In the Tesla post , we established what would need to happen for us to get to a totally sustainable future world: 1) We need almost everything we use to be running on electricity. 2) We need almost all of our electricity to be produced from sustainable sources. We’ve talked about #1 a lot already in…

Living in the present is so punk \m/ Stork Club is a dive bar and small concert venue right in the heart of downtown Oakland. The show started at 9pm, but there was an open mic comedy show before the music, so I arrived at 8:15, ordered a vodka tonic, and took a seat at a sticky bar table in the…

This is Part 2 of a four-part series on Elon Musk’s companies. For an explanation of why this series is happening and how Musk is involved, ____________ PDF and ebook options: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing (see a preview here ), and an ebook containing the whole…

(Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch) The never-ending austerity that Europe is force-feeding the Greek people is simply not working. Now Greece has loudly said no more. Global campaign group Avaaz organized this open letter to Angela Merkel on the back of a petition, signed by over half a million Europeans,…

Cinematographer Craig Kief was on vacation when producer Jonathan Buss – a guy he’s worked with on a few documentaries – sent him the script for “ 7 Days in Hell .” Kief had no idea what was coming, and by the last page he was nearly in tears from laughing so hard, he recently told Indiewire. “7…

Director Sarah Polley at work on her documentary The Stories We Tell . Last month, I put together a podcast about systemic sexism in the film in industry . You probably know the stats: Although women make up over half of the movie-going audiences in America, this past year less than five percent of…

This is a chance for Europe to awaken. The Greeks are correct: Brussels' denial that this is an ideological question is ideology at its purest - and symptomatic of our whole political process Slavoj Zizek The unexpectedly strong No in the Greek referendum was a historical vote, cast in a desperate…

A thunderstorm loomed over Mariupol on the afternoon of July 6. To the north, the sky turned dark and a cool prestorm breeze kicked up as the sounds of distant thunder began to roll in. A waitress at the Natalka coffee shop on Prospekt Lenina smiled and said, “It’s only a storm. Not artillery.”…

On the first Friday in May, a line of advertising and media people stretched down New York’s West 22nd Street, waiting to hear from Shane Smith, the 45-year-old bearded and bearish co-founder of Vice. One of the media world’s most flamboyant CEOs had an announcement to make. The occasion was the…

illustrator Anafelle Liu 1.2 Share on Tumblr E-mail Editor's Note: In keeping with what’s clearly become a habit for the Social Issues section, we give the floor over to an under-heard—and in this case, quite controversial—voice in society: the police officer. This being Grey , hers is no ordinary…

In the closing moments of Grizzly Man , Werner Herzog considers some of the last footage shot by Timothy Treadwell before a hungry bear mauled Treadwell and his girlfriend to death in Alaska’s Katmai National Park on October 5, 2003. The bear in the footage, Herzog observes, could very well be…

Three Blue Men, one Isaac Eddy (middle). (Image courtesy of Isaac Eddy) Welcome to the the first in a new series of Atlas Obscura features known as the Exit Interview. In these features we will be speaking to people who have held the world’s most interesting jobs, finding out why they chose their…

A couple of months ago, Laura Harper, a 44-year-old freelance writer and editor from Houston, Texas, got upset while reading a Jezebel story about a service called “Invisible Boyfriend.” The story described a new service from a St. Louis-based start-up that, for $25 a month, would give single people…

Dan Rather’s career as a network news anchor was full of memorable moments, but perhaps the single most surreal incident was the time he had to report a crime in which he was the victim. He was walking to his NYC home on October 4th, 1986, when he was accosted and beaten on the sidewalk by men who…

“Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man? “ “No. Have you?” Few films are as compulsively quotable as Aliens, that über-action flick that established Ellen Ripley as a science-fiction virago of the ass-kicking kind. But one of its biggest legacies was happening in the background. The…

Although it’s only been a day since The Dissolve abruptly ceased publication — so abruptly that Editor Scott Tobias was in the middle of when the axe fell — the sudden end to one of film culture’s brightest spots has sparked innumerable conversations about the future of film criticism. If, indeed,…

Fusion/Andy Dubbin A few months ago, the Internet was obsessed with Invisible Girlfriend/Boyfriend, a new start-up that allows users to "build" a significant other with whom they can exchange text messages. The founders said they created it for people who wanted "social proof" they were in a…

Here at ComicsAlliance, we value our readership and are always open to what the masses of Internet readers have to say. That's every week, Senior Writer Chris Sims puts his comics culture knowledge to the test as he responds to your reader questions! Q: Batman's no kill policy: when did it start in…

John Sayles, age 63, is one of the founding fathers of modern American independent cinema. One of the many now-famous directors to start his career working with Roger Corman, he’s spent 25 years writing and directing unusually humanistic, low-key films about how people relate to each other, through…

Cynthia (Sidse Babett Knudsen) and Evelyn (Chiara D’Anna) in “The Duke of Burgundy.” (IFC Films) Last September, at the Toronto International Film Festival, a couple of critics I’d talked to on Twitter but never met in person encouraged me to come to a screening with them. The film in question, “The…

The new generation of 9/11 jokes may not intend to make light of the tragedy itself, but it does have the effect of exorcising the event from America’s collective consciousness. Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images and original meme by Phantomazing . One…

Apply your criticisms to violence universally, not just when it’s convenient to your cause Rihanna’s latest video , “BBHMM (Bitch Better Have My Money)” broke yesterday and people are having Very Strong Opinions™ about it. I went into my viewing of it expecting something groundbreakingly…

Almost as soon as she started her Comedy Central series, the comedian Amy Schumer thought up a sketch: What if there was a single day on which an aging actress’s desirability evaporates? “We just liked the idea that there’s this calendar: This is it, you’re not” lust-worthy anymore, Ms. Schumer…

The idea that Batman doesn't kill people, and the secondary idea that Batman doesn't use guns, is usually seen as sacrosanct within the fandom. He doesn't kill. He doesn't pick up a gun and use it. He has gun-like weapons, but nothing you could ever grab for yourself down at Ammu-Nation. But let's…

Photo Credit Paul Rogers Personal Health Jane Brody on health and aging. Excessive use of computer games among young people in China appears to be taking an alarming turn and may have particular relevance for American parents whose children spend many hours a day focused on electronic screens. The…

The remnants of Transcontinental Air Mail Route Beacon 37A, which was located atop a bluff in St. George, Utah. (Photo: Dppowell/Wikipedia) Across the United States, from Los Angeles to New York, lies a network of mostly forgotten infrastructure, a system that was obsolete before it was ever…

Designer/director Aubrey Powell reveals secrets from behind the wall It’s hard to imagine a time when Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon didn’t exist. Its imagery has become so diluted into popular culture that it’s easy to forget its actual value as a rock & roll artifact. Most of all, it stands as…

When the musicians once and forever known as the Grateful Dead take the stage in Chicago this weekend to cap a two-city, five-show 50th anniversary run, Deadheads the world over will have myriad ways to join the fun. As with any high-profile event these days, fans can tune in to pay-per-view streams…

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01. Mad Max: Fury Road Mad Max: Fury Road might as well have ended with director and Mad Max creator George Miller dropping the mic. It burst onto screens at the beginning of blockbuster season and challenged so much of what critics, nerds, and casual viewers alike have come to accept from action…

Published on by In order to respond adequately, first we may need to mourn by Per Espen Stoknes 'To cope with losing our world,' writes Stoknes, 'requires us to descend through the anger into mourning and sadness, not speedily bypass them to jump onto the optimism bandwagon or escape into…

For decades, there were only two ways to watch “The Decline of Western Civilization”: buy a bootleg or download it online. Both are illegal. For a movie about the underground punk scene, the film’s nearly impossible-to-find status contributed to its cult appeal. Like hunting down a rare vinyl record…

Jump to Last year, a friend asked if I wanted to meet the man known as AM Radio. I never expected to meet him. If the world of MMOs has a Banksy, it's AM Radio. But where the British street artist is famous for his sardonic graffiti mysteriously appearing around the globe, AM Radio is famous for…

Mullally and Offerman go at it as Tammy and Ron on Parks and Recreation . (Photo: Courtesy of NBC) How long before you closed the deal? N.O.: We might have two different versions of this. M.M.: I doubt we do. He called me and left a message on my fax number asking me— N.O.: [ Interrupting ] Which…

It was in August 2014 that the real danger began, and that we heard the first warnings of war . That month, unmarked Russian troops covertly invaded eastern Ukraine, where the separatist conflict had grown out of its control. The Russian air force began harassing the neighboring Baltic states of…

An Incredibly Detailed Map of Europe's Population Shifts Feargus O'Sullivan Jun 22, 2015 The map provides a level of detail previously unavailable. It is the first ever to collect data published by all of Europe’s municipalities. Since the turn of the millennium, Europe has been undergoing some…