The Pitch With her autobiographical opus Natural Brown Prom Queen , Brittney Parks finally collects her crown. December 13, 2022 Photo by Ally Green With a tunnel of light haloing her from the outside
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Impacts Enlarge / An assortment of robot portraits generated by Stable Diffusion. Lexica By some counts , over 4 billion people use social media worldwide. If any of them have uploaded a handful of pu
A blue whale’s tail appearing from Lake Zug, Switzerland. Image generated by Dalle-2 in July 2022. This year I worked on fascinating projects in energy, media and health* at Magnetic , and learned man
January 22, 2016 Here’s the amazing story of how the night this picture of DJ Premier, J Dilla, D’Angelo & Alchemist were in a studio back in 1998. In this firsthand account, told by DJ Premier to Amb
Like most nerds who read science fiction, I’ve spent a lot of time wondering how society will greet true artificial intelligence, if and when it arrives. Will we panic? Start sucking up to our new robot overlords? Ignore it and go about our daily lives? So it’s been fascinating to watch the…
Kyiv, Ukraine, is the capital of a country that “doesn’t have a professional, well-trained bureaucracy,” said Yuriy Gorodnichenko, an economist calling for deregulation.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times With Russian missiles pounding apartment buildings, power plants, schools and…
T he World Cup! A tournament of frenzied emotion, spectacular goals, heroic upsets, and grand displays of athletic daring and skill. Or, if you’re watching it in the US: four weeks of shouting, relent
BERLIN — Special Forces in Germany have arrested 25 people suspected of supporting a domestic terrorism organization that planned to overthrow the government and form its own state, the federal prosecutor said on Wednesday. In early-morning raids carried out across the country, Special Forces…
In Bono’s new book, he has a lot of very kind things to say about poet/singer/songwriter Patti Smith. She’s been a major influence on Bono’s life and work, as she has been for so many artists across v
I n 2002, Belgian duo Stephen and David Dewaele released a mix album called As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt 2 under the name 2ManyDJs . It sold half a million copies, and its playful, hectic variety spok
Film stills from "Chernobyl: Chronicle of Difficult Weeks," Vladimir Shevchenko, 1986, 54 minutes. Three days after the explosion and meltdown of Chernobyl’s Nuclear Reactor Unit 4 on April 26, 1986,
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The prologue of “ God of War Ragnarök” peaks with a dramatic moment that fans of Sony’s blockbuster video game franchise have been waiting for since it was teased at the end of the previous installmen
Amazon is the first app many of us think about to buy things online. But is it actually a good place to go shopping? When you search for a product on Amazon, you may not realize that most of what you
A t some point in the stretch of days between the start of the pandemic’s third year and the feared launch of world war three, a new phrase entered the zeitgeist, a mysterious harbinger of an age to c
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Stickleyville, Virginia CNN — Back in the late 1980s, when Beau James started pro wrestling, the crowds came for a show between good and evil, to see a story about heroes and villains, to enjoy the bo
Of all the pop-culture phenomena that I have managed to miss out on in my life—and there have been many—no lapse might be greater than having never watched a single episode of “Seinfeld.” In the final
I t is mid-morning outside the Pompidou Centre in Paris and Patti Smith is talking to me on the phone – she is trying to puzzle out how best we are to find each other within the labyrinthine building:
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In this precarious moment - in the fourth quarter of 2022, two years into the recovery from COVID - of all the forces driving towards an abrupt and disruptive global slowdown, by far the largest is th
Design by Maitane Romagosa for Thrillist Sarah E. Daniels, a wine buyer and former pastry chef who lives in New York’s Hudson Valley , loves apple cider donuts. Not only are they “dang delicious,” b
Photo: Disney The Disney Parks have seen better days. What was once a desirable, affordable vacation for some American middle class families has devolved into something prohibitively expensive and str
O ne of the cardinal sins of film criticism, and one of the bad habits you need to flush from your system in the early days of writing, is telling the reader how you would have improved upon a film ha
You’re sitting with Sylvester Stallone and word that keeps coming to mind is so simple and grunt-y that it could be dialogue from one of his tough-guy action movies: Big . The man is barrel-chested bi
Photo: Apple Corps Ltd Last week, the Beatles released a “super deluxe” boxed-set version of their 1966 album Revolver , which is filled with home demos, studio outtakes, and liner notes by Questlove,
Steve McQueen. Photograph: Chris Pizzello/Invision ‘The cinema had mice but it felt like being at the ringside’ Steve McQueen Scorsese is so good at introduction scenes. I love the one in Mean Streets
The short tenure of UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, seen here at a press conference on October 14, has been dominated by economic and political instability. Daniel Leal-WPA/Getty Images The United Kingdo
Alan Moore, who is perhaps the greatest comic book writer to ever live, does not give many interviews. “No offense, but I am unused to publicizing my own work,” he told me from his home in Northampton
In 1956, rock and roll was busy being born. Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm had broken through five years earlier with a jump-blues hit called “Rocket 88”—a credible candidate for the ur-rock tune—
Chipotle/Facebook Chipotle just eliminated tacos from its digital menu. Some customers were using a social media "hack" to get burrito-sized portions for just $3. Chipotle says customers can still ord
The genesis of the Trump-era and its ultimate impact on American politics is explored in two new books. NPR Maggie Haberman's biography Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of A
The night I asked the souvlaki truck on my corner to put gyro meat on top of my feta fries I felt like a god. My partner looked at me in bafflement under the truck’s harsh lights. “You can just do tha
At moderate fitness, it takes me roughly 27 minutes to ride from my driveway to the gate in Boulder Canyon, and almost exactly another 15 minutes to Lucy’s Overlook. I know the climb intimately: where
What's your favorite ice cream flavor? You might say vanilla or chocolate, and if I asked why, you’d probably say it’s because it tastes good. But why does it taste good, and why do you still want to
Last spring, I finally dragged my Trek Checkpoint ALR5 out of the garage for a much-needed tuneup. I ride year-round, but it’s often difficult to regularly wash and tune a bike during winter in Colora
At a White House ceremony on August 9, days after the U.S. Senate agreed in a near-unanimous vote to ratify the expansion of NATO to include Finland and Sweden, U.S. President Joe Biden highlighted ho
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