With the release of her new sex-, love-, and utopia-fueled album, Björk takes a moment to reflect on her past—and dream about her future . good morning sooo i’m all sleepy but happy here, just having sent the last files to mastering, album ready...!and then got asked to write questions to…

Lena Dunham said she'd no longer allow her images to be photoshopped after her Vogue photo shoot (above) was retouched. Credit: Vogue Marketers are fond of saying they favor authenticity in advertising, but starting next week, France's ad industry won't have any choice in the matter. A new law that…

UPDATED : Rose McGowan ’s Twitter account has been suspended for violating Twitter’s rules, McGowan said in an Instagram post. “Twitter has suspended me,” she wrote. “There are powerful forces at work. Be my voice.” The actress has been vocal on the platform in recent days regarding the recent…

billy woods is a superlatively talented rapper and writer who, in the last half-decade, has reemerged from obscurity to become a darling of the avant-garde. History Will Absolve Me , his first solo record in eight years, was released in 2012 to rave reviews; he followed it with three more solo LPs…

The prominent white supremacist Richard B. Spencer was a featured speaker at a rally on Saturday in Charlottesville, Va., where demonstrators reprised their chant of “You will not replace us!” and asserted that the South would “rise again.” The gathering, which occurred eight weeks after a “Unite…

Austin Rogers. Photo: Jeopardy! ​I was beginning to think I was falling out of love with Jeopardy! Earlier this year, for the third time, I auditioned for the show. And, for the third time, they didn’t take me. They never confirm you’re not wanted — they just never call. Gutting. Still, I couldn’t…

In a touching Medium post a few days ago, the writer and programmer Paul Ford shared what he thinks is the secret to his politeness. In conversations with new acquaintances, Ford asks plenty of questions and lets the other person do the talking. He tries not to ask what they do for a living, but if…

On Sunday, Vice President Mike Pence made a big show of leaving an NFL game early. He declared himself upset that some players knelt during the singing of the Star Spangled Banner. “I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our flag, or our national anthem," he declared, as if…

The third season of Rick and Morty began with a convoluted story in which series villain Rick breaks out of prison before breaking up his daughter’s marriage. There’s also a huge battle that includes many Ricks from other dimensions as the story folds back over itself and past seasons, and the whole…

Yesterday, Google announced a new addition to its home-assistant product line: the $49 Google Home Mini. The device–which lets you access information and services from your computer or phone using just your voice–looks like a smooth, fabric-wrapped river rock. It was designed to make the advanced…

A July 2017 study revealed that Tinder users are excessively willing to disclose information without realising it.Photograph: Alamy A t 9.24pm (and one second) on the night of Wednesday 18 December 2013, from the second arrondissement of Paris, I wrote “Hello!” to my first ever Tinder match. Since…

Monday night was a sad night for all rap fans. Miley Cyrus performed a rendition of Cardi B’s beloved “ Bodak Yellow ” on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon . As part of the show’s Random Genre Generator prompt, Miley sang a bluegrass version of R. Kelly’s “Ignition” and then went on to give us a…

Harvey Weinstein is sorry. Harvey Weinstein is also suing The New York Times for their story published yesterday, detailing “ decades of sexual harassment accusations ” against him. Can you truly take responsibility while beginning litigation against the newspaper that exposed your misconduct? Six…

The American empire is coming to an end. The U.S. economy is being drained by wars in the Middle East and vast military expansion around the globe. It is burdened by growing deficits, along with the devastating effects of deindustrialization and global trade agreements. Our democracy has been…

I know what you did last weekend: wine tasting with the uni girls, making sushi with your five-a-side team, a lamp-shade design workshop with your brother, Tough Mudder with Sean from accounts. You exist only for the moment. You are getting your life. The sun will set on this weekend, true, but…

The world’s most powerful information gatekeepers neglected their duties in Las Vegas. Again. Photo: Steve Marcus / Las Vegas Sun / Reuters In the crucial early hours after the Las Vegas mass shooting, it happened again: Hoaxes, completely unverified rumors, failed witch hunts, and blatant…

Sep 27, 2017 For Mother's Day I asked for one thing: a house cleaning service. Bathrooms and floors specifically, windows if the extra expense was reasonable. The gift, for me, was not so much in the cleaning itself but the fact that for once I would not be in charge of the household office work. I…

Illustration by Angelica Alzona In the first few minutes of Final Fantasy VI , just when you think you’ve got a sense of the game’s rhythm, everything changes. Your amnesiac hero Terra, who you’ve been controlling for half an hour and are probably assuming will be your protagonist for the long haul,…

Saturday Night Live has never had more eyes on it than it does going into its 43rd season. That’s true in a very literal sense: the comedy institution earned its highest weekly viewership in decades last season, closing out with a finale that hit a six-year ratings peak . And in the broader cultural…

Ringer illustration Mark Zuckerberg was once described as writing with “the cadence of a Sociology 101 student.” There is no better way to describe the prose he used to announce the social network’s new “Watch” tab in August. “We believe it's possible to rethink a lot of experiences through the lens…

Cuphead turns players into perfectionists. The long-awaited hand-drawn action game is full of cartoony boss battles that demand enough precision and focus that even a single hit of damage feels unacceptable. Playing Cuphead is like a stage performance; every mistake is embarrassing, but the curtain…

(and I think I am finally ready to write about it.) I shifted uncomfortably, the white paper sheet crackling beneath me. My stomach was in knots. As I looked at the OBGYN’s face, my impending sense of dread multiplied. I knew. “The test is positive. You are pregnant.” The look on my face must have…

James Damore was fired by Google last month after suggesting that there may be biological reasons for gender gaps in tech jobs. Credit Jason Henry for The New York Times By SAN FRANCISCO — Their complaints flow on Reddit forums, on video game message boards, on private Facebook pages and across…

I woke up this morning, pulled my iPad off my nightstand and opened Twitter to see if there was any overnight news. There was a horrific mass shooting in Las Vegas. I spun around to get a handle on the scope of the attack, the death toll and other basic facts. Then I started thinking through what…

Each colored square represents a day in which at least one mass shooting took place. 2016 JUNE 12, 2016 A gunman opens fire in an Orlando nightclub, leaving 49 dead and many wounded. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history – until Oct. 1, 2017. June 31 mass shootings August July 42…

Hugh Hefner, gone to his reward at the age of 91, was a pornographer and chauvinist who got rich on masturbation, consumerism and the exploitation of women, aged into a leering grotesque in a captain’s hat, and died a pack rat in a decaying manse where porn blared during his pathetic orgies. Hef was…

LAS VEGAS — A gunman on a high floor of a Las Vegas hotel rained a rapid-fire barrage on an outdoor concert festival on Sunday night, leaving at least 59 people dead, injuring 527 others, and sending thousands of terrified survivors fleeing for cover, in one of the deadliest mass shootings in…

Wilbert Awdry, who created Thomas the Tank Engine, disliked change, venerated order, and craved the administration of punishment. Photograph by PBS via Everett When I was a child, I could spend all day at Shining Time Station, thefictive train depot with its own eponymous TV show, where Thomas…

Raw and gritty. Those are the two words that Memphians of a certain age use to describe themselves, words which also perfectly exemplify the heavily textured music of Isaac Hayes. Still, with brother Isaac aka Black Moses aka Chocolate Chip, there was also a smooth side, a lover-man baritone side, a…

The Arduboy looks like a tiny knockoff Game Boy — and in a lot of ways, that's exactly what it is. Funded on Kickstarter last year, the Arduboy promised to let owners create and play their own games and install new games built by the community. And now one year later, it's been shipping to backers…

Today in Tedium: If you wander through some corners of eBay, or Amazon, or even YouTube, you’ll see ‘em: The clones. Cheap clones . Expensive clones . Clones that play five different systems . Clones that rip off multiple consoles at once . Some, even, open source . But before there were clones,…

There's a reason that the documentary filmmaker panel at Tribeca gave this film every single Jury Award. Bobbi Jene Smith strips naked, gracefully moves her way through a crowd of onlookers, gesticulates in a series of wild yet graceful spasms, and ultimately, masturbates to orgasm against a sack of…

Have you ever watched an episode of the BBC quiz show, Eggheads ? Well, you should; you'll be gobsmacked by what you see: passive-aggressive patter; tiny benches, contestants leaning all over each other like they're crammed onto the back of a bus; grown "quiz experts" glaring at presenter Jeremy…

Amazon unveiled six new hardware products at its surprise event in Seattle yesterday, but the Echo Spot has everyone talking. Most people think the Echo Spot is cute ; a little alarm clock that’s designed to sit next to your bed. While all the focus is on what the Echo Spot looks like, it’s…

Ethan Miller / Getty Images Holly Madison decided to write a book when she was excelling in her career — starring in the long-running Peepshow in Las Vegas at Planet Hollywood, as well as her own E! reality show Holly's World — and yet fans would not stop asking her about Hugh Hefner and her time as…

Angela Merkel won a fourth term as chancellor in Sunday’s election, but her victory was overhsadowed by the entry of the far-right party, Alternative for Germany , into Parliament for the first time in more than 60 years. Patrick Chappatte is an editorial cartoonist for The New York Times. View more…

exclusive Trump’s campaign CEO may be best known for running a race-baiting, alt-right mess of a website, but he also once wrote a rap musical about the 1992 L.A. riots. exclusive Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast Decades ago, Stephen K. Bannon was just another hungry aspiring…

The Oscar-winning actor-filmmaker-humanitarian spoke with Marlow Stern about his timely new film ‘Suburbicon,’ racism in America, and what happened with Hillary. Getty If the Hollywood powers that be ever endeavor to produce a Cary Grant biopic, George Clooney would be the perfect man for the job.…