In the 2001 movie “Ghost World,” 18-year-old Enid picks up the arm on her turntable, drops the needle in the groove, and plays a song yet another time. She can’t get over the emotional power of bluesman Skip James’ 1931 recording of “Devil Got My Woman.” If you know anything about 78 records, it…

Arnold Schwarzenegger has you fooled. He’s convinced you he’s nothing more than a catchphrase generator. A bodybuilder, not a brainiac. A nostalgia act trapped in the past. But like the Terminator, whose fleshy exterior hides a heavily armored metal endoskeleton, there’s a lot more to Schwarzenegger…

Inspired by Miles, Coltrane and Hendrix, we offer a ‘Breathless’ effort towards truth in music By Terence Blanchard I want nothing less than to change hearts and souls. If you let them, music and art can do this. They go well beyond words and, to me, contain that power, are an entity, a means,…

Story highlights U.N. warns of "looming humanitarian disaster" in North Korea due to drought with famine likely to follow Even state media, which usually paint a rosy picture, have expressed concerns U.N. official calls on international community to provide help Seoul, South Korea (CNN) Even a…

It’s impossible to understate what a shock it was for Western viewers to encounter Hong Kong action films in the early 1990s. For many film enthusiasts, the first indication that something was happening across the ocean came via Quentin Tarantino, a Hong Kong enthusiast who, in the many interviews…

On “Un REAL ,” the job of a reality producer is a grifter’s game. Illustration by Victor Melamed The pilot for Lifetime’s “Un REAL ” culminates in an act of manipulation so skilled that the villains of “Dangerous Liaisons” might hiss in envy. Rachel (Shiri Appleby), a producer on a “The…

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SINCE the euro crisis erupted five years ago, the possibility of “Grexit” has been a recurring nightmare. It is looming again, as large as it did in 2012, when Greece was ultimately kept in the fold by a second big bail-out from the IMF and other euro-zone governments. Negotiations over the release…

IT IS never pleasant to watch a relationship founder. Greece’s prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has charged its creditors with trying to humiliate the country; he has accused the IMF of “criminal responsibility” for Greece’s suffering. Prominent euro-zone politicians are saying openly that, without a…

Well, dear Internet, here we are, getting another Terminator movie. As Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-850 Model 101 says in the third installment, “Desire is irrelevant.” Half of this franchise’s cinematic output has been good-to-great, the other half bad-to-worse. Where will Wednesday’s Terminator:…

Page 1 of 2 Fifteen years ago this week, Ion Storm Austin released its debut game Deus Ex . The first-person cyberpunk game would go on to garner long-standing critical acclaim, become a high-water mark in the careers of game makers like Warren Spector and Harvey Smith, inspire a generation of…

Talented RPS writer chum Patricia Hernandez asked us if she could write about the influence of RPG-classic Fallout 2 on her life. We agreed, and what she came back with was a stark personal tale of how videogame fantasy can inspire interest, provoke thought, and ultimately change how we see the…

Photo courtesy of the Baha Men In the year 2000, a group of men from the Bahamas asked a loud and repetitive question in an incredibly catchy way. "Who Let the Dogs Out" led the Baha Men to world tours, deals with Disney and Nickelodeon, and even to be the walk-up song for pro baseball player Alex…

Getty Images The Baha Men's popular 2000 song "Who Let the Dogs Out" never hit number one in the United States. But it spread so quickly into American culture that year, it seemed impossible to escape the "WHO WHO WHO WHO WHO." 15 years ago — in the summer of 2000 — the nine-piece band Baha Men…

1979’s Alien is a horror movie about rape. Screenwriter Dan O’Bannon and his story partner (and roommate at the time) Ronald Shusett figured that out early in the scripting process. The life cycle of their alien monster was based on certain species of wasps that lay eggs in their prey, guaranteeing…

Twenty-three years ago, but still 164 years from now, Ellen Ripley died. In Aliens , she rescues a little girl, the last survivor of the overrun terraforming colony on the alien-infested planet LV-426. Then in Alien 3 , she crash-lands on the surface of the prison planet Fury 161, unaware that the…

The death of Vinnie Musetto, a former editor at the New York Post who wrote the famous headline “HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR,” has already attracted quite a few notices, including complimentary pieces in the Times , the Guardian , and the Post itself. Vinnie, whom I got to know a bit when I worked…

What do we call me? I’m a 26-year-old writer who lives in a gentrifying neighborhood in Brooklyn. I’m a straight white man with a single-speed bike and a mustache. I studied liberal arts in college, and I have ideas about stuff, you guys. Millennial? Hipster? Yuppie? All of these, or none? We don’t…

"I'd been offered a lot of different kinds of action movies, but nothing really interested me," he explained to Boxoffice Magazine in 1996. "I thought I'd seen it before." He wanted different challenges and different directors — he needed to push himself and grow. When he finally did launch an…

Sofia Coppola’s slim but remarkably cohesive five-feature filmography has established a signature shot: the window gaze. In general, Coppola’s films are filled with glass and reflective surfaces, but this specific shot—the camera looking in at a character who is looking out at the world, usually…

Editor's note: This story originally ran on June 3, 2015. LeBron James is one of the greatest athletes the world has ever seen. The body of an NFL linebacker. The speed of a track star. The vision and precision of a marksman. The basketball mind of a computer. All rolled into one package barreling…

Thailand’s Full Moon Party is debauched, depraved, and increasingly deadly. If only it were fun. KOH PHANGAN, Thailand— “HELLOOO, FULL MOON PARTY!” the touts holler. Welcome to Koh Phangan… I guess. The host of tuk-tuk drivers and solicitors who await the tourist ferry-load arriving every hour make…

BODY OF WORK Jeff Koons in the gym of his studio, in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood. He works out every day around noon, then eats a lean lunch. If the walls at Manhattan’s Frick Collection could talk, they would have been uttering tiny gasps of shock and awe this spring at a lecture given by…

Style/Storytelling Keith: We often kick off these forums with a discussion of style, but with A Hard Day’s Night , it seems like the only place to start. Richard Lester is one of my favorite directors, one I feel consistently doesn ’ t get his due these days. On that front, it probably doesn’t help…

After suffering a back injury that has confined him to a wheelchair for most of the past decade, Bernardo Bertolucci thought he might never make another film. Fortunately, he was wrong. Me And You is, appropriately, a story about confinement: A teenage boy (Jacopo Olmo Antinori) tells his mother…

Over the past decade, the influential scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla has enjoyed an enormous popular resurgence. His life story has inspired a popular puff piece from the Oatmeal , the funniest Drunk History episode ever , and David Bowie's surprise role as the Serbian genius in The Prestige .…

In “The Entire History of You,” the third episode of the dystopian British series “Black Mirror,” humans have developed implanted memory “grains” that record everything they see and hear. When users “redo” a memory by playing it back, the recreation even surpasses the original; they can zoom in on…

You needn’t Google far for recent case studies of Internet outrage. Log in to a social network and you’ll find it directed at celebrities and civilians alike. (See: Woody Allen, Stephen Colbert and Justine Sacco, the former communications director for IAC who posted an insensitive Twitter message…

Another Soundscan report is in and once again, album sales in the United States have slipped, this time from 235 million to 227 million compared to the same period last year. This is actually nothing new, since the format has been in a major decline since 2000, when sales were at an all-time high of…

Livestreaming is a self-indulgent, narcissistic pastime of the millennial generation, which is to say it's the most important thing happening in video games right now . It's possible you've never heard of livestream-a-ma-jig. If that's the case, enjoy these final moments of serenity, before your…

John Bain received his first offer to create advertorial for his YouTube channel in 2010. "A video game publisher asked me to create a video about one of its titles," says Bain. "They agreed to pay for the coverage so long as I agreed to not say anything negative about the game." It was the first of…

SAN FRANCISCO — Google Plus, the company’s social network, is like a ghost town. Want to see your old roommate’s baby or post your vacation status? Chances are, you’ll use Facebook instead. But Google isn’t worried. Google Plus may not be much of a competitor to Facebook as a social network, but it…

The 1983 high-school sex comedy Risky Business wasn’t Tom Cruise’s first movie, but it was his proper introduction. The Cruise of Risky Business is the first real example of what became the best version of Cruise’s screen persona: the one who popped up again in Jerry Maguire , Eyes Wide Shut ,…

Clicking a “View All Comments” button is a mild manifestation, I suspect, of the Freudian death instinct. Illustration by Ellen Surrey If the Internet were to receive its own Ten Commandments—picture a Moses figure descending from Mountain View, clutching a stone phablet etched with a listicle of…

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President Obama delivers a statement at the White House about the killings at an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina. PHOTOGRAPH BY ALEX WONG/GETTY Between 1882 and 1968, the year Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, three thousand four hundred and forty-six black men, women,…

For all avid readers who have been self-medicating with great books their entire lives, it comes as no surprise that reading books can be good for you. ILLUSTRATION BY SARAH MAZZETTI Several years ago, I was given as a gift a remote session with a bibliotherapist at the London headquarters of the…