Two Dissolve writers keep The Killer conversation going... Scott: Let’s flash back to the early ’90s. I was an undergrad at the University Of Georgia and a member of Cinematic Arts, a student organization that programmed a repertory house inside the Tate Center. Back then, we didn’t have the…

In Jean-Claude Van Damme’s latest film, the organ-theft thriller Pound Of Flesh , he owns the screen. He appears in almost every scene, and when he’s present, all the action revolves around him. Plot points exist only to nudge him from beatdown to beatdown. Other characters lives’ begin and end in…

Wonder Woman, introduced in 1941, was a creation of utopian feminism, inspired by Margaret Sanger and the ideals of free love. Photograph by Grant Cornett The Wonder Woman Family Museum occupies a one-room bunker beneath a two-story house on a hilly street in Bethel, Connecticut. It contains more…

GIRLS and the United Vanderpumping Heart of Jane Austen I Every time I board a commercial flight I think it’s going to crash. It’s not that I’m paralyzed with fear—or that I truly believe a crash will happen—but the thought always passes my mind for a brief moment when I cross the threshold from the…

Adam Levey 1. Youngstown, U.S.A. The end of work is still just a futuristic concept for most of the United States, but it is something like a moment in history for Youngstown, Ohio, one its residents can cite with precision: September 19, 1977. For much of the 20th century, Youngstown’s steel mills…

Bourdin once wrote, “When you fight monsters, be careful that . . . you do not become one.” Photograph by François-Marie Banier On May 3, 2005, in France, a man called an emergency hot line for missing and exploited children. He frantically explained that he was a tourist passing through Orthez,…

HappyDancing / Mega Pixel / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Last winter, William MacAskill and his wife Amanda moved into a Union Square apartment that I was sharing with several friends in New York. At first, I knew nothing about Will except what I could glean from some brief encounters, like his…

As long as the City of New York has owned Rikers Island, since the 1880s, it has been a place for the unwanted. For a time, pigs were raised for slaughter there. Not long afterward, the island — conveniently but remotely located in the East River between the Bronx and Queens, not 300 feet from where…

Diane and John Foley endured two kidnapping ordeals. Their son Jim, a journalist, was abducted in both Libya and Syria. Photographs by Carla Van De Puttelaar Five American families, each harboring a grave secret, took their seats around a vast dining table at the home of David Bradley, a Washington,…

Alex, a 23-year-old Sunday school teacher and babysitter, was trembling with excitement the day she told her Twitter followers that she had converted to Islam. For months, she had been growing closer to a new group of friends online — the most attentive she had ever had — who were teaching her what…

Richard Nixon was a traitor. The new release of extended versions of Nixon's papers now confirms this long-standing belief, usually dismissed as a "conspiracy theory" by Republican conservatives. Now it has been substantiated by none other than right-wing columnist George Will. Nixon's newly…

Sure, you've heard of Bridgegate, but Chris Christie's entire career is a veritable litany of ruthlessness. Now, as the bully who would be president jumps into the 2016 race, we've gathered his victims' stories. Presenting an abridged guide to the petty abuses and calculated skullduggery of the…

Illustration by Tom Bachtell. In the Green Mountains of southern Vermont, where I spent last week enjoying the fresh air, the world seemed like a quiet and peaceful place. I enjoyed some time with my family, swam in crystal-clear lakes, walked by a house where Norman Rockwell once lived, and tried…

The European Court ruled that Google must delete certain links that violate privacy. Illustration by Javier Jaén On October 31, 2006, an eighteen-year-old woman named Nikki Catsouras slammed her father’s sports car into the side of a concrete toll booth in Orange County, California. Catsouras was…

Ariel Zambelich/WIRED Stewart is hungry. He’s munching on potatoes smothered in chicken fat drippings, sitting by a long metal table that once served as a gurney in the morgue at the Treasure Island Naval Base. It’s a prominent piece of furniture in what will be the kitchen area for Stewart’s new…

There’s no helpline for pedophiles who want treatment before they act. So a teen with a terrible secret had to find his own way to save himself and others like him. By Luke Malone Illustrations by Simon Prades Nominated for a 2014 National Magazine Award for Public Interest , which honors magazine…

There’s a scene in The Virgin Suicides in which the neighborhood boys, who have long lingered on the sidelines of the Lisbon sisters’ lives, reach out to the girls over the phone. After hearing a single “hello,” they drop the needle on Todd Rundgren’s “Hello, It’s Me,” holding the receiver up to the…

Vincent Musetto, a retired editor at The New York Post who wrote the most anatomically evocative headline in the history of American journalism — HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR — died on Tuesday in the Bronx. He was 74. A former colleague, Myron Rushetzky, confirmed the death, of pancreatic cancer, at…

The Abortion Drone was a success, women in Poland receive medical abortions. The drone departed from Germany and landed at the opposite side of the river in Slubice, Poland. While the drones were crossing the German/Polish border , the German Police tried to intervene but the drone pilots were able…

“I’m not proud of the fact that I have to chase these records down like a maniac,” John Heneghan said of his search for rare (and expensive) 78 r.p.m. blues records. Theo Morrison for The New York Times JOHN HENEGHAN tugged a large shellac disc from its brown paper sleeve, placed it on a turntable…

Most of us old enough to have grown up with cassette tapes have fond memories of recording off the radio, copying albums, or making mix tapes. But we also recall that horrible moment when the tape you’re enjoying suddenly grinds to a halt. You press the eject button and try to pull out the cassette,…

Growing up in the 1970s, Bucks Burnett never even owned an eight-track tape: When his parents purchased their first post-LP stereo console, they went straight for a cassette player. “They were visionaries,” he says. But that hasn’t stopped Burnett from becoming the eight-track’s most vocal champion,…

Boomboxes are, by definition, excessive. With their deafening bass thud and dazzling chrome dials, these electric beasts are heavy enough to tone your biceps. Also known as “ghetto blasters” or “jamboxes,” they rose to fame in the 1980s along with hip-hop, flourishing as a tool for sharing and…

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…