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Image courtesy of A-Trak/Instagram We keep the computers ‘putin, so support real, independent music journalism by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Patrick Johnson wants you to rejoice:
As a food writer, I've seen my fair share of food trends become genuinely divisive in their public reception. Not even a month ago, "butter boards" had the internet in an absolute war over whether the
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After an uproar, DoorDash is changing its tipping policy. What would really be nice is some worker protection laws. Credit...Benjamin Norman for The New York Times DoorDash is the most popular food delivery service in the country, a freakishly fast-growing unicorn valued at $7 billion just six years…
This is a blessed age for food in America—for dining out and cooking in; for recipe books, and TV shows, and recipe books that become TV shows ; for the celebrity chefs who occupy seats in the cultura
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Gopuff, which aims to deliver goods to people in 30 minutes or less, operates in 1,200 cities in North America and Europe. It also has retail locations in cities like New York.Credit...Gabby Jones for The New York Times From its beginning in 2013, Gopuff aimed to do rapid delivery differently. The…
You fucked up real good , kiddo. Twitter is a disaster clown car company that is successful despite itself, and there is no possible way to grow users and revenue without making a series of enormous c
“I can say antisemitic things and Adidas can’t drop me,” the artist formerly known as Kanye West proclaimed on Drink Champs just over a week ago. “Now what?” he rhetorically asked, with the sneering a
Snask on at stage at Paradigms 2022. Bild: Frontify Swedish design studio Snask is famous for its crazy original branding work – and one of the most-applauded speakers at creative festivals (even with
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One brisk morning in late September, as I arrived still a little drunk to a 9 a.m. wine tasting, I thought back to the previous evening. A cruise ship employee had led me off the vessel and to an unde
I’ve been chatting with Suda51 for the past hour. The conversation hasn’t been about any of his past works but, instead, his favorite game. Among the many anecdotes Goichi Suda told me about meeting D
James Foley, director of At Close Range and After Dark, My Sweet, saw Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross on Broadway. While he thought it was good, it didn’t impress him as much as seeing Lauren Bacall in th
T hirty Thirty years ago this week, the original Mortal Kombat hit arcades. That game not only capitalized on the arcade fighting game craze spurred by Street Fighter 2 — it spawned a franchise that h
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“All they do is eat and shit! How many times do I have to kill this game before it will die?!’” This is what one senior executive at video company EA Games apparently snapped in the late 90s, accordin
Uber announced they were testing out in-car tablets for vehicles in select cities, and the company announced Wednesday it plans to add ads to those tablets as well. Photo: Scott Olson (Getty Images) I
Everett Yang was sorting through the files on their computer when they came across an ancient artefact. It was a folder filled with almost a hundred moving images; a buffet of emotions that Yang had c
Photo: gilaxia/Getty Images Touring was a minefield before COVID; the pandemic just threw a few thousand more mines onto the field. Anyone within spitting distance of live music over the past two year
In the end, neither statement was fully realized. More than two years later, in August 2022, the Wing announced it was shutting down for good. It had reopened six locations after COVID, but the “opera
Magazine For Maggie Haberman, owning the Trump beat has defined her career for better — and for worse. "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America," which comes out Tuesday
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Updated at 11:30 a.m. ET on June 21, 2022 T he 12th Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense operates a dozen central storage facilities for nuclear weapons. Known as “Object S” sites and s
Over the past six days, Ukraine’s armed forces have broken through the Russian lines in the northeastern corner of the country, swept eastward, and liberated town after town in what had been occupied
Last December, Canon announced that they would be shuttering development and production of the DSLR sometime in the next few years. “The market needs are acceleratingly shifting to mirrorless cameras,
Yesterday, the world got a look inside Elon Musk’s phone. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is currently in litigation with Twitter and trying to back out of his deal to buy the platform and take it private. A
Occasionally, something happens that is so blatantly and obviously misguided that trying to explain it rationally makes you sound ridiculous. Such is the case with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’s
M eg Lethem was working at her bakery job one morning in Boston when she had an epiphany. Tasked with choosing the day’s soundtrack, she opened Spotify , then flicked and flicked, endlessly searching
Friends, rivals and enemies took their seats in the Grand Kremlin Palace as Vladimir Putin gathered the country’s elite to formalise Russia’s illegal annexation of four occupied regions in Ukraine. Th
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If an American president announced a major speech, booked the networks for 8 p.m., and then disappeared until the following morning, the analysis would be immediate and damning: chaos, disarray, indec
Russian Tank Depot I can only make an assumption, in the spirit of the same Russian propaganda and in a language they understand, that Putin is a sent Cossack, a puppet of the West, staged in order to
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The people here are young and friendly and full of hope. And why shouldn’t they be? For one month, they get to live in a mansion in Beverly Hills (Zillow estimate: $12.9 million). It’s not just any ma
A Wegmans store in Montvale, N.J., in 2020.Credit...Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Citing losses, the supermarket chain Wegmans announced that it had halted the use of its self-checkout app in which customers scanned their groceries as they shopped. The company did not specify the amount of losses…
Rumbling down a two-lane highway in her hefty white Land Rover, Björk is chatting away in meandering tribute to Iceland’s volcanic landscape when a digger truck lumbers into view. The unexpected obsta
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