo to share their experiences of sexual abuse and harassment. The Times Colonist is exploring the issue, and sharing the stories of people in our community. ( You can read some of them here .) Warning: Some of these stories contain…

Rick and Morty is in crisis, and we’re not just talking about the few intense fans who make the show look bad. The show, as a whole, already seems to be running out of steam. (Spoilers ahead!) (Get the MP3 here.) No wonder, then, that the latest season ended with the promise of a more streamlined…

PARIS — It’s hard to imagine a country where butter is taken more seriously than it is in France. It’s a staple of sauces and baking, alike. Without it, the croissant would be a leaden mass of flour, and the jambon-beurre sandwich missing a certain something. The Rouen Cathedral is said to have been…

Felling a man of Harvey Weinstein’s stature was undoubtedly going to create aftershocks. It must help that the actresses coming forward with accusations against him are famous, people we recognize, people we believe we love even if we don’t actually know them. It helps us to care about them and, as…

A week ago, reporters and editors in the combined newsroom of DNAinfo and Gothamist , two of New York City’s leading digital purveyors of local news, celebrated victory in their vote to join a union . On Thursday, they lost their jobs, as Joe Ricketts, the billionaire founder of TD Ameritrade who…

Michael Fallon leaving 10 Downing Street last week. He stepped down as defense secretary on Wednesday. Alberto Pezzali/NurPhoto, via Getty Images It is the butterfly-effect theory of politics made instantly visible. Dogged reporters uncover a story of Hollywood sexual assault, and across the globe…