Last August the death of Mike Brown and police reaction to protests in Ferguson brought the ongoing #BlackLivesMatter movement to the mainstream media foreground. In the year that followed, a slew of American states and cities have faced protest, controversy, and mass media scrutiny over the killing…

Photo: J.A. Bracchi/Getty Images Last night, the Twitter account for Tinder went on a tear against the Vanity Fair journalist Nancy Jo Sales, who recently argued, in her feature “ Tinder and the ‘Dating Apocalypse ,’” that dating apps are causing changes in human mating rituals of a magnitude…

H istorians may look to 2015 as the year when shit really started hitting the fan. Some snapshots: In just the past few months, record-setting heat waves in Pakistan and India each killed more than 1,000 people. In Washington state’s Olympic National Park, the rainforest caught fire for the first…

A t age 8, Jerry Heller was dodging beatings by the Polish kids on the west side of Cleveland. At age 11, he had his first gun: a .26 caliber Mauser a family member had taken off a German soldier in the fields of World War II. He was born and raised in Ohio, the son of a second-generation…

So, a six-hour miniseries about a young mayor struggling with the legal and political complexities of low-income housing might sound like a hard sell… until you find out that it’s being directed by Paul Haggis and produced by David Simon , the architect of one of modern television’s greatest…

The most viewed video game video on YouTube is not a scream-filled Let's Play by PewDiePie or a trailer for League of Legends. Nor is it the work of some glitzy production company, a video game publisher with money to burn or a YouTuber with a book out at Christmas. The most viewed video game video…

Ashly & Anthony Burch (you know, from HAWP and Borderlands) have just written a book. It’s all about Metal Gear Solid . What follows is an excerpt. Before they co-created the hit web series Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’ ?, Ashly and Anthony Burch were just a brother and sister who shared a weird…

Sex toys have transformed into sophisticated and well-designed gadgets that take their inspiration from Apple not Hustler. But one company has a bigger hope: that a better machine could mean better sex for a repressed nation. The sex toy as design object: the innards of Jimmyjane's Form 6 vibrator.…

Part Two So, in 1968 you were working on the titles for Bullitt. How did that come about? Pablo: That was because of Thomas Crown Affair – Steve McQueen loved me. He said I had to come to San Francisco, to give him an idea for a title. I said, “Okay, I’ll give you a month.” Pablo with Steve McQueen…

Part One Pablo in Cuba, 5 years old Let’s start at the beginning. You were born in Antilla, Cuba in 1935 and later you moved to New York. What was Cuba like for you? Pablo: In Cuba, my grandfather had a big farm and I worked for him there. That was a great experience, doing all kinds of work and it…

“Do you want to see what it looks like from the inside?” Sure. The helmet is ominously pockmarked and constructed out of steel in the Norman style. It looks like half a football sitting on a serving plate. The face is protected by bars that jut down from the brim, and an aventail, a ring of chain…

The complete story of Public Enemy ’s trail-blazing 1988 LP It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and 1990’s Fear of a Black Planet will be told via two Def Jam/UMe reissues released this month. The multi-disc sets, out on November 25th, will provide insight into two of the most sonically…

As they do every evening, hundreds of fruit flies perched on the dank tiled walls in the Oakland County Jail's showers look on as I step in to prepare dinner. The roughly 6-by-4-foot enclosure is dimly lit by yellow, fluorescent light. The mildew is staggering. Aside from serving as a fruit fly…

Ever since he landed an Oscar nomination for his first-ever movie role in “Primal Fear,” Edward Norton has been dodgy about discussing his public life. Nevertheless, two more Oscar nominations and many different kind of movies later, he remains one of the most distinctive American actors working…

This article was written by Stephen Beirne and originally published on Normally Rascal . It was brought to us by our friends at Critical Distance, who find the best in critical writing about games each week. You can see more at their site , and support them on Patreon . /// In a recent video on…

From Wikipedia I’ve been following real room escape games since 2012 and because of my previous post on designing escape games I frequently get asked for help on designing these games. So I decided to answer some of the most frequent issues that people inquire about from general tips, to trends, to…

Donald J. Trump, left, and Jeb Bush during the debate. Doug Mills/The New York Times The first question to Chris Christie was about the nine credit downgrades that New Jersey had suffered since he became its governor. Ben Carson was reminded of his domestic-policy blunders, of his foreign-policy…

Shannon Liss Riordan, the labor lawyer representing Uber drivers in litigation against the ride-hailing company. Josh Valcarcel/WIRED Silicon Valley behemoth Uber is no stranger to court battles. Still, this week saw the tech giant face one of its biggest courtroom confrontations yet: Trying to…

Back during the previous Gilded Age, even Mark Twain surrendered. “It is a time when one is filled with vague longings,” he wrote. “When one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, ‘What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying…

Earlier this month, Marvel Comics announced a series of variant covers that put a superhero twist on the art of iconic rap albums like De La Soul’s 3 Feet High and Rising , Dr. Dre’s The Chronic , and 50 Cent’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’ . On its face, this was another love letter in the long…

Jump to navigationJump to search Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) [1] was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War , and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans,…

Illustration by Elias Stein America is constipated, says one Trump supporter—and The Donald? He’s “our new MiraLAX!” The bus tells you everything you need to know because the bus is a piece of shit. You would expect a Donald Trump campaign bus to be MOST LUXURIOUS, MOST DESIRED, NUMBER ONE BUS in…

As the masterminds behind Marvel comics in the 1960s, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby attracted a passionate following, and the dissolution of their partnership in 1970 occasioned much grief among superhero cultists. But few would have guessed that the ramifications of their fruitful collaboration would…

Hip-Hop is always ready to champion the next. Though the foundation of sampling old records and shout-outs to forefathers forever keeps one eye towards the past, young fans of the genre crave originality and the cutting-edge. But for the generations that grew up with hip-hop back in two fertile…

I t was just after 9:30 p.m., more than 30 minutes past Rakim’s arranged set time, when the staff in the Arie Crown Theater greenroom began to panic. “When he shows up,” a publicist muttered to a caterer in a Chef Boyardee toque, “don’t talk to him.” A peek through the curtains revealed that the…

The first time we see Dr. Dre in the new movie Straight Outta Compton , he’s sprawled in a pile of vinyl, his eyes closed as Roy Ayers’s “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” blares in his headphones, vibraphone mallets splashing against his eardrums. The teenage Andre Young we come to know in the first…

On September 12, 2000, Jon Stewart started The Daily Show ’s Headlines segment with the following joke: “The GOP accused of using subliminal advertising. Bush says, ‘Why would we advertise underwater?’” After a run of jokes about then-candidate George W. Bush, Stewart chuckles, “He’s making it so…

Lego-izing, Theorizing, and Problematizing: How We Process Movies in 2015By Noel Murray The Rocky Horror Picture Show flopped in the United States in its original limited release in 1975, but found new life when a shrewd 20th Century Fox executive suggested rebooking the film for midnight shows,…

Last month's Jeep hacking scandal has already been followed by a 1.4 million vehicle recall and a well-timed Senate bill . Now Chrysler faces that other inevitable punishment: a potentially massive lawsuit. On Tuesday three Jeep Cherokee owners filed a complaint against both Fiat Chrysler…

Is Record Store Day stronger than ever? Or is it irrelevant? Heading into the 8th annual celebration of "the unique culture" of independently-owned record stores this April 18th, the same evidence can be used for each side of the argument. For the former, there’s the official Record Store Day…

More transparency about how curation works is sorely needed At this point , pretty much everyone recognizes that playlists are one of the biggest ways people consume music on streaming services. Apple’s “For You” section offers a solid stream of compilations, from the sublime (“Indie Hits of [year]”…

Last month , California’s famous record chain Amoeba Music acquired a large collection of vinyl from an “iconic industry family” located in New Jersey. One of the records in that collection turned out to be a test pressing of Bob Dylan’s 1975 classic Blood On The Tracks — one of five they say is in…

Stewart Anderson has had enough. The frontman for noise-pop veterans Boyracer and head of likeminded label 555 Recordings has been releasing music on vinyl since 1991. But the well-documented manufacturing delays that have gone hand in hand with the format’s unlikely resurgence have finally pushed…

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How public shaming turned a pretty average rap battle into an epic one Last week I started getting text messages from friends and fellow rap fans who were unimpressed with Drake and Meek Mill’s then bubbling rap war. “Not impressed with this battle, not at all,” one read. “These dis records are…