Dating “often feels like the worst, most precarious form of contemporary labor: an unpaid internship,” Moira Weigel writes. Illustration by Alain Pilon Suzanne, a young woman in San Francisco, met a man—call him John—on the dating site OKCupid. John was attractive and charming. More notably, he…

From left, Ryan Gosling, Daisy Tahan, Angourie Rice and Russell Crowe in Shane Black’s “The Nice Guys.” Daniel McFadden/Warner Bros. Entertainment The climax of Shane Black’s “The Nice Guys” involves a hectic, gunfire-riddled chase through a crowded Los Angeles hotel in pursuit of a film canister…

Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters Share Share Things You Can Get in India With a Missed Call Want to transfer funds from your account? Give your bank a missed call. Want to hear Bollywood music? Dial a number and hang up. Making a missed call by calling a number and letting it ring is a popular way of…

Chance events play a much larger role in life than many people once imagined. Most of us have no difficulty recognizing luck when it’s on conspicuous display, as when someone wins the lottery. But randomness often plays out in subtle ways, and it’s easy to construct narratives that portray success…

I am terrible at sharing the bed. When my boyfriend travels out of town, my first thought is how much space I will take up in the bed while he’s gone. I know people who claim to sleep on their same side when their partners are gone, the place reserved for the body of their loved one like the seat at…

GOTHENBURG, Sweden — Arturo Perez used to come home frazzled from his job as a caregiver at the Svartedalens nursing home. Eight-hour stretches of tending to residents with senility or Alzheimer’s would leave him sapped with little time to spend with his three children. But life changed when…

level 1 HeyNomad Massachusetts 582 points · 2 years ago Wow. Thanks so much for this thorough write-up. I think I got most of this from watching along or accounts after the fact, but seeing the whole chronology, etc., really drives it home. This is so outrageous. I really hope the rumor of Nina…

PLAYGIRL If the success of the Magic Mike and Fifty Shades of Grey franchises have taught us anything, it’s that women ~love~ spending their free time watching nearly nude men perform for the camera. In fact, it’s safe to say some women can’t get enough . And yet, despite this demand and pop…

Political documentary ANTHONY WEINER, in case you did not know, is a retired congressman infamous for sending photographs of his genitals to women he had never met. The other thing you may know about Mr Weiner is that he is married to Huma Abedin, a long-time adviser to Hillary Clinton. What a…

Bernie Sanders’s resolve to continue his primary campaign despite delegate math that is heavily against him has many wondering whether his supporters will ultimately fall in line behind Hillary Clinton when the time comes. Photograph by Li Muzi Xinhua / eyevine / Redux In many hard-fought political…

Ever since Trevor Noah was announced as Jon Stewart’s successor as host of “The Daily Show” he has heard the same echoing line from Stewart supporters: “I served with Jon Stewart. I knew Jon Stewart. Jon Stewart was a friend of mine. Trevor Noah, you’re no Jon Stewart.” Channeling our own inner…

Illustration by Jean Jullien There are only a few television commercials from my childhood that remain vivid in my memory. Some of them stuck because they were selling products I wanted. At the top of my list was the Snoopy Sno Cone Machine: you stuffed ice in the plastic doghouse roof, then turned…

Share 21. May 2016 How close does personalized online advertising get to us as our real persons? Technology critic Sara M. Watson describes a disconcerting encounter with her other ME. By Sara M. Watson She is between the ages of 25–34. Or she’s under 32. She is a millennial. She’s inferred married.…

Ahead of the animated series' 100th episode on May 22, the executive producers and execs behind Loren Bouchard's dark Fox comedy recount its original 'Hannibal'-esque pitch and the "word-of-mouth" buzz that turned a funny show from fringe to one gunning for 'Family Guy' longevity. Since the January…

Uber and Lyft suspended operations in Austin, Texas, on May 9th, two days after voters rejected Proposition 1. Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty My neighbor Lisa’s minivan, a pearly blue 2008 Chrysler Town & Country, has a hundred and eighty-four thousand miles on it, reflecting the fact that in a…

CBS Wednesday night's Survivor finale brought news of next season's theme : Millennials vs. Gen X. That may sound like the title of a solid SNL sketch, but it's very real. Don't believe me? Watch the trailer: The season hasn't even started airing yet, but the trash talk is already in full swing.…

Chance the Rapper “Coloring Book” For the last few years, Kanye West’s most visible disciple has been Drake, who mainlined his melody-first approach, his arriviste swagger, and most crucial, his emotional vulnerability. If Mr. West innovated by hinting at the chinks in his armor, Drake succeeded by…

Anheuser-Busch has announced that, in honor of “the most patriotic summer that this generation has ever seen,” it will temporarily rename Budweiser. Photograph by Peter John Dickson / Getty I happen to have bought an eighteen-pack of Budweiser cans on the day before Anheuser-Busch announced a…

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Over the past year, Cali The Producer has made a name for himself as one of the biggest hitmakers in the world. The 20-year-old Linz, Austria, native—whose real name is Sebastian Fuchs—has been credited with producing a litany of smash singles, including Justin Bieber’s “What Do You Mean?” , Zayn’s…

May 11, 2016 Design and graphics by MARTIN FROBISHER and ELI MURRAY Times Staff Police come to shoo away panhandlers, referee parking disputes and check on foul-mouthed teenagers. They are called to arrest the man who drinks a 98-cent iced tea without paying and capture the customer who joyrides on…

On May 10 at 5:54 p.m., Justin Bieber posted a selfie-less block of text on Instagram. "If you happen to see me out somewhere know that I'm not gonna take a picture I'm done taking pictures. It has gotten to the point that people won't even say hi to me or recognize me as a human, I feel like a zoo…

[Diamond, Fat Joe, Showbiz, Lord Finesse, Buckwild, A.G. Not pictured: O.C.] How a 30 year friendship in the Bronx, NY manifested into a legendary hip-hop crew A Tribe Called Quest’s Low End Theory . The Fugees’ The Score . Dr. Dre’s 2001 . Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready To Die and Life After Death . Big…

Interim Georgian President Nino Burjanadze, right, and the President of the US Committee on NATO, Bruce Jackson, talk to the press at a joint press conference after their meeting in Tbilisi in November 2003. Photo by BESO GULASHVILI/AFP/Getty Images Last September, a man named Bruce Jackson hosted a…

Donald J. Trump had barely met Rowanne Brewer Lane when he asked her to change out of her clothes. Donald was having a pool party at Mar-a-Lago. There were about 50 models and 30 men. There were girls in the pools, splashing around. For some reason Donald seemed a little smitten with me. He just…

Megyn Kelly interviews Donald Trump at Trump Tower. Photograph by Eric Liebowitz / FOX via Getty Images "You are so powerful," Megyn Kelly, of Fox, said to Donald Trump, with a note of wonder in her voice, as she interviewed him for her special on Tuesday night. They were sitting in a conference…

Sergey Lazarev’s loss to a Ukrainian at the Eurovision Song Contest has outraged Russians. PHOTOGRAPH BY VYACHESLAV PROKOFYEV / TASS VIA GETTY On Saturday, three people died and thirty were injured during a gun battle over control of a cemetery in Moscow. Just a few hours later, the Russian pop star…

80 There’s a brief moment in the first hour of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End where Nathan Drake, a retired treasure hunter, combs through the artifacts from his adventures that he keeps in his attic. The space is ruined with meticulous clutter—each individual relic a callback to some grand…

I know few people who consider dating fun. I don't need to list the reasons why; I've never used Tinder, but I know it's a bad, upsetting place. How it got this way, though, is another matter. While many articles lament the end of courtship, traditional dating, etc., few explain what "traditional…

Game Info Platform PS4 Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment Developer Naughty Dog Release Date May 10, 2016 By the time I reached the closing credits of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End , I never wanted to set foot into an ancient tomb or long-lost treasure trove with Nathan Drake again. It's not that…

To perform well, Internet services like Apple Music need constant tinkering based on how people are using them. Photograph by Chris Ratcliffe / Bloomberg via Getty On April 28, 2003, Apple launched the iTunes Music Store, saving the music industry from the scourge of piracy while creating a large…

Some thoughts on the new Radiohead album, A Moon Shaped Pool : 1) “True Love Waits” sounds like a beautiful sculptural interpretation of an object that is “True Love Waits, the final song on a Radiohead album.” If this bird is the unrecorded song “True Love Waits” (the lyrics, chords, melody): …and…

In the animated TV show Rick and Morty , there is a car-security system that keeps passengers safe by inflicting psychological warfare on, and then destroying, anyone who so much as approaches the vehicle. That fictional system, as anyone who’s ever woken up to a car alarm blasting at 3 a.m. knows,…

Jerry Rawlings as military leader. This is an edited version of a keynote address delivered at the Digital Next conference in Bogota, Colombia on May 4. When I was in high school in the early 1990s, my family lived in Ghana. At that time, there were only a few hundred thousand telephone lines in the…