McLovin will be out of luck (Photo: youngthousands/Flickr ) The past century has been a golden age of identification documents. As international travel and auto ownership boomed, so did the use of licenses and passports. And as the need for government-issued IDs grew, so did the demand for fake…

Game of Thrones is known for its excessive female nudity and gruesome violence. But we seldom dive deeper than that, to ask how the show polarizes female nakedness as either a presentation of empowerment or shame. On one hand, there is Daenerys Targaryen, wife of Khal Drogo and one of the last…

Run the Jewels: Killer Mike (left) and El-P.Photograph: Graeme Robertson BANKSY: Thanks for agreeing to play my theme park. Have you ever played in a theme park before? EL-P I have not yet had the pleasure of playing in a theme park, or enjoying one for that matter. KILLER MIKE I have not played a…

What is this thing? In essence it’s a festival of art, amusements and entry-level anarchism. A place where you can get your counterculture easily available over the counter. A theme park for the disenfranchised, with franchises available. I guess you’d say its a theme park whose big theme is – theme…

Jesse Wagstaff Living By on Aug 21, 2015 Share Get ready, folks! The most magical time of year is almost upon us. That’s right: Burning Man . Lest you mistake me for a tech billionaire with a penchant for fuzzy boots, hula hoops, group showers, and dudes named Dusty Unicorn — au contraire . The…

In the aftermath of a hack that revealed the identities of millions of users of the infidelity dating website Ashley Madison, people everywhere have faced an impossible question : should you find out whether someone you love has ever signed up for Ashley Madison? Do you even want to know? Samantha*,…

I can tell you about the moment I heard Pimp C was dead — Dec. 4, 2007; at work in my office at Vibe; nervously refreshing TMZ, which had broken the news; feeling nauseous. The room hummed with the white noise that takes over when you no longer register what’s happening around you. Minutes later, a…

B y Miami standards, the con pulled by Ibes Gomez seems minor. Small potatoes. Mostly just bad checks. A little hot paper to launch a tire business. Another bad check after a car sale went south. And also, yes, a few more checks, totaling an amount of some substance, that caught everyone’s attention…

The United States armed forces and its NATO allies are performing the biggest airborne drill training since the Cold War in response to further violence from pro-Russian forces in the eastern part of Ukraine. A total of 11 NATO nations and 5,000 soldiers are participating in the month-long drill in…

Who hasn't dreamed about making their own levels in a Mario game? Super Mario Maker is a bit of an answered prayer for every kid who grew up with graphing paper and a dream, and I've been able to spend a few days, and one intense night, with the game. Here's what I've learned. It's OK to be a…

Ashley Madison, FUSION When Tom found out last month that the infidelity dating website Ashley Madison had been hacked, he almost threw up. Tom had been using the site for years to cheat on his wife of over two decades. He immediately deleted his account and prayed that she would never find out.…

I had thought I’d seen the most shocking paparazzi assaults, the ones on Michael Jackson and Madonna, on the Kardashians and the Jolie-Pitts. But there are a couple of scenes in Asif Kapadia’s new Amy Winehouse documentary , Amy , that make the fame-industrial complex seem rock-bottom awful. They…

In Praise Of Spike Jonze, The Actor film still His role as blue collar good-ol'-boy Conrad Vig in Three Kings is one of the great examples of directors acting. In an alternate reality, Spike Jonze is preparing for Zoolander 2 , did one of Woody Allen's European movies (a good one), and has an Oscar…

I n November 1996, executives at Warner Bros. were making final preparations to release one of the most ambitious films in the studio’s 73-year history. A hybrid live-action/animated production where the fate of the galaxy depends on teaming up the most recognizable athlete on the planet ( Michael…

When hardcore and hip-hop collided in 1980s New York City, the cultural crossover was uncomfortable, dangerous and exhilarating By Dante Ross Photographs by Glen E. Friedman I grew up on New York’s Lower East Side , so I can blame most of my early life on my immediate surroundings. I was raised in…

Volume is a game that wears its influences on its sleeve, and none seem to loom as large over the project as the spectre of Metal Gear Solid . In talking about Volume, the developer, Mike Bithell, has been upfront with his admiration for the series, particularly the first two installments. Talking…

Justin Bailey, formerly of developer Double Fine, is launching a new crowdfunding solution for game developers. Called Fig , the service will offer rewards-based funding alongside equity investment. Fig's advisory board will include Feargus Urquhart, Brian Fargo and Tim Schafer. Fig's first…

This weekend, I paid to see Straight Outta Compton, F. Gary Gray’s authorized biopic about pioneering gangsta rap group N.W.A . Two and a half hours later , I felt like I had been watching television — Straight Outta Compton is essentially a well-made homage to one of the least reputable film…

This weekend, Dr. Dre made an extraordinary announcement: Detox , the career capstone LP that he spent 13 years finessing while fending off torrents of flop sweat, has been scuttled. “I didn’t like it. It wasn’t good,” Dre admitted Saturday on his Beats 1 radio show, The Pharmacy , officially…

Photo: New Line Cinema We have Ice Cube’s 1995 classic, Friday , to thank for the very useful phrase “Bye, Felicia”: In the movie, his character gets rid of a freeloading neighbor with this curt, simple phrase. Bye, Felicia. More recently, the phrase has found new life as the most satisfying way to…

Whether it’s Katy Perry poaching dancers from once-BFF Taylor Swift or Clytemnestra orchestrating the murder of her husband Agamemnon, betrayal is a dark, persistent part of the human condition. Unlike garden-variety deception, betrayal happens in established relationships, destroying trust that has…

Ashley Madison Last month, a hacking group going by the name "Impact Team" claimed that it had hacked Ashley Madison, the infidelity dating site, and published some business records online as proof. Those records quickly vanished, but Impact Team said it had a lot more, and threatened to release…

Fight back with this simple hack (and when you are done, read the FAQ ) If you subscribe to a subscription music service such as Spotify or Apple Music you probably pay $10 a month. And if you are like most people, you probably do so believing your money goes to the artists you listen to.…

ABOARD THE BOB BARKER, in the South Atlantic — As the Thunder, a trawler considered the world’s most notorious fish poacher, began sliding under the sea a couple of hundred miles south of Nigeria, three men scrambled aboard to gather evidence of its crimes. In bumpy footage from their helmet…

It’s easier for a company to justify generous parental leave when many of their employees were already taking time off anyway. PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER MARLOW / MAGNUM Netflix’s announcement, on Tuesday, that it will start offering new moms and dads up to a year of paid leave has the tone of a parent…

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The Carte of Coastal Virginia (Image: Theodor de Bry/Wikimedia ) Since 1590, the fate of the colonists who settled on Roanoke Island, off the coast of what’s now North Carolina, has been one of America’s great mysteries. When John White left the colony in 1587, to ask England for additional aid,…

T he thing is, when you actually think about it, it’s not funny. Given what’s at stake, it’s more like the opposite, like the first sign of the collapse of the United States as a global superpower. Twenty years from now, when we’re all living like prehistory hominids and hunting rats with sticks,…

When Kendrick Lamar arrives this Friday evening at a cavernous photo studio in the flatlands of industrial Hollywood, he’s 30 minutes early. And the occasion has been nearly 25 years in the making: Lamar, 28, is here to interview the four living members of N.W.A for their first magazine cover…

The news that HBO would be ” occasioned an immediate flurry of social-media gags — what if Bert and Ernie were the cast of #TrueDetectiveSeason3? — and a less widespread but more intense burst of outrage from people who felt that a treasured public resource had suddenly been privatized. Sesame…

A normal drive from Ocean City, Md., back to the suburbia of Baltimore County, Md., would usually take three hours, tops. A drive back from Ocean City, Md., with my immediate family—the eleven-year-old half brother, my stepfather, my mother, our pug/chihuahua Milo and our looming Labrador mix…

I recently finished a story I’d spent several months obsessing over. When I pitched the piece to my editor, I knew that I’d found a worthy subject, but I couldn’t quite articulate what the story was about. It wasn’t that I didn’t have the words — it’s that I didn’t have an answer yet. All I knew was…

Last fall, Andrew Vestal found himself rocking his baby daughter, Ada, back to sleep every morning between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. Cradling Ada in the crook of his arm, he discovered he could read his dimly-lit phone with one hand. That’s how he read David Mitchell’s 624-page science-fiction saga “The…

THE prime minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, has called an election for Oct. 19, but he doesn’t want anyone to talk about it. He has chosen not to participate in the traditional series of debates on national television, confronting his opponents in quieter, less public venues, like the scholarly…

Craig Schweisinger opened the doors to Skateland U.S.A. on Saturday, Nov. 16, 1984. High schoolers mingled with gangbangers and roller skaters who took their choreography seriously. A sign reading NO CAPS — NO COLORS greeted attendees at the door. Everyone was required to pass through an…

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Once upon a time, in the year 2007, people were really excited about Second Life . Businessweek ran a cover story with the headline "Virtual World, Real Money." Brands opened stores in Second Life malls . It was even featured on an episode of The Office . Colleges were among those that bought the…