Getty Images Trash talk is an elemental mode of expression because it springs from simple, universal feelings: anger, a thirst for revenge, and the ancient, instinctual desire to kick an opponent’s ass. It signals a corruption of the pure, play-the-right-way ideals of athletic competition. Trash…

Game Info Platform Win, PS4 Publisher Hello Games Developer Hello Games Release Date Aug 9, 2016 Before you decide whether or not No Man's Sky is a game you'll appreciate, you must ask yourself a single tough question: How much do you value technological wonder over everyday, solid, smart game…

One of the stranger narratives in the annals of pop music during the early '90s tells how, in both Britain and the U.S., musical subcultures from culturally marginal cities suddenly burst into prominence to dictate, for a time, the cultural conversation in their respective nations. The similarities…

In its first seven years of existence, Uber has irked cities, flouted regulators, and petrified whole industries. It has yet to make money but is worth a fifth more than BMW and almost a third more than General Motors, both the owners of tons of futuristic technology, tens of billions of dollars in…

A rally against an attempted coup in Turkey last month. Turkey remains an attractive investment market, despite political and economic instability. Ozan Kose/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images On the face of it, this might not seem the right time to be investing in Turkey . Terrorists attacked the…

Bookmakers have shortened their odds that Article 50 — the two-year notice period the must give to officially leave the EU — will never be triggered. Sky Bet currently has 6/4 odds on Article 50 happening in "2018 or later or not at all," the favourite option in its Brexit betting market. This is…

How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world I gor Schwarzmann is the German co-founder of Third Wave, a strategy consultancy based in Berlin that works with small-scale industrial manufacturers. The company’s clients range across Europe, the United Kingdom, and the…

From left, David Jolicoeur, Kelvin Mercer and Vincent Mason of the pioneering hip-hop group De La Soul. Tony Cenicola/The New York Times On Valentine’s Day in 2014, De La Soul did something surprising: The group gave away almost all of its work. After gathering fans’ email addresses in an online…

Illustration by Christoph Niemann In January of 2014, Barack Obama, speaking to the press before a Cabinet meeting, said something that has come to define his Presidency: “We are not just going to be waiting for legislation. I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone, and I can use that pen to sign…

They’re bad for artists, bad for fans, and not even surprising anymore. So why do musicians and streaming services keep dropping them? So it’s come to this: vast swaths of the internet waiting with baited breath, watching Frank Ocean mess around in a woodworking shop, counting down until the release…

Three years after it was initially announced at E3 2013, No Man’s Sky has officially gone gold. Few games in recent memory have created so much buzz. The near-infinite universe that No Man’s Sky offers is plenty reason to be excited but the way Hello Games is creating that universe using procedural…

The new superhero film “Suicide Squad,” starring Will Smith and Margot Robbie, will make viewers feel both exhausted and hollow, as if a whole lot of nothing has just thundered by. PHOTOGRAPH BY CLAY ENOS / DC COMICS / WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT “The worst of the worst.” That is the phrase chosen by…

This article is part of a collaboration with iQ by Intel . The multiplayer game Push Me Pull You builds a sense of community with the help of a bizarre but goofy premise. In a world populated by strange two-headed “sports monsters,” players must face off against each other in a friendly game of ball…

The Donald Trump gaffe track keeps playing. The GOP frontrunner seems to literally spew out a doozy almost daily. Campaigning in Pittsburgh, he recently blathered , “How’s Joe Paterno? We gonna bring that back? Right? How about that—how about that whole deal?” While his campaign suggested he was…

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has the power to make or break your theatrical release with its rating system. Many original cuts of popular films have been brandished with an NC-17 rating over the years, often prompting filmmakers to re-edit for a more commercially viable R. In…

Art: Brett Affrunti When Mello Music Group founder Michael Tolle entered the music biz in 2007, he was bombarded by proclamations of the industry’s imminent demise. A digital revolution had decimated the market for physical sales, and conglomerate-backed major labels were slow and indecisive in…

The chant erupts in a college auditorium in Washington, as admirers of a conservative internet personality shout down a black protester. It echoes around the gym of a central Iowa high school, as white students taunt the Hispanic fans and players of a rival team. It is hollered by a lone…

ABOUT 15 minutes after a Cairo-bound EgyptAir flight took off from Alexandria, Seif Eldrin Mustafa left his seat. He claimed he had a bomb strapped around his waist. He handed the crew a note for the pilots, demanding that the plane be rerouted to Cyprus. If the plane landed in Egypt, he threatened,…

Photo by Diana Clock J ennifer Lawrence recently reported to the BBC that she uses a female urination device (FUD) while suited up as Mystique for X-Men movies. She said, “I can’t sit down, so I have to pee out of, like, a funnel, and I just can never get it right. There is no way to do it and not…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkey will consider reinstating the death penalty after the failed attempt to overthrow his government. Erdogan calls on US to extradite cleric Gulen "In democracies, decisions are made based on what the people say. I think our government will speak with the…

Image: Ventral is Golden. There is the language adults use with each other and the language they use with children, which, in linguistics, is known as “child-directed” or “caretaker” speech. Caretaker speech obeys a separate grammar from adult speech, with diminutive inflections and suffixes. It…

Almost a decade passed since Full Metal Jacket hit the theaters, and Stanley Kubrick lived a sort of a reclusive life in London, distanced from the press. It was then that he felt he could turn his attention to his slow-brewing passion project. In the sixties, he purchased the rights to Austrian…

Newt Gingrich’s politics of destruction paved the way for Donald Trump. John Sommers II/Getty Images Outside contributors' opinions and analysis of the most important issues in politics, science, and culture. Trumpism may have parallels in populist, nativist movements abroad, but it is also the…

'Unfortunately, film school is not going to go extinct. I wish it would.' Repetition is a powerful tool for both filmmakers and teachers, and Professor Werner Herzog wants you to know two things: he doesn't have a cell phone (later he will tell you that he does, but only for emergencies) and he…

It’s impossible for us to choose a single favorite genre from the wealth that cinema offers. But if some sort of “ Sophie’s Choice ” situation were to occur, we probably would be able to point to one that occupies a more central place in our hearts: science fiction. The term encompasses multitudes:…

One of the most iconic stars of action cinema this century returns to the big screen this week, as Matt Damon gets back in his old shoes as Jason Bourne in, well, “ Jason Bourne ,” his fourth time playing the forgetful super-spy since 2002’s “ The Bourne Identity .” And few action stars are as…

Ronnie Music Jr., after winning $3 million in the Georgia Lottery in February 2015. Georgia Lottery A Georgia man who invested his $3 million lottery winnings into a thriving crystal meth business is facing an unexpected return: decades behind bars. The man, Ronnie Music Jr., 45, scooped up the…

by Hillary Clinton What the fuck is your problem, America?? I’m Hillary goddamn Clinton. I’m a political prodigy, have been since I was 16. I have an insane network of powerful friends. I’m willing to spend the next eight years catching shit on all sides, all so I can fix this fucking country for…

Photographs From the Final Day of the Democratic Convention Josh Haner/The New York Times PHILADELPHIA — The Democratic convention is over, and delegates streamed to airports and train stations on Friday morning to return home for the summer weekend. But the contrasting back-to-back political…

On Comedy Jeff Ross on Thursday on the Comedy Central special “Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle.” Credit Riccardo Cellere When the comedian Jeff Ross started flinging insults at the Friars Club in the mid-1990s, the comedy roast was mostly seen as a relic. “It was like jousting or some lost art,” he…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration “Wow,” a man said to me recently on the subway, “I haven’t seen one of those things in years .” He gestured toward the scuffed-yet-still-sleek, aluminum-colored rectangle in my hand — a 160GB sixth generation iPod Classic. I blinked for a moment. We were not talking…

Joshua Brown, who died in a crash in Florida, poses with his Tesla Model S in 2015.Photograph: Krista Kitchen/AP O n Saturday, 7 May, Joshua Brown was driving his Tesla Model S on US 27 in northern Florida. He had the car’s Autopilot technology package switched on. A long, white articulated truck…

In 2012, Captain Dan and his Scurvy Crew, a four-man hip-hop ensemble trying to cement “pirate rap” as a tenable subgenre, appeared on America’s Got Talent . The quartet had clearly put some thought, or at least effort, into the act; their pirate costumes might even have passed historical muster…

CLEVELAND — It was the biggest speech of Melania Trump’s life, and her husband, Donald, wanted it to be perfect. The Trump campaign turned to two high-powered speechwriters, who had helped write signature political oratory like George W. Bush’s speech to the nation on Sept. 11, 2001, to introduce…

Carol Highsmith took this photo of Seattle, gave it to the Library of Congress for public use, and we downloaded it for free after double-checking with Highsmith's attorney. Will Getty slap us with a threatening letter to sue The Stranger if we don't pay a usage fee? As reported by Carey Dunne on…