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…

Takeesha and Steve, Bronx, New York.Photograph: Chris Arnade for the Guardian O n the morning of their wedding, Omar and Betty shared a breakfast of egg McMuffins at a small McDonald’s table, dressed in their finest clothes. Before driving to a Houston courthouse to be married, they walked into the…

When you look at the sheer range and number of original stories being told in comics form today, it’s hard to imagine a better time to be a comics reader. Online and in print, from all around the world, artists and writers are telling stories with their own voices and styles, and there’s so much to…

ATLANTIC CITY — The Trump Plaza Casino and Hotel is now closed, its windows clouded over by sea salt. Only a faint outline of the gold letters spelling out T-R-U-M-P remains visible on the exterior of what was once this city’s premier casino. Not far away, the long-failing Trump Marina Hotel Casino…

Much as he has done throughout his primary campaign, Donald Trump responded with ugly, untrue comments to news of the attack at a gay night club in Orlando. PHOTOGRAPH BY KEITH SRAKOCIC / AP In the rhetoric of Donald Trump , mendacity and cynicism compete for equal time. It is hard to say which…

Photo: Photo courtesy of Jensen More than 15 years ago, before he was host of the popular Earwolf podcast Get Up on This and co-owner of L.A.’s pop-culture-focused Gallery 1988, Jensen Karp was Hot Karl, an up-and-coming rapper who parlayed competitive freestyle success into a record deal. His rap…

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Ringer illustration A little over a year ago I finished a spin class, retrieved my phone, and discovered a concerning number of missed calls from an unknown number. “Holy shit,” I thought, “a family member is dead.” I called back and encountered a weary voice. “Everything is fine,” she told me,…

Original images from Wired Magazine. One thing I’ve noticed since moving to San Francisco is that my cohort in the tech world doesn’t talk that much about the industry’s past. This is understandable: it’s easy to forget that tech has a history. Just as old hardware is regularly tossed and replaced,…

When you look at the sheer range and number of original stories being told in comics form today, it’s hard to imagine a better time to be a comics reader. Online and in print, from all around the world, artists and writers are telling stories with their own voices and styles, and there’s so much to…

67 Beating one of the levels in OmniBus means driving over a ramp, bonking the head off a statue, and careening into a set of bowling pins before turning right-side up to drive straight into the endless blue ocean. I take no responsibility for that last part. After you beat any of the game’s levels…

Gunman Omar Mateen killed 49 people and injured 53 others when he opened fire at a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Mateen was fatally shot by police. Police have notified the next of kin for nearly all of the victims. The FBI had questioned Mateen twice in the past, but he still legally…

When you look at the sheer range and number of original stories being told in comics form today, it’s hard to imagine a better time to be a comics reader. Online and in print, from all around the world, artists and writers are telling stories with their own voices and styles, and there’s so much to…

Gawker Media, the irreverent company that pioneered the wry tone and take-no-prisoners approach that came to embody a certain style of web journalism, put itself up for sale on Friday in an acknowledgment that its future as an independent news organization was in doubt. Gawker said it had filed for…

Sunspring , a short science fiction movie written entirely by AI, debuts exclusively on Ars today. Ars is excited to be hosting this online debut of Sunspring , a short science fiction film that's not entirely what it seems. It's about three people living in a weird future, possibly on a space…

"I have to go to the skull." Michael Nordine Jun 9, 2016 3:10 pm @slowbeard Share This Article Science fiction suggests that man’s attempts to create artificial intelligence will probably end badly. Real life proves that we don’t really care. A short film written by an A.I. algorithm seems a happy…

The giraffe tends to appear in parents’ lives sometime around the birth of a first child. It’s 7.5 inches tall, squeaky, and vaguely vanilla-scented. Its pupil-less eyes have the same blank, dazed expression newborns might recognize in the sleep-deprived parents dangling the toy above their crib. If…

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Game Info Box Art N/A Platform Win, PS4, Xbox One Publisher Three Fields Entertainment Developer Three Fields Entertainment Release Date Jun 3, 2016 It’s not easy to make golf exciting. To pull it off, Dangerous Golf subverts the whole sport, both the rules and the attitudes. It’s in good company —…

Stanford University. Easyturn/Thinkstock Brock Turner is an odious criminal who committed a heinous act and deserves to go to prison for much longer than his six-month sentence requires. His trial confirmed that both racism and sexism continue to plague America’s criminal justice system, especially…

For better and for worse, Sanders made all the big decisions. Bernie Sanders and aides laugh at the idea that he’s damaging the party and hurting Hillary Clinton. | AP Photo There’s no strategist pulling the strings, and no collection of burn-it-all-down aides egging him on. At the heart of the rage…

When people learn that I want to replace the welfare state with a universal basic income, or UBI, the response I almost always get goes something like this: “But people will just use it to live off the rest of us!” “People will waste their lives!” Or, as they would have put it in a bygone age, a…

WASHINGTON — Senator Bernie Sanders met with President Obama on Thursday and said afterward that he would do everything within his power to stop Donald J. Trump from becoming president — and would work closely with Hillary Clinton to make that happen. After the meeting with Mr. Obama, which lasted…

British nightlife is beautiful. In its present-day form, it's a wonderful, if increasingly beleaguered , free-for-all of house parties , grown and sexy nights , night buses, night trains, Afrobeats, gabba, internet drugs, shufflers , 24-hour casinos, Irish pubs where you can belt out "Total Eclipse…

For more than a year, since even before Bernie Sanders announced he was running for president, Gustavo Ramirez has been evangelizing on behalf of the Vermont senator, building up a grassroots network of California lefties and activists to get behind the unlikely White House bid. His efforts started…

Tim McCarthy/Getty Images Y ou do not want to get on Taylor Swift’s bad side. Your tour may be canceled , or your romantic failures could be blasted on the radio , or you might have to work on a Sunday . So when the pop superstar decided to pull her entire catalog from Spotify in 2014, citing issues…

Overall, Stranger to Stranger is so concise and offers so damn much to hear in its brief course that Simon’s foibles don’t have a chance to overwhelm the enjoyment. Myrna Suarez / Concord Music Group I irritated some friends this week by opening a conversation, “Is Paul Simon the worst great…

Donald Trump, reading from a telepromper, delivers a speech following Tuesday’s primaries. Photograph by Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty If Donald Trump ever copped to having a speechwriter, he would surely have the best speechwriter, the very best. A quality speechwriter, the kind who writes speeches like…

Slug and Prof backstage / Photos by the author Sean “Slug” Daley might be the king of Minnesota hip-hop, but right now, his throne is a golf cart. It’s Sunday, May 29, and the 43-year-old rapper is driving around the sunny Minnesota State Fairgrounds, home of the ninth annual Soundset Festival.…

JUN, Spain — When José Antonio Rodríguez Salas’s daughter, Martina, was born in April, he — like many proud new parents — turned to social media to share the news. But Mr. Rodríguez Salas, the mayor of Jun, a small town nestled in the foothills outside Granada in southern Spain, did not post a…

Episode 215 H-Day Play Pause Category Infrastructure Date 06.07.16 Producer Add to Queue Remove from Queue Download The Swedish Tourist Association recently announced a new service called The Swedish Number . People who dial +46 771 793 336 will be connected with a random participating Swede. We…

A large road sign tells drivers where to change money on the border south of Newry.Photograph: Paul McErlane for the Guardian O n the pavement outside the Cahill Brothers shoe shop on Newry’s main shopping street, a young man is playing Irish folk songs on a tin whistle for spare change. Coins come…

A former Stanford swimmer who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman was sentenced to six months in jail because a longer sentence would have "a severe impact on him," according to a judge. At his sentencing Thursday, his victim read him a letter describing the "severe impact" the assault had on…

Last night , the Associated Press — on a day when nobody voted — surprised everyone by abruptly declaring the Democratic Party primary over and Hillary Clinton the victor. The decree, issued the night before the California primary in which polls show Clinton and Bernie Sanders in a very close race,…

Domino Park last week in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami. Florida may present the most punishing test of Donald J. Trump’s election strategy, as Hispanics there, including conservative-leaning Cuban-Americans, turn away from his candidacy. Scott McIntyre for The New York Times With Donald J.…

Voting in New Jersey and California Sam Hodgson for The New York Times Democrats will vote in six states on Tuesday, just hours after Hillary Clinton secured enough superdelegates, according to a survey by T he Associated Press , to make her the party’s presumptive presidential nominee. But the…

Image Comics In the wee hours of the morning after Halloween, 1988, a paper delivery girl named Erin sets out on her route in a sleepy Ohio town, autumn leaves crunching beneath the wheels of her bike as an odd red comet streaks through the sky. She soon encounters several older teenage boys dressed…