Story highlights Police killed two people and seriously wounded four at Danziger Bridge Five officers, charged in 2010, received sentences that range from three to 12 years They were originally sentenced to six to 65 years, but convictions were overturned (CNN) Five former New Orleans police…

This article is part of PS2 Week, a full week celebrating the 2000 PlayStation 2 console. To see other articles, go here. /// In the men’s restroom of a New York diner, a dazed man stands over a corpse. He knows he killed the person but insists, to no one other than himself, that someone else was…

Elena Scotti/FUSION An hour's drive from Wichita, Kansas, in a little town called Potwin, there is a 360-acre piece of land with a very big problem . The plot has been owned by the Vogelman family for more than a hundred years, though the current owner, Joyce Taylor née Vogelman, 82, now rents it…

The that came out in 1997 isn’t the that’s remembered as so influential today. Today is known for its brooding, stoic antihero, its dark themes of industrialization and the end of the world, its archetypical characters and its iconic, badass villain. This is cited as helping to codify the “cool”…

________________ Dan Boeckner doesn’t stay in one place for very long these days. When I reach him on a Wednesday in the middle of March, the singer-songwriter has just crossed from one side of Canada to other – from Vancouver Island to Montreal, to be specific. The Quebec city is where he’s lived…

Melissa McCarthy in The Heat . Photo: Twentieth Century Fox Next month will mark the fifth anniversary of the release of Bridesmaids , the modestly budgeted smash that proved a comedy driven by women could hold its own in the summer marketplace — and, in the process, do wonders for the careers of…

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This article originally appeared on VICE UK Sex is great. Adding more partners into the mix should, on paper, make it even better. As someone already involved in the fetish world, I've watched the Tinder "dating apocalypse" and the " 50 Shades of Grey effect" collide as people younger than your…

​I learned very early on in my music career: never read the comment section. Or rather: only look at YouTube comments, Instagram comments, Twitter mentions, or blog comments with a discerning eye while wearing my toughest, full-body armor. While these can be places where fans say things like "Yaaas,…

This is Tom. He's a 26-year-old cocktail bartender and self-described writer from the City of Norwich, and he is asking you for £1,300 to help him find love. Yep, the beardy tattooed bloke is crowdfunding to pay for his dates. BUT WHY? Well apparently he's been unlucky in love, and with £1,300 he'll…

This article originally appeared on VICE UK. Spend too much time on the internet and you'll end up thinking young men today fall into one of two camps: hypersensitive puppy dogs trying to fund-raise their way to true love, or those guys who think flirting means getting shitfaced and screaming rape…

Eric Spitznagel | Old Records Never Die: One Man’s Quest for His Vinyl and His Past | Plume | April 2016 | 8 minutes (2,029 words) Motivated by a potent mix of seller’s regret and old-dude nostalgia, a journalist sets off in search of the vinyl of his youth. And not just copies of albums he…

Unlike Justin Trudeau last fall, the NDP couldn't get their escalator to work. The first thing anyone saw walking into the Shaw Centre this weekend was a broken escalator and a polite request to put up with the pains of "modernization." There was no better metaphor for the state of the NDP in 2016.…

When you're young and broke, society gives unwritten permission to live like a dirtbag for a while. You can sleep on a buddy's couch, stay a few extra years in mom and dad's basement, spend a couple more months living with your ex than you should have, or maybe even briefly engage in the…

Detroit's historic Masonic Temple reeked of pot, sweat, flat soda, and Speed Stick deodorant on the night of February 21. The funk of the juggalo had choked the air of the venue that—thanks to its gold ceilings and red carpets —looked like it should have been hosting a performance of Swan Lake ,…

Suzanne Tenner Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone in Nina . When writer-director Cynthia Mort spent a day with Nina Simone in the early '90s, she didn't dare imagine that the legendary singer would be the subject of her debut feature film...or that the film would become an agonizing, incendiary calamity.…

Then One/WIRED When Facebook News Feed guru Will Cathcart took the stage at F8 to talk about news, the audience was packed. Some followed along on Twitter. Others streamed the session online. Journalists, developers, and media types all clamored to catch a glimpse of “Creating Value for News…

I am in the strange position of knowing that I am on the ‘Kill List’. I know this because I have been told, and I know because I have been targeted for death over and over again. Four times missiles have been fired at me. I am extraordinarily fortunate to be alive. I don’t want to end up a…

Magdelena Tworkowska/Getty Images. When I was five, I watched a neighbourhood boy tear Lanette Ariana limb from limb. I didn’t scream or stop him. I just wept over my beloved, dismembered Cabbage Patch Kid. Once I calmed down, my dad told me not to take shit from any man and toughen up, lest I be…

Led Zeppelin, in 1968. Photograph by Dick Barnatt/Redferns/Getty Legal cases involving claims of musical plagiarism often lead to strange eruptions of musicological discourse in the halls of justice. Not long ago, the heirs of Marvin Gaye alleged that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams’s song…

I used to joke that only men with depression were attracted to me. It was the only experience I'd had, every long-term boyfriend and even the short-term flings. I'd never dated anyone who hadn't been on antidepressants, or spent time in a psychiatrist's office. That dark, brooding, introspective…

Leon Bridges and Andra Day, photographed at Amoeba Music in Los Angeles. Photograph by Jason Bell. Despite what viewers may have thought after the 58th annual Grammy Awards, soloists Leon Bridges and Andra Day (who were both up for best R&B album) did not materialize out of nowhere. Since the…

Steve Miller, Dan Auerbach. Photo: Getty Images You haven’t made it in rock and roll until you’ve ticked off The Black Keys, so congratulations, Steve Miller; this, and not the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction you so despised, will be your legacy. Last Friday, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney…

“It’s funny, I remember loading Zelda.com, and Zelda.com was definitely a porn website,” Merritt Kopas, author of Internet Murder Revenge Fantasy , recalled. “This was like, early 90’s, so I’m sure Nintendo bought it back, but [it used to be] a porn site. ” It’s different in 2016, of course.…

When Hollywood writers went on strike in late 2007, a curious thing happened. The very reason for the strike—studio producers’ unwillingness to upgrade the pay scale for digital content—led to one of the major sea changes in recent memory. With the writers’ union refusing to write for TV and film,…

Tim Rogers/ Fusion MEDELLIN, Colombia— I hate shopping. Especially for clothes. So when the first lady of the adult webcam industry invited me to tag along on a shopping trip to buy clothes with two of her top models, I immediately said yes. Shirely Lara isn't a typical porn executive. As the…

I was born in 1980, so am among perhaps the last generation of American males who remember sneaking a peak at a Playboy. The women featured were beautiful and they showed a lot, but not everything. Playboy never revealed the sexual act. I can only imagine how many hours of sex the average male today…

I try not to pick at my lip, a habit from my childhood that re-appears when I am deeply rattled. The host calls my name. I trudge to the stage, like a child called in from the yard for supper. My mouth is dry. The 14 jokes on the page seem impossibly stupid in the bright light. I clear my throat.…

Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see the full threads. School Days This week, we kicked…

John Colapinto Photo: Madison McGaw/BFA.com John Colapinto is a true renegade . In a sea of politically correct novels written by prudish women and castrated men, he had the courage to write Undone , a novel about a man who has a fetish for teenage girls. Getting his novel published wasn’t easy.…

Steve Miller‘s gripes against the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — for which the rocker was inducted Friday night — extended past the podium into the backstage area later that night. “The whole process is unpleasant,” Miller told reporters. “The whole process needs to be changed from the top to the…

This is the first in a series profiling some of Vancouver’s best independent bookstores and the book sellers who keep them up and running. The Paper Hound bookstore is snuggled in the bottom of a building that was once a Victorian hotel at 344 West Pender Street. You’ll know it by the sign featuring…

Being Nixon: A Man Divided by Evan Thomas Nixon’s Nuclear Specter: The Secret Alert of 1969, Madman Diplomacy, and the Vietnam War by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball 1. In the course of his twenty-eight years in politics and twenty more in active retirement, Richard M. Nixon uttered a great many…

“Boyhood” was filmed over twelve years; in the course of the nearly three-hour feature, the actors age along with their characters. Photograph by Dan Winters To get to the place where Richard Linklater was shooting his new film, you had to travel a short distance that seemed far: past the Barton…

Richard Linklater’s new movie is set at a Texas college. At his best, he doesn’t really direct a film so much as host it. Illustration by Mark Todd If you can’t think of a good way to kick off your movie, how about this? Take a handsome young buck, put him at the wheel of an Oldsmobile coupe, and…

It would be a small wedding. Nothing gaudy or over-the-top. Maybe we'd even elope. Admittedly, we'd only been texting for 24 hours, but I was sure this was The One. Advertisement It began at a celeb-studded non-event in Beverly Hills the evening before with a few other journalist friends. All pomp…

Dylan Howard was the volatile actor's confidant until the National Enquirer editor began investigating rumors that Sheen was HIV positive. Then it was war. And that’s a story, told here for the first time, almost too crazy to believe. This story first appeared in the April 22 issue of The Hollywood…

Louis C.K.’s “Horace and Pete” presented itself as an experiment, an exercise in optimism even in its darkest notes. Still from “Horace and Pete” The sorrowful bit of music that plays at the end of each “Horace and Pete” episode, written for the Web series by Paul Simon, begins with a little dark…