Men of Steel Lin-Manuel Miranda brought hip-hop to Broadway and made it a smash success. Chance the Rapper met Kanye West and, well, you know the rest. For the 'Hamilton' creator and Chicago’s next superstar MC, it’s all in a day’s work. Interview by Nadeska Alexis Photography by Andrew Cutraro This…

Getty Images On Monday Claire L. Evans and Jona Bechtolt, the artistic and romantic partners who make up the electro band Yacht, claimed that a sex tape they had made had been stolen and leaked. Across several social media posts—mostly on Facebook —they announced that to take control of the…

Jay Z’s “100th problem” is a problem facing men worldwide M aybe the most intriguing thing about Beyonce’s Lemonade album is that in listening to it and seeing it — if only because Beyonce is unequivocally one of the most powerful pop culture icons of modern times — we have to assume her narrative…

I have been a Republican as long as I can remember. Joining the Grand Old Party seemed like a natural choice for someone like me who fled the Soviet Union as a boy and came to Los Angeles with his mother and grandmother in 1976. Refugees from communism, whether from Russia or Cuba, generally oppose…

When my five siblings and I discovered our father's old, clunky VHS recorder as young kids in the early 90s, we were overjoyed. The camera was massive, and I would constantly groan about weight making my 8-year-old neck and shoulders sore. Despite the heftiness of the thing, we loved using it.…

The future is dire, the past a blur and the present heartbroken yet hinting at possibilities on Radiohead’s “A Moon Shaped Pool,” its ninth studio album and perhaps its darkest statement — though the one with the band’s most pastoral surface. Radiohead worries throughout the album: about…

“Every day, for 40 fucking years, one of you has stopped me on the street and said, ‘You talkin’ to me?’” groused Robert De Niro at a recent Q & A at the Tribeca Film festival reuniting the makers of “Taxi Driver”. Martin Scorsese, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster, Cybil Shepherd and screenwriter Paul…

Cody Spafford found both solace and redemption in the kitchen of Seattle’s most celebrated restaurant. What turned a promising chef into a bank robber? The sun had set on Thursday, April 3, 2014, by the time Renee Erickson stepped onto the patio behind the Walrus and the Carpenter in search of news.…

By the time I walked down the aisle — or rather, into a judge’s chambers — in 2010, at the age of 35, I had lived 14 independent, early-adult years that my mother had spent married. I had made friends and fallen out with friends, had moved in and out of apartments, had been hired, fired, promoted,…

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It was a chilly afternoon in July 2010, and Stephen Farrell, a computer scientist from Trinity College Dublin, found himself surrounded by reindeer. Thousands of reindeer. Farrell had just arrived at Skuolla, a Swedish village just north of the Arctic circle. Tonight, his hosts, a group of…

Jacqui met Bob Lambert at an animal-rights protest in 1984, when she was twenty-two. Their son was born the next year. Illustration by Alex Williamson / Clockwise from Top: Keld Navntoft / AFP / Getty; Graham Turner / Keystone / Getty (London Police); William Lovelace / Express / Getty (Margaret…

This article reflects a revised number for the FBI personnel working on the Clinton email case. Correction at conclusion of story. Hillary Clinton, who at the time was selected to be secretary of state, checks her BlackBerry on an elevator at the U.S. Capitol in the District in January 2009. (Chip…

L ast November, Meg Muñoz went to Los Angeles to speak at the annual West Coast conference of Amnesty International. She was nervous. Three months earlier, at a meeting attended by about 500 delegates from 80 countries, Amnesty voted to adopt a proposal in favor of the “ full decriminalization of…

A special-forces officer stands on top of a building showing the portraits of Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu. Photograph by Murad Sezer / Reuters In early 2012, I went to see Ahmet Davutoğlu, who was then Turkey’s Foreign Minister, at the Willard…

In honor of The Nice Guys , we're kicking off a month of weekly spotlight articles celebrating Shane Black and the subgenres visited by his latest film. Shane Black began writing about old guys when he was really young. Though his first screenplay, Shadow Company – a supernatural thriller set in…

CENTRAL banks have gone to extraordinary lengths to get their slumping economies moving again: cutting interest rates to zero (and beyond) and buying vast amounts of government debt. Yet as the rich world continues to stumble along in a world of low inflation and weak growth, despite rock-bottom…

by Andrea Swensson · November 13, 2015 Interview Anthony Newes and Brendan Kelly of Bones and Beeker (Publicity photo by Jules Ameel) Sponsor Sponsor With their debut album out today on Wax Poetics, I had a chance to sit down recently with the two men behind the intriguing, genre-bending, insanely…

Gaining perspective from the world beyond web design, we’re reminded that work is not an end in itself. Instead we can each define for ourselves the place of work in our lives. In Issue 5 On Career, Identity, Work Ricky Scott is a pitmaster in a place called Hell’s Half Acre, South Carolina. He’s…

Britney Spears performing at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, N.Y., in 2000. Credit G. Paul Burnett/The New York Times By and Joe Coscarelli LAS VEGAS — The disturbing images seem so distant now: the pop-star-turned-cautionary tabloid tale — head shorn, face twisted, umbrella gripped like a police…

Photo courtesy of Ricky Comuniello J-Zone is one of my favorite people to interview in Hip-Hop. His honesty and candidness is refreshing in today’s synthetic society. J-Zone the musician keeps it as real as J-Zone the man. Since coming out of retirement in 2013 J-Zone has not only produced more…

11:47 am ET By Maggie Haberman and Ashley Parker Donald Trump Discusses How He’ll Select a Running Mate 11:47 am ET By Maggie Haberman and Ashley Parker Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president, endorsed Donald J. Trump at a news…

With four shows only, some of Vancouver’s best lawyers take on one of musical theatre’s peppiest shows: Hairspray the Musical. Danielle Lemon takes on the iconic role of Tracy Turnblad in the Lawyer Show’s production of Hairspray. Vancity Buzz had the opportunity to ask Lemon about the origin of the…

President Obama’s and Larry Wilmore’s roasts at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner contained some of the year’s sharpest political speech. PHOTOGRAPH BY NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP / Getty At some point soon after Donald J. Trump slid down that infamous escalator and into the anxious arms of the…

The murky history of moderation, and how it’s shaping the future of free speech Julie Mora-Blanco remembers the day, in the summer of 2006, when the reality of her new job sunk in. A recent grad of California State University, Chico, Mora-Blanco had majored in art, minored in women’s studies, and…

‘I t’s coming,” said the woman beside me, her face flushed beneath her flowing white hair. The long rectangle of the open hangar doors seemed to thrum, space waiting to be filled. And then, slowly, unstoppably, the plane nosed into view — a giant T, a giant R, a U and an M and a P, the plane…

Damon Winter/The New York Times Gail Collins : Arthur, lately we’ve been starting our conversations by predicting the next primary winners. If you have a more innovative answer than Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, tell me instantly. Otherwise I’m declaring a primary prediction truce. Arthur Brooks…

Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. You don’t always hear the bubble burst. Often, it’s more a gradual escaping of air, signaled by nothing more than the occasional queasy feeling you bat away: One house for sale on the block, oh well. Two, three—maybe just a robust…

The paradox of the coming “cashless economy” is that it uses and stores ever more paper money. Photograph by Mark Wilson / Getty Never has it been easier to spend your money, if you should happen to have some. The press of a button, the swipe of a card, or the wave of a phone, and it’s done.…

Trump victory party, New Hampshire, February 2016. In the crowd: Rich, a former submariner (in camo); a great-grandmother named Diana Ross (Blossom hat); the author (pixie cut, no socks). “THE FED OWNS COWS!” a protester bellowed at me as I moved blindly toward the doors of a Donald Trump rally. It…

Shawn Lee There are systemic failures that account for the legions of black men who end up in prison: endemic poverty, inadequate education, insufficient mental health services, over-policing of black communities, and racial profiling. But rarely is there a personal story that so accurately…

Operation Trump Inside the most unorthodox campaign in political history. Photo-Illustration by Bobby Doherty On the afternoon of March 15, as voters across five states streamed to the polls, Donald Trump’s campaign advisers gathered by the pool at Mar-a-Lago, the billionaire’s private club in Palm…

Blockchain is the technology that underpins bitcoinPhotograph: George Frey/Getty Images The UK government is exploring using the blockchain technology that underpins the bitcoin currency to increase efficiency in the distribution of taypayers’ money such as grants, a minister said on Tuesday. A…

SMB3 ’s entire development team consisted of just eleven people: Miyamoto and Tezuka as directors and designers, four additional designers, four programmers, and Koji Kondo as composer. During SMB3 ’s two years of development, Miyamoto’s days at the office had no definite start or end time, and he…