Mike Tyson is a polarizing man, from innocent street youth to vicious fighter, convicted sex offender, and now cartoon character with his role on Mike Tyson Murder Mysteries . It’s hard to say what was going on in his mind during his boxing heyday, especially when Tyson walked out to a nightmarish…

It’s unlikely we’ll get a song as singular as Kanye West’s “Ultralight Beam” anytime soon, so best to linger on it, feel out its grooves and curves, allow it to seep into the pores. Mr. West’s recent performance of it on “Saturday Night Live” captured its reverent tone well. He began singing through…

Justice Antonin Scalia, who died on Saturday at the age of 79, served on the Supreme Court for 30 years and made as big a mark on the court and on American law and politics as some of the chief justices under whom he served. It took about 10 minutes after the announcement of his death for the right…

From left, Tim Kingsbury, Régine Chassagne and Win Butler of Arcade Fire performing in New York in 2014. Chad Batka for The New York Times Long-shot wins, unscripted moments and strange celebrity interactions are among the best reasons to watch awards shows like the Grammys , which are on CBS on…

FOLLOW THE WEEK ON FACEBOOK This doesn't look good Edit Samsung warns customers not to discuss personal information in front of smart TVs February 9, 2015 Facebook.com/Samsung TV Samsung has confirmed that its "smart TV" sets are listening to customers' every word, and the company is warning…

IT HAS been 11 years since an American Supreme Court justice has died while on the bench. And the death of that judge, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, had much narrower political and legal repercussions than the surprise demise of Antonin Scalia, the court’s longest-serving justice and most acerbic…

Fred & Angi; The J Show; Eric & Kathy For weeks now, I have been haunted by FM morning radio. It all started at the end of 2015, with a fake letter to One Direction that was written by “Joey Fatone.” Do you remember that letter ? It was posted on Above Average , a site whose tagline reads “The…

Gil Faizon — né Gil Cosby — is an unlicensed doula who wears Velcro sneakers. Anytime he introduces himself, he caps it off with, “Charmed, I’m sure.” He’s always accompanied by his best friend, George St. Geegland, author of the unwritten 1971 novel “Rifkin’s Dilemma,” “a real ’70s novel about…

Step into Tareq Salahi’s house and you’ll pass a framed Washington Post article crowning him a 2009 Person of the Year. Take a right. There’s a photograph of him laughing with David Letterman on CBS’s Late Show . Keep walking. Eventually you’ll reach a poster-size print of the moment Tareq and his…

In Memoriam 1942 – 2013 “Roger Ebert loved movies.” RogerEbert.com Reviews Great Movies Chaz's Journal Blogs Far Flungers Channels Contributors Slender Man Nothing is scarier than bad filmmaking. Skate Kitchen A solid hangout movie as well as a band-of-buddies film. Other Reviews BlacKkKlansman A…

FIVE years after Western air power helped remove Muammar Qaddafi, the chances of another intervention in Libya are steadily increasing. Islamic State may be retreating in Iraq and under pressure in Syria, but in Libya it is a growing menace. At a meeting in Rome on February 2nd of the international…

By the time I hit my mid-twenties, after years of dating both inside and outside of the United States, I came to a terrible, lonesome conclusion: American men don’t find me attractive. The first time a guy actually asked me out, I thought he was messing with me. I was studying abroad in London, and…

This post has been updated. In the US, restaurant servers work under a very different pay system than most people. Beyond a small hourly rate, their employers don’t pay their wages—customers do. Essentially, these workers have dozens of different bosses each day that individually decide how they…

Getty Images Airbnb's efforts to become an “open and transparent” company might not quite line up with traditional definitions of transparency. A report released Wednesday suggests that Airbnb manipulated listing data in New York City prior to publicly releasing that data to regulators in December ,…

IT IS like a hash-induced hallucination: row upon row of lush, budding plants, tended by white-coated technicians who are bothered by the authorities only when it is time to pay their taxes. Cannabis once grew in secret, traded by murderous cartels and smoked by consumers who risked jail. Now,…

Welcome to Chaturbate, where live-cam performers engage in the wild and the weird. But watch it long enough and you realize that social media has created a whole new sexual persuasion. So, how “internet sexual” are you? By Emily Witt Photographs by Arko Datto On the computer a woman in north Florida…

FAITHFUL followers of Twitter believe that Jack Dorsey, one of the social network’s founders, is the only person capable of turning around the struggling firm. Mr Dorsey (pictured, during a recent Old Testament beard experiment) returned as its boss last year, taking over from Dick Costolo, who had…

Story highlights Donald Trump wins Republican primary in New Hampshire and leads national polls Stanley: Republican establishment is too divided to take on Trump Stanley: Trump doesn't care about issues that regular conservatives are fighting for Timothy Stanley is a historian and columnist for…

Bill Rebholz They were high school sweethearts, sort of: Britt and John met in middle school right outside of Houston, the kind of place where the person you end up marrying is someone you’ve known your whole life. They flirted later in the halls of one of those big Southern high schools that boasts…

Written by Amar Ediriwira Published on February 9, 2016 Category News Share 0 Share 0 “It’s become a nightmare now.” Veteran Australian record collector Trevor Cowling is having second thoughts about his lifetime collection of records. The former radio music director, 74, has been searching for a…

Kanye West doesn’t believe in yesterday. Living through his records may be the closest thing our generation gets to experiencing the constant future-shock of the Beatles between Rubber Soul and Let It Be . Each of the six left-field knockout studio albums that band released from 1965 through 1970…

Getty Images Day 1 : After inauguration, call Mexico about building that wall Day 2 : Commission presidential portrait. Make sure artist understands about the hair. Day 3 : Take down portraits of ex-presidents who were fat or sad Day 4 : Replace boring White House carpet with luxurious velvet Day 5…

An image from “That Dragon, Cancer,” a video game that mixes animation and magical realism to tell the story of a family’s profound loss. Numinous Games The “extra life” was a fixture of early video games, a reward for skilled players that was imbued with the language of reincarnation. Players would…

Despite shutdowns, crackdowns, and sanctions, Pyongyang’s methamphetamine is still flooding northeastern China. Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast HONG KONG — China has a major meth problem. The drug can be a pick-up, a pastime, or something that builds trust—or addiction. It mostly comes from…

Elena Scotti/FUSION Once again, we’re approaching the most American of holidays: Super Bowl Sunday. Amid all the keg buying and dip-recipe research, you may have missed an astounding piece of news last week, when Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning received a $2 million bonus for the team’s…

I’m 29 years old, and I’ve been on Snapchat for about a year now. I post fairly often (usually on my Story), and I get a decent amount of engagement from my friends. Quite honestly, up until Thanksgiving, I thought I was pretty good at Snapchat. Then I watched my little sister on Snapchat. This is…

The makers of Hitman want you to believe that this is a game about murdering people , but I think it might be more interesting. I think it's really a game about opening and closing doors. On the face of it, opening and closing doors sound a lot less fun than creeping around mansions and cruise…

Watching Keegan-Michael Key, 44, and Jordan Peele, 36, act feels a little like watching a pair of stage magicians at work. You know it's not real—and you can almost see the seams—but even after the trick is slowed down and explained, it still works on you. It's still magic. Since their show, Key and…

Congratulations, gamer girls—you’re officially at the top of the food chain when it comes to games. A new study released by the Entertainment Software Association has revealed that adult women now occupy the largest demographic in the gaming industry. Women over 18 made up a whopping 36 percent of…

You don’t have to show any skin to be sexually harassed — and you don’t even have to be human to be the subject of offensive, suggestive commentary, it seems. Deborah Harrison, an editorial writer in the Cortana division of Microsoft, told CNN that even female virtual assistants can’t escape the…

Malware. Blech! We hate malware. And so we should—deleting files, maliciously clogging up our desktops, turning our browsers into never-ending adverts. But it’s so boring and irritating these days. At least back in the 1980s and 1990s you could take a step back and admire both the technical and…

Animation by Jessica Tang. West: GVK/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images via Getty Images. Tweets: New York Magazine and Twitter. Welcome to Social Capital, a series devoted to analyzing the social-media presences of celebrities. You may have heard the news about Kanye West . He absolutely, positively does not…

“TO BE, or not to be together, that is the question,” tweeted the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, on February 2nd as he published a draft plan offering Britain new terms of membership of the European Union. David Cameron, who had hammered out the bargain with Mr Tusk, was clearly…

The inmate Jeremy Wilson during an interview Jan. 29 at Rikers Island. “There is so much misinformation about me,” Mr. Wilson said, “no one can say with absolute certainty who I am.” Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times He strolled into the police station in Chelsea on Jan. 4 wearing a Harvard…

Complexity, feature gaps, and bugs have crept in People think of Apple as a maker of excellent premium hardware. In fact, many reviewers regard Apple devices as the best you can buy. For instance, I’m on record as saying its most important product, the iPhone, is the best smartphone on the market .…

What is Playboy without naked women? It sounds a little bit like Car and Driver magazine without cars or drivers, and for readers who want only to gawk at the most intimate of female parts, it is just that. For everyone else, the makeover is subtler than you might expect. And frankly, the starkest…

Peter Zimbicki, a senior associate at BillFixers who negotiates better deals for customers (while also riding a hoverboard). Stacy Kranitz for The New York Times BRENTWOOD, Tenn. — Cable companies and mobile phone service providers now offer so many deals, options, add-ons and doodads that the sheer…

On Friday , The New York Times reported that officials examining whether Nicole Madison Lovell, 13, was killed by a Virginia Tech student she connected with using Kik, a free messaging app. Of course, worries over the power of technology are not new — many worried about the dangers of MySpace and…

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Donald J. Trump once boasted that he could someday be the only person to turn a profit running for president. He may be closer than anyone realizes. Mr. Trump’s campaign spent just $12.4 million in 2015, according to disclosures filed with the Federal Election Commission, millions…