EMERYVILLE, a tiny city of 12,000 lying on the eastern shore of the San Francisco bay, is rather cruelly known by residents of its bigger neighbours primarily as a place to buy furniture. A huge IKEA, a Swedish homeware shop, greets visitors to the city, which has no fewer than four shopping…

Going bankrupt, falling asleep, and falling in love can all happen at first gradually, then suddenly. Success can happen the same way — or at least that’s how it did for Anderson .Paak . The Oxnard, California, native, born Brandon Paak Anderson, has been a career musician for the better part of the…

Shoukath Ansari in Master of None . Photo: K.C. Bailey/Netflix The 2016 Emmy race has begun, and Vulture will take a close look at the contenders until voting closes on June 27. It’s not often in entertainment journalism that your subject can only talk between seeing patients. But then, Shoukath…

For a filmmaker starting from the bottom, a theatrical run can be a career-defining moment. And now, using a model like Tugg , you can actually afford it. When I embarked on making Brave New Wild eight years ago, I could care less about showing in theaters. Boy, have I changed my tune. I don’t have…

This article is part of Issue 8.5, a digital zine available to Kill Screen’s print subscribers. Read more about it here and get a copy yourself by subscribing to our soon-to-be-relaunched print magazine . /// Fullbright are best known for 2013’s iconic Gone Home . Their particular niche, now being…

Illustration by Joe Frontirre Universal Music Group is set to release a 20th anniversary vinyl edition of the motion picture soundtrack to the 1995 Alicia Silverstone comedy Clueless . This is a pretty strange move aesthetically given that in the mid-90s Beverly Hills world that Clueless inhabits,…

In the Internet Age, monoculture is unachievable. But there remain a few things we can all agree on.​ The Ringer is looking at this rarefied group all week. These are our Undeniables . N ew York, 1900. A doctor in a crimson-and-gold-hued Chinatown den kicks back in his fabulous white shoes — fly,…

TWENTY years ago a debate erupted about whether there were specific “Asian values”. Most attention focused on dubious claims by autocrats that democracy was not among them. But a more intriguing, if less noticed, argument was that traditional family values were stronger in Asia than in America and…

Archie McPhee. A mecca of nonsense. (Photo courtesy of Archie McPhee ) Handerpants, underwear for your hands! The internet’s favorite horse head mask! The librarian action figure with “Amazing Shushing Action!” Seattle’s Archie McPhee is one of the largest and oldest novelty designers and…

Photograph by Dimitri Otis/Getty Dear friends and family, Jen and I are utterly horrified to announce the arrival of our son, Jasper Heusen-­Gravenstein, born May 21st at 4:56 A.M. For nine long months, we've wondered who this little creature would be. Well, now we know: he's the living embodiment…

Imagine that you’ve started a new level in a game that sets the scene for endless opportunities. A new environment riddled with context clues that allow the player to consider their options on how to proceed—until an uninvited UI prompt coddles their decision-making and shatters the illusion of…

"This is going on too long," said a 30-something guy with a job in the film industry. "If we all get to know each other, nobody's going to even want to have sex." It was a warm, late June evening in the Hamptons, sky turning pink and orange at the horizon, and I was at that moment sitting in white…

Editor’s note: On Friday, Kanye West premiered “Famous,” an extended music video for his single in which he portrayed a variety of recognizable faces sleeping in the nude. The 10-minute video has naturally sparked a mixture of outrage and confusion. Here, critics Eric Kohn and David Ehrlich attempt…

As you might imagine, a porn star takes her lingerie drawer very seriously. “This is the working lingerie desk,” says Stoya, gesturing to a vintage-looking writing desk in her Brooklyn apartment. “It’s for sets that are special for me but haven’t been shot, things I haven’t worn on-camera. They live…

Well, here’s one of the most straightforward video game reviews I’ll ever write. Back in 2010, a Danish indie studio called Playdead released a macabre side-scroller called Limbo . It was good . In 2016, that same studio is releasing a new macabre side-scroller. This one’s called Inside , and it’s…

88 Everyone who has ever played Éric Chahi’s Another World (1991) remembers the “Beast.” Emerging from a pool of water, you see a four-legged silhouette perched menacingly on a nearby ledge. The creature then exits to the right. On the next screen it appears momentarily in the background, but you’re…

BREXIT backers must now put flesh on the bones of their post-EU plans, including new arrangements for trade. During the campaign, Boris Johnson said Britain could follow Canada’s example and strike free trade deals with the rest of the world while maintaining control of its borders. But what is the…

The SNP's attempt to be made the official opposition at Westminster has been rejected by the Speaker of the House of Commons. The Scottish National Party had argued that its Commons leader enjoyed the support of more MPs than Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. There are currently 54 SNP MPs but only 40 of…

The name of a new polar research vessel will be chosen by a panel of experts, even if the public overwhelmingly votes to call it Boaty McBoatface. Lord West, ex-First Sea Lord, said he was rather proud "silly names" had been suggested but hoped none were chosen. The Natural Environment Research…

Angela Merkel told the Bundestag talks over UK’s post-EU future would not be a ‘cherry-picking exercise’.Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Angela Merkel , the German chancellor, has dismissed Boris Johnson’s proposal that Britain might enjoy access to the European single market and restrict immigration…

“IMMIGRATION, immigration, immigration,” shouted a headline in the Sun , a right-wing tabloid newspaper, the week that Britain voted to leave the European Union. It followed weeks of campaigning from the Leave side assuring voters that they would “take back control” and restrict EU migration if…

GROWING up a British, and specifically an English person, is bound to have some effect on one’s personality. Just supporting the national sports team induces a sense of perpetual disappointment, as the recent loss to Iceland has illustrated. There is a trait of self-deprecation, which Americans…

Justin Timberlake and Vic Mensa. Last weekend, the annual Pride celebrations and the BET Awards hit on the same summer Sunday evening, as they often do, and incidents arose out of each event that illuminated a need for keener, more informed social-justice advocacy from stars in and around hip-hop.…

Boris Johnson may appear shambolic. He is anything but. The UK’s possible next prime minister is an upper-class master of schmoozing and game-playing. Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Amid the post-referendum rending of garments over Brexit, it has become settled wisdom that it was older working-class voters…

On Friday morning, flags displayed to support the English soccer team seemed like sinister manifestations of the country’s new patriotism of Brexit. PHOTOGRAPH BY SERGEY DOLZHENKO / EPA Sometimes, everything seems connected. While the U.K. has been debating its eventual departure from the European…

A gun and bomb attack on Istanbul's Ataturk airport has killed 41 people, at least 13 of them foreigners, and injured more than 230, officials say. Three attackers arrived in a taxi and began firing at the terminal entrance late on Tuesday. They blew themselves up after police fired back. PM Binali…

The BET Awards Sunday featured tributes to Prince and Muhammad Ali, and a performance by Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar. But this year, the actor Jesse Williams commanded the spotlight with an impassioned speech calling for an end to police killings, racial inequality and cultural appropriation. — deray…

Phil Toledano I t’s 2020, four years from now. The campaign is under way to succeed the president, who is retiring after a single wretched term. Voters are angrier than ever—at politicians, at compromisers, at the establishment. Congress and the White House seem incapable of working together on…

Here is a guide to understanding Britain's vote to leave the European Union, a decision known as “Brexit” that will have global consequences for years to come. Complete news coverage is here. What happened? More than 17.4 million Britons voted June 23 to sever ties with the European Union , whose…

“DON’T go anywhere near a mosque,” I told my mother. “Do all your prayer at home. O.K.?” “We’re not going,” she replied. I am the son of Muslim immigrants. As I sent that text, in the aftermath of the horrible attack in Orlando, Fla., I realized how awful it was to tell an American citizen to be…

Britain's shock vote to pull out of the European Union wiped $2.1 trillion from global equity markets Friday as traders panicked in the face of a new threat to the global economy. Investors fled to the safety of gold, the yen and blue-chip bonds as the seismic shift in the structure of Europe left…

ON JUNE 17th Radiohead, a British rock band, played an unexpected cameo role in Turkey’s increasingly bitter conflict between secularists and zealots. About two dozen men, some armed with pipes, stormed an Istanbul record shop where fans of the group had gathered to listen to their new album.…

There are reasons to doubt whether last week’s decision by British voters to leave the European Union, a move supported by Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London, will ever be implemented. Photograph by Neil Hall / Reuters As I noted on Friday, Britain won’t be exiting the E.U. anytime soon . If…

Update: In case you needed evidence that Trump was indeed having a very bad month, he just parted ways with his campaign manager . Below is a post from Sunday breaking down just how disastrous this month has been. Supporters of Donald Trump got an unexpected plea on Saturday: a request to send the…

Joshua Davis has come a long way since DJing for his college radio station in the ’80s. As soon as he adopted the name DJ Shadow and released his first LP Endtroducing …. in 1996, he began altering the musical landscape with his highly sampled tracks. Now, he’s achieved cult status. Each release is…

The X is dead—long live macOS. With this fall’s release of macOS Sierra, Apple is bringing some familiar iOS features to the Mac, along with interesting interactions with iOS hardware, a dramatic expansion of iCloud, a major update to Photos, and a lot more. I’ve spent the past few days using an…

THEY hoped—and believed—it wouldn’t happen. But now the world’s biggest banks must brace themselves for Britain’s departure from the European Union. Today bankers will simply be trying to weather the turmoil after yesterday’s vote. But in the weeks and months to come they will have to decide whether…