I met up with deadmau5 at a club in Ottawa during the 2012 JUNO Awards. I was tagging along as his guest, expecting a wild night of partying following a big televised performance where he closed out the award show. However, after 20 minutes in the club, I got a nudge on my shoulder and a "let's get…

In a fancy office block in Moscow, dozens of bright young Russians are designing artwork to glorify Vladimir Putin. One poster asks: “What does Superman dream of?” It shows the Man of Steel asleep wearing Putin pyjamas. Russian propaganda is as good a guide as any to Mr Putin’s aims. To distract his…

An oil drilling rig in Norway. gigishots/Getty Images/iStockphoto When oil was discovered in the Norwegian continental shelf in 1969, Norway was very aware of the finite nature of petroleum, and didn't waste any time legislating policies to manage the new-found resource in a way that would give…

The money poured in by the millions, then by the hundreds of millions, and finally by the billions. Over weak coffee in a conference room in Midtown Manhattan last year, a half-dozen Puerto Rican officials exhaled: Their cash-starved island had persuaded some of the country’s biggest hedge funds to…

Playmates Once Upon a Time in the West With Playmate Chelsie Aryn Drive off into the sunset with March 2015 Playmate Chelsie Aryn Once Upon a Time in the West With Playmate Chelsie Aryn FEATURED ARTICLES ICYMI: FEATURED ON PLAYBOY'S INSTAGRAM Previous Article Next Article PLAYMATE OF THE MONTH…

AT A former Hershey’s chocolate factory just outside Ottawa a company called Tweed now produces a rather different confection: marijuana for Canada’s tightly regulated medical market. Under the gaze of surveillance cameras, scientists in lab coats concoct new cannabis-based blends in near-sterile…

It is a fact universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of an opinion must be in want of a correction. Well, actually, no it isn’t, but who doesn’t love riffing on Jane Austen? The answer is: lots of people, because we’re all different and some of us haven’t even read Pride and Prejudice…

Preface: I replied to the Inverse Pitch for this story thinking I was interested in seeing if it was actually difficult to buy a gun in California. TL;DR: It is, sort of. The editors got back to me on the day of the Oregon shooting . I got assigned my editor for this story about 12 hours after…

O n a recent Thursday afternoon, fifteen hundred teenagers gather outside a Barnes & Noble in Manhattan to get a glimpse of Felix Kjellberg, the 26-year-old YouTube sensation better known as PewDiePie. A 21-year-old girl with bleached blonde hair tells me she arrived in New York at 4 a.m., after…

George Hotz is taking on Google and Tesla by himself. A few days before Thanksgiving, George Hotz, a 26-year-old hacker, invites me to his house in San Francisco to check out a project he’s been working on. He says it’s a self-driving car that he had built in about a month. The claim seems absurd.…

AS AUDIENCES left the premiere of the new Star Wars film, “The Force Awakens”, in Los Angeles on December 14th, its last image still alive in their imaginations, it became obvious that the hit of the year had arrived. Those at the screening saw plenty that is familiar from the original three…

But it is not clear what deal David Cameron can get, nor that British voters will back him when he gets one IT WAS described as a “make-or-break” moment for Britain and the European Union. Yet, on the face of it, little happened at last night’s summit of EU leaders to advance Britain’s renegotiation…

The EU faces many crises. One of them is unlike all the rest LIKE blows from a fearsome heavyweight, the crises keep raining down upon Europe’s battered brow. Refugees, terrorism, Syria, Russia, Greece and Britain’s threat to quit the European Union: collectively they have left the EU punch-drunk…

FOR anyone unsure what sort of an event was about to unfold in Robarts Arena, in sunny Sarasota, on November 28th, the elephant was a clue. It stood meekly outside the entrance, a long-suffering fairground veteran, with “Trump: Make America Great Again” chalked on its flank. Had the thousands of…

An aerial view of the ‘‘prow’’ of Mount Roraima, one of the most spectacular tepuis , or mesas, in Canaima National Park. George Steinmetz for The New York Times Video by George Steinmetz version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"? Visual journeys by six photographers 1 Nigeria 2 Black Sea 3 Tokyo 4 Venezuela 5…

YouNow’s 5quad: Timmy Connors, Rudan Custodido, Edwin Burgos, Nick Bean, and Zach Clayton. Photo by Jordan Tugrul/Tha Lights Photography Zach Clayton, 15, is the most famous person on a social network most people have never heard of. In the summer of 2014, Zach created an account on YouNow , an app…

Most people get porn for free—but feminist filmmakers are hoping to change that. Photo by taxcredits.com . If you’re a progressive middle-class individual, chances are you think about where your food comes from. Maybe you try to buy shoes that are ethically made and do research on who grew your…

In “ Sisters ,” Tina Fey and Amy Poehler play adult siblings who decide to throw one last wild teenage-style bash in their childhood home. (Cue the dance-offs and cannonballs into the pool.) In real life, Ms. Fey and Ms. Poehler have been to decades of parties together, from wrap nights at “Saturday…

Working on the deck composition for Secret Hitler. (This is essay is part one in a series. You can read part two here .) Hi everyone! I’m Tommy Maranges , one of the designers/creators of Secret Hitler , which is a social deduction game that we are funding on Kickstarter right now. As the wonkiest…

Secret Hitler is a hidden-identity game I helped create, and you can get it right now on Kickstarter . For the last week, to give people a sense of what it’s like to play, we’ve been streaming it live on Twitch.TV. If you’ve been watching the Twitch streams, you know that games of Secret Hitler can…

Who can honestly say that they don't use drugs? I'm not necessarily talking about illegal drugs, like marijuana or psychedelics. Alcohol is a drug. Nicotine is a drug. Caffeine is a drug. Aspirin is a drug. Many kids are on Adderall and many parents [and grandparents ;) ] take Viagra. There are…

Five years ago, a relatively unknown (and unhinged) director began one of the wildest experiments in film history. Armed with total creative control, he invaded a Ukrainian city, marshaled a cast of thousands and thousands, and constructed a totalitarian society in which the cameras are always…

Photo by SDPD When porn star and feminist activist Stoya tweeted on November 28th that she had been sexually assaulted by fellow star James Deen , the porn-watching world gasped in collective horror. Deen, Stoya’s ex-boyfriend, has in recent years rocketed to fame because of his seemingly…

Jessica Jones hates the sinister Kilgrave, so why, when he requests a selfie of her smiling, does she send him one? Illustration by Tomer Hanuka “I promise that I won’t touch you until I get your genuine consent,” the sinister Kilgrave (David Tennant) announces, on “Marvel’s Jessica Jones,” the…

Photo by Andrey_Popov /Shutterstock, with additional illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker Watching someone sleep is intimate and a little creepy. In movies and television, when people wake up to discover they are being stared at, they rear their heads back, cover up their morning breath, and giggle…

“You can never think too big”. So proclaims the dusty sign outside a hangar in America’s Mojave desert where boffins are building the Stratolaunch, the world’s biggest aircraft, due for its maiden test flight in 2016. It could be a fitting slogan for a year in which the world’s biggest battery…

When the New York Times editorial board issued its powerful condemnation of America’s gun culture, they went beyond mere outrage in response to the recent murder sprees in San Bernardino, California, and Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Times went so far as to suggest that “assault rifle”-style…

The name Martin Shkreli seems to ring wrong these days. As CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, the Brooklyn native’s controversial decision to raise the price of vital AIDS medication, Daraprim from $13.50 per pill to a staggering $750 each has incited vitriol from across the internet and the real world.…

In 1993, LucasArts released Star Wars: X-Wing , a space flight simulator that let the player fly as part of the Rebel Alliance in missions focused on ambushing Imperial forces and gathering intelligence. The game received near universal critical acclaim for its authenticity as both a window into the…

Toyota Star Wars merchandise is, to put it politely, a robust category. Over the years, we've seen Jar Jar Binks Pepsi , a real AT-AT walker , and a C-3PO tape dispenser . But the rarest piece of Star Wars merchandise of all is something that no one's really seen for years : a custom-made, Star…

All numbers aside, the market just isn’t that huge 2015 will go down as the year that Apple, YouTube, and Jay Z all looked at the current music landscape and thought, “You know what the world needs? Another streaming service.” Now, none of these services are bad, in and of themselves. For all the…

SEATTLE — The Seattle City Council voted unanimously to approve a bill allowing drivers for Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing apps to form unions. Council members voted 9-0 in favor of the ordinance, the first legislation of its kind in the country. The decision was greeted with cheers in a City…

Dear Spike Lee, Just cause you heard my Big Momma call me June-Bug or Poo doesn’t mean you get to. Most don’t honor the name Chi-raq here, but for the ones that do it’s their choice, our city. Yesterday, like the rest of Chicago (and America), I ran to the Internet to see the trailer for Chi-raq .…

One of the working titles for the group was the Reasonable Nutjob Caucus. Illustration by Matt Chase On July 28th, Mark Meadows, a Republican representative from North Carolina, walked to the well of the House and filed a motion to vacate the chair. It’s an obscure parliamentary tool that allows any…

My old neighborhood, and the block where my sister was shot 11 years ago. Eleven years ago– seven years after the murder of our brother –our sister nearly became a Chicago homicide statistic. She was out with friends at a neighborhood restaurant when someone in her crew got in an argument with…

Playmates Once Upon a Time in the West With Playmate Chelsie Aryn Drive off into the sunset with March 2015 Playmate Chelsie Aryn Once Upon a Time in the West With Playmate Chelsie Aryn FEATURED ARTICLES ICYMI: FEATURED ON PLAYBOY'S INSTAGRAM Previous Article Next Article PLAYMATE OF THE MONTH…

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…

The “too much tuna” prank duo, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, take their act to Off Broadway in a new live show Photograph: Courtesy Luke Fontana By | Advertising Gil Faizon ( Nick Kroll ) and George St. Geegland ( John Mulaney ) stole the hearts of the nation—or at least Comedy Central viewers—with…

We live in an era of political news that is, all too often, shocking but not surprising. The rise of Donald Trump definitely falls into that category. And so does the electoral earthquake that struck France in Sunday’s regional elections , with the right-wing National Front winning more votes than…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaking Monday during a rally coinciding with Pearl Harbor Day at Patriots Point aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in Mount Pleasant, S.C.. (Mic Smith/AP) Somehow, someway, in the hours between Donald Trump issuing an utterly clear statement…