The actress Chloë Sevigny, in 2011, at the New York record store Other Music, which closes its doors this week. Photograph by Thos Robinson / WireImage for American Express / Getty This Saturday, Other Music—the tiny, beloved, and outré record shop on East Fourth Street—will cease its retail…

Ringer illustration Eric Slivka always gets anxious the day of an Apple event. Like a nervous date on prom night, the 38-year-old editor of MacRumors.com gets ready a few hours too early. He wakes up in the morning, ensures the site is updated with any last-minute leaks, and preps the snacks and…

Getty Images In New York on Sunday, Kanye West intended to perform at the Governors Ball music festival, while in New Jersey, his G.O.O.D. Music cohorts performed at Hot 97’s Summer Jam. Unfortunately, severe weather advisories and subsequent programming adjustments sent countless fans into a…

The United States sure seems to have a lot of mass shootings—but we can’t tell for sure, because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aren’t allowed to study it . Even now, after 14 have been confirmed dead in the deadliest shooting in the United States since Sandy Hook , there’s no robust…

Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. The MCX “innovative weapon system.” Sig Sauer Since the massacre in Orlando early Sunday morning, pro-gun pundits have come out in force to argue that the weapon used in the attack is not an assault rifle. The gun lobby prefers to…

In the wake of the horrific shooting in Orlando that left 50 dead, a political struggle is forming on whether to define this act as an anti-gay crime or an act of radical Islamic terrorism. The answer, it's quickly starting to seem, is both of these, and more. A picture is quickly starting to form…

I’m a son of immigrants, and a gay man who grew up in Orlando in the ’80s and ’90s. My earliest visits to gay clubs in the city were clandestine operations, and let me tell you, it is difficult to be undercover-gay while dressing appropriately for a night out with the boys. On a trip to Parliament…

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I have cheated on people and been cheated on by people. In fact, I have cheated on every single boyfriend I have had, except my husband. I am a horrible person. Or maybe I am not. Maybe I'm just like the rest of you. The thing with cheating is that it would not exist without the threat of being…

He was the greatest DJ of all time, a human mash-up, spinning through a life of desperate lows and exhilarating highs By Jonathan Shecter DJ AM was the greatest DJ of all time. When we talk about the art of DJing—in the sense of rocking a party, the most important aspect of what a DJ does—Adam…

20th June 2016 RJD2 Photo by Nick Fancher ‘Dame Fortune’ is the deliciously eclectic sixth album from veteran producer and crate digger extraordinaire RJD2. It’s a wondrous beast, recorded over the past year while living in Philadelphia, before returning to his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. Streaked…

Tig Notaro: ‘It was me taking control of the narrative.’Photograph: Amanda Friedman for the Guardian O n 3 August 2012, the American comedian Tig Notaro decided to change her life. The prospect in itself didn’t scare her. After all, she’d already gone through an extraordinary number of life changes…

The true tale of why Remedy and Diabolic need to have several seats L et’s deal with the facts. Hip-hop was primarily created by black and Latinx youth living in the South Bronx in the 1970s. During that time, highways were being built through poor neighborhoods, destroying the fabric of these…

The Terror Inside: ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ and ‘Black Swan’By Alissa Wilkinson Baby girls get swaddled in pink, all sweetness and light, cooing little bundles of cotton candy. We sing them lullabies, play melodies on music boxes that cradle spinning ballerinas, nestle them between pillows and puffy…

Trump at his speech in New Hampshire. “If we don’t get tough, and we don’t get smart—and fast—we’re not going to have a country anymore,” he said. “There will be nothing left.” Photograph by Jessica Rinaldi / The Boston Globe via Getty In the past two decades, as mass shootings have become…

Nobody loves a spoiler. The recent trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice , which opened this weekend to less than stellar reviews , was torpedoed with hate after fans thought it revealed too much of the plot. But if spoilers are the ultimate trailer buzzkill, then what is it that makes them…

We’ll need to see your phone, please: An audience member places her cellphone into a Yondr pouch before entering the Aztec Theatre in San Antonio for a June 14 Dave Chappelle show where a phone-free policy was enforced. (Bahram Mark Sobhani/For The Washington Post) NEW YORK — On a cool Manhattan…

Charles Cohen (second row, second from right) with the 609th Transportation Company in 1946. Photo courtesy of Charles Cohen On July 12, 1973, the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) outside St. Louis, Missouri, caught on fire . The center was, and still is, the largest repository of military…

A maze of political signs for Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in Charleston, South Carolina. (Reuters / Randall Hill) Hillary Clinton won the Democratic presidential primary by 387 pledged delegates and 3.7 million votes. Despite this large margin, some of Bernie Sanders’s most strident…

Illustration by Christoph Niemann In the mid-nineteen-seventies, the Canadian province of Manitoba ran an unusual experiment: it started just handing out money to some of its citizens. The town of Dauphin, for instance, sent checks to thousands of residents every month, in order to guarantee that…

Last week, Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor announced he was stepping down as the leader of the streaming service. The move comes at a time when the company has grown tremendously — going from 40 to 200 employees and increasing their revenue five-fold during Trainor’s four years at the helm — but has yet to…

At 63, Tony Kaye is plotting another comeback. Although he’s always been an award-winning director of commercials and music videos, his feature career is a study in scorched earth. His last film was five years ago; before that, he shot “Black Water Transit,” which was never finished. And then…

Donald Trump is in trouble. You can't tell from his performances at his campaign rallies. The Republican presumptive presidential nominee remains bullish and combative, but the problems are there. First he stirred up a controversy with comments about a judge hearing a civil case against him. Even…

Ringer illustration Editor’s note: After publication, a Snapchat spokesperson reached out with a response to this story. Click here to read the company’s statement. On Monday morning, Argenis Pinal did what many of us do: He grabbed his phone, swiped to Snapchat, opened the app, and started flipping…

Dozens of Republican convention delegates are hatching a new plan to block Donald Trump at this summer’s party meetings, in what has become the most organized effort so far to stop the businessman from becoming the GOP presidential nominee. The moves come amid declining poll numbers for Trump and…

Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference on March 6, 2014. ( Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com ) With Donald Trump’s poll numbers sinking into a death spiral, dozens of Republican delegates are now openly plotting a coup to overthrow him at this year’s Republican…

PHOTOGRAPH BY FENG LI / GETTY FOR PARAMOUNT Donald Trump's Vice-­Presidential short list was recently narrowed down to one unlikely name: the blockbuster-movie director Michael Bay. Trump is reported to have spent between two and a half and three hours, with bathroom breaks, interviewing the…

I was four years old when my dad bought a wolf . We named the pup Dusty and gave him a pen at the edge of our basketball court, in front of the garage. Our lives were already extremely weird by suburban Pittsburgh standards: My dad owned almost two acres of land and six huskies, and dogsled racing…

I am angry. Yesterday I was sad. Today, I am angry. I know that’s facile and cliche and maybe even self-absorbed. I’m trying to think of a better word — I bet the Germans have a perfectly and oddly specific one, but English doesn’t, so angry will have to suffice. I’m angry that I’ve always known…

In his speech today, about terrorism, immigration, and Donald Trump, President Obama looked as ticked off and impassioned as we’ve ever seen him. Photograph by Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool / Getty This morning, I took a mental-health break from coverage of the attack that took place in Orlando over the…

A still from 'Victoria' When you watch Victoria , the Berlin-set heist movie shot in a single breathtaking 134-minute take, you feel like you've experienced something IRL. Like you've actually gone to an underground club in Berlin, done a load of coke under the strobe lights and headed into the…

Microdosing means taking enough of a psychedelic drug to get a gentle boost of creativity, energy, mood, and focus, but not enough to actually trip. There's been a lot of info about it in the past few years , mostly focusing on silicon valley types who swear microdosing makes them better people.…

Sarah Gertrude Shapiro’s show takes aim at sexism and competition among women. Illustration by Malika Favre For three years, Sarah Gertrude Shapiro worked as a producer on the reality show “The Bachelor.” Her task, as she recalls it, was to get the contestants to “open up, and to give them terrible…

Illustration by Dan Evans Topless, longhaired and in the middle of an orgy: that's how you make a good entrance in a film. Problem is, not any actor can pull this off. But Vincent Cassel can, and does, in Tale of Tales , Matteo Garrone's mad and beautiful new epic. Cassel is louche, sexy and French…

Image: Apple/Gizmodo Apple has been moving out of the computer business for awhile. Where once the WWDC keynote would have revolved around OS X ( just renamed macOS ), now the event is the iOS show. Which is totally understandable! iOS is one of the most widely adopted operating systems in existence…

Donald Trump seemed to repeatedly accuse President Obama on Monday of identifying with radicalized Muslims who have carried out terrorist attacks in the United States and being complicit in the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando over the weekend, the worst the country has ever seen . "Look,…

O n its last full day of trading, the Ladbrokes betting shop in Morden, south-west London, stayed open until 10 at night. It was Friday 24 May 2013, the beginning of one of those spring-summer weekends for which the schedules of global sport combine to throw up a glut of events that can be gambled…

Andrew Janik One weekend last month, hundreds of expensively dressed Los Angeles teenagers stood in line on Fairfax Avenue, sweating. “I got here at 10 p.m. last night. I put chairs down, and then I left, went to eat, and got a blowjob,” Avi, 17, rattled off on Sunday afternoon. “Then I came back…