Stephen Cone Stephen Cone Stephen Cone is a Chicago-based filmmaker whose films include Princess Cyd (BFI London Film Festival, BAMcinemaFest) and Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (BAMcinemaFest, Maryland Film Festival), both of which are currently streaming on Netflix, as well as the Outfest-winning,…

On Monday, Donald Trump held a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he merrily repeated a woman in the crowd who called Ted Cruz a pussy. Twenty-four hours later, Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primary in a landslide. I'm not here to clutch my pearls over Trump's vulgarity; what was…

I don’t want to pick a side, I want everybody to enjoy my music By RAC I started writing this as a reply to a tweet and realized that I have a lot to say about song premieres. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, please read the original article ) I hate premieres. Specifically, the…

If you’re a blogger or publicist, chances are you know all about premieres by now. But just in case, I’ll try summarize it as best as I can: An artist has an unreleased song Either they, or a publicist they hire, reaches out to a blog to see if they’ll be the first to debut that song The artist then…

Somewhere, on an NSA server in Utah, there sits an email from Warren Ellis threatening to strangle me to death with my own intestines. Our all-caching surveillance state is something that might have been thought up by Ellis himself. A writer of novels, comics, essays, and movies starring a…

It “can be quite painful to discover how hooked we’ve become to our digital lives,” David M. Levy writes in “Mindful Tech.” PHOTOGRAPH BY OLIVER MUNDAY Last month, shortly before five in the afternoon on Christmas Day, a man from Indiana fell to his death from atop an ocean lookout at Sunset Cliffs,…

Harvey Levin, TMZ’s founder, leaving an L.A. gym. TMZ resembles an intelligence agency as much as a news organization. Photograph by Peter Bohler for The New Yorker In the early-morning hours of February 15, 2014, Ray Rice and his fiancée, Janay Palmer, stepped into an elevator at the Revel hotel…

We all have that friend: the beautiful, intelligent, driven woman who—like Katherine Heigl in every rom-com—can't find a decent date. Every guy she goes out with is an asshole; she consistently dates "below" her league, and she's on the verge of giving up on a committed relationship altogether. Not…

Playboy The problem of where to put all the Playboys was new to Jerome Huffor, the magazine buyer at Book People, one of the nation’s largest independent bookstores. After all, in the 36 years Book People has held court in downtown Austin, Playboy had always been, well, nude. “I haven’t seen the…

Short Profile Name: Wesley Wales Anderson DOB: 1 May 1969 Place of Birth: Houston, Texas, USA Occupation: Director Mr. Anderson, do you see your films as self-contained worlds where you are in control of everything? That’s probably true. I think there is some psychological thing where some artists…

Who knew a logo could cause such controversy? The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new official design, which generated strong negative reactions this week, is part of a larger rebranding effort that the museum says is meant to signal a more welcoming, accessible, current institution. “It’s the right…

ABC For 20 seasons , The Bachelor has captivated audiences with its romantic idealism, glamorous locales, and—particularly in recent years—campy self-awareness. With diversity? Not so much. Every Bachelor and Bachelorette to date has been white , although there has been one Latino Bachelor, Juan…

Day 2 - 02/09/16 Hate Trump? Just Wait Until 2020. Kevin Baker: Everybody has his own golden age. For Republicans, it’s usually some vague period before 1965, or maybe the Reagan era. For Democrats, increasingly, it’s the Bill Clinton years. And for Karl Rove, it’s when Bill McKinley was president…

Opinion polls show that Britons are divided in a referendum on European Union membership, although most voters have not focused yet on the issue. Francois Lenoir/Reuters Leaders of the European Union nations will meet on Thursday and Friday in Brussels in an effort to agree on changes to rules…

Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson reunite in Stiller’s new film. Illustration by Ben Kirchner Fifteen years have passed since “Zoolander”—fifteen summers, with the length of fifteen long winters! How we have ached to see once more those noble features. And here they are, in “Zoolander 2,” bearded, sadder,…

Yet today, you’re a conservative icon, and federalist societies abound on ­university campuses, and originalism and textualism are no longer marginal. Do you feel like you’re winning or losing the battle for constitutional interpretation? I don’t know how much progress I’ve made on originalism.…

Jimmy Fallon, left, and Donald J. Trump during a “Tonight Show” skit. Douglas Gorenstein/NBC In all of political comedy, there may be one person who truly understands Donald J. Trump. And that person is a dog. In “Triumph’s Election Special 2016” on Hulu, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog — the…

In news that will surprise no one except (maybe?) hapless record executives and big-corporation streaming services, if you make something difficult or near-impossible to access, the internet will just find it somewhere else! Kanye West’s The Life Of Pablo has gone from a Tidal-streaming exclusive…

I don’t quite remember what it’s like to wake up on Earth. Five months after ‘landing on Mars’, my day begins in a white dome in the middle of a red lava field, and I wonder: do we have enough power to turn on the heat? Will the weather let us suit up and check the greenhouses? Are my air fans going…

Photo: Martin Schoeller With Last Week Tonight, John Oliver has found himself in the curious, and enviable, position of hosting a satirical news show that frequently makes news. Whether it’s by setting up a fake church to show the flimsiness of religious tax exemptions, urging viewers to overload…

Go home Yeezy, you’re drunk off of all that power “Jesus Christ, Superstar / Do you think you’re what they say you are?” If you’re a Christian like Kanye West proclaims to be, you were raised knowing that God placed his son Jesus on the Earth to spread his message of goodwill. After 33 years, Jesus…

Photo: Mike Olbinski I t’s early summer, and I’m in Dupont Circle. Something’s off. People, I notice, seem to be suddenly tweeting much less lately. But I’ve got a book to finish, so I file the observation away to carefully inspect later. It’s late summer, and I’m standing in Madison Square,…

Short Profile Name: Anton Corbijn DOB: 20 May 1955 Place of Birth: Strijen, South Holland, Netherlands Occupation: Photographer, Director Mr. Corbijn, you have a long history of photographing musicians. Do you know how to play an instrument yourself? On two occasions I was able to jump in for the…

SoundCloud Recorded music was once incredibly fragile. Before the days of digital music, an independent band might press only a few thousand, or even a few hundred copies of a vinyl record. Those albums only became more rare over the years as copies were scratched, broken, or thrown out. Likewise,…

HBR STAFF What happened to Twitter? Once, it was glorified as a digital town square, where thinkers and activists could come together to discuss and organize. And yet this week, they finally admitted that their growth has stalled – and their stock quickly followed suit. Twitter and its analysts…

In the cold open of “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee,” her new weekly show Mondays on TBS, Ms. Bee addressed the elephant in the man cave. The sketch had her taking questions at a news conference, all of which had to do with the challenges of hosting the show as a woman. (“How can I watch your show…

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 ,…