Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain, with their baby Frances Bean Cobain, at the 1993 MTV Music Video Awards. Photograph by Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Sensitivity, like a superpower, can be a glorious and terrible gift. In Brett Morgen’s revelatory documentary “Kurt Cobain: A Montage of Heck,” which airs…

After I made The Celebration , I felt that I had finalized a way of making films to such a degree that I couldn’t go further, that it would be pathetic to repeat it. So I took the rules of Dogme 95 and burned them. Which was a stupid thing to do. I betrayed myself by looking at my next film as a…

It’s rare, but sometimes less is more in hip-hop. That’s always been the case for Redman, who appears literally covered in dirt on his second and third album covers, and who has spun a career out of rhymes about “grimy shit” and dressing “bummy for low profile.” All of which made him the least…

It was all good just a month ago. #ff @Grooveshark — Rembert Browne (@rembert) March 30, 2015 This day was like many other days. Every few months, the same scenario would present itself. A song would pop into my head — a song that was not on Spotify, not on iTunes, and occasionally not even on…

Episode 161 Show of Force Play Pause Category History Date 04.21.15 Producer Add to Queue Remove from Queue Download During World War II, a massive recruitment effort targeted students from the top art schools across the country. These young designers, artists, and makers were being asked to help…

I’m far from the target audience for the simulated teen drinking party I attended last weekend—that audience being freaked-out parents who want to see what really goes on at the hormone-fueled ragers their children are just starting to attend—but let me start by saying that the whole thing was very…

Comedy with a message can easily turn didactic or smug, but Schumer’s show feels built to withstand this pressure. Photograph by Martin Schoeller / AUGUST “I really need to stop making so many white girls,” God, played by Paul Giamatti, groans, on Comedy Central’s “Inside Amy Schumer.” In this…

Component is a section of Aux.Out. for one-off pieces, special editorials, and lost orphans of the music discussion. Today, Gary Suarez fails to complete his assignment, an oral history of 10-year-old Travis Morrison solo album Travistan . Instead, he wrote something better. ~ Photography by Philip…

Are chart-topping retro-style hits honoring the past or simply retreading it? On a recent drive , I flipped on Z100 and had a curious case of déjà vu. Each song the station played was technically “new” — the hottest product on the market in 2015. But many of the sounds blaring through my speakers…

When you are a registered sex offender in America, you lose the right to choose where you want to live. By law. Your backstory doesn't matter. Nor does the nature of your crime or your excuse. You are exiled from society, and only a few places will welcome you. Like this place in South Florida. The…

Let’s be honest: there’s always been something a little bit seedy, from a grownup’s point of view, about Chuck E. Cheese, the national party-space chain. Perez Hilton has an entire category of his Web site devoted to dodgy happenings and strange behavior at the restaurants: cars driven into walls,…

“Thank you all very much,” Update 57 concluded, by way of goodbye. “Working on this project was the most ambitious and meaningful undertaking any of us have ever attempted. Getting to know all of you, and working to create some seriously cool technology, was one of the most rewarding things we’ve…

COLORADO SPRINGS — AT 6:45 p.m. on Jan. 23, I was delivered to a Colorado state penitentiary, where I was issued an inmate uniform and a mesh bag with my toiletries and bedding. My arms were handcuffed behind my back, my legs were shackled and I was deposited in Administrative Segregation — solitary…

The music tech business is a graveyard littered with ideas that seemed cool at the time Ask almost any music startup founder why they started their company, and you’re likely to hear a variation of the following: “I love music! I’m such a passionate fan and music changed my life.” Which, on one…

By Paul Bruinooge/PatrickMcMullan.com (Left); © Gotcha Images/Splash News/Corbis (Center); By Bobby Bank/WireImage. Tom Hardy loves dogs. He has owned them, co-starred with them , posed shirtless with them , cried with them , hugged them , and kissed them . He has also spoken about them—at…

SAN DIEGO — In a typical last-minute scramble, Jannette Navarro, a 22-year-old Starbucks barista and single mother, scraped together a plan for surviving the month of July without setting off family or financial disaster. In contrast to the joyless work she had done at a Dollar Tree store and a KFC…

By A staged photo of U.S. Marshals protecting a witness. Photo credit: U.S. Department of Justice, Wikipedia Gerald Shur was struggling to convince his witness to testify. The year was 1961, and Shur, an attorney focused on organized crime at the Department of Justice, was talking to the owner of a…

*Correction: This post has been updated reflect that the 90:10 rule applies to the percentage of a for-profit college’s revenue that may be made up by federal financial aid, not the percentage of an individual student’s tuition. Also, Everest did assign Brown an internship, but she wasn’t able to…

One question I get asked once in a while as a football writer — especially by friends who don’t really follow or enjoy football — is whether I think there will still be a sport for me to cover in 20 or 30 years. This is my seventh season writing about football for a living, so I can’t say whether…

You are butt-naked in total darkness. Sopping wet and totally alone, the space you're in is so small that you can't stand. The only sound is the thud of your heart. You are a mewling human baby in a mechanical womb. This might sound like scary nightmare torture, but I'm describing "floating," an…

Microsoft's latest purchase has remarkable cross-generational appeal Back in June of 2011, David Pakman’s son and daughter, at the time age eight and 10, asked him for a copy of Minecraft. “I didn’t know what that was, so I checked it out, thought it was kinda like digital Legos, and agreed to get…

OAKLAND, Calif.—The people here were out of step with America. In the hours after the attacks of September 11, 2oo1, they were angry at the terrorists who flew planes into the Pentagon and World Trade Center. They wanted the attackers brought to justice. They mourned the victims, cheered the…

There are elements of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon that a Western audience is unlikely to understand. The title comes from a Chinese aphorism about hiding strength from the world. The story centers on a 400-year-old sword called Green Destiny because, as director Ang Lee explains it, the color…

If you want to illustrate the old adage about a prophet who is without honor in his own country, look to Terry Gilliam. Mind you, I guess America isn’t even Gilliam’s country anymore, and neither is Hollywood. The onetime Monty Python member and director of “Time Bandits,” “Brazil” and “12 Monkeys,”…

by Bryan Curtis Jeff Henry, Verrückt, and the Men Who Built The Great American Water Park by Bryan Curtis / Photographs by Kevin Cooley / Illustrations by L-Dopa Kansas City, April Seventeen stories above Kansas — above cement rivers and man-made surf waves and cups of Dippin’ Dots: The Ice Cream of…

Back when people had to leave the house if they wanted to buy something, the biggest problem in the book business was bookstores. There were not enough of them. Bookstores were clustered in big cities, and many were really gift shops with a few select volumes for sale. Publishers sold a lot of their…

For someone who’s considered one of the greatest filmmakers in history, Sergio Leone was not especially prolific. While he worked extensively as an assistant director (with credits including “ Bicycle Thieves ,” “ Quo Vadis ” and “ Ben Hur “), he was only credited on seven films across his…

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There’s a joke you can see almost anytime there’s breaking news about violence. Some Auburn fans beat up some Alabama fans before the Iron Bowl, say, and a sour journalist quips, “When will moderate Auburn fans condemn the actions of extremist Auburn fans?” Repeat for any topic. This framework comes…

To say Jay Z is increasingly desperate over the labored launch of Tidal isn’t quite right. For all the stilted grandiosity of its optics (that goddamn press conference) and mission statement (to REVOLUTIONIZE, uh, streaming music!!!), Tidal doesn’t matter to the man’s legacy. Sure, it’d be nice , as…

On Monday Night Raw a few weeks ago, a loud contingent of pro wrestling fans found a new way to disrespect the women pro wrestlers in the ring. “You suck Cena!” they yelled, even though controversial World Wrestling Entertainment superstar John Cena wasn’t wrestling in the ring. Nikki Bella, the…

The world of podcasting has created its own stars, but few have more dedicated fans than Nick Kroll. After graduating from Georgetown in 2001, Kroll had the curious honor of starring in Cavemen , a rapidly cancelled sitcom based on the Geico Cavemen commercials. Kroll had much better luck as a…

MIX MASTER | Young Guru helped design a music curriculum at USC and speaks at companies like Pandora and BitTorrent. Photo: Photography by Brent Humphreys for WSJ. Magazine ON A COOL, RAINY afternoon in Austin, Texas, Young Guru—Jay-Z’s personal sound engineer for the past 16 years—was giving a…

by Isabel Slone If John Waters is the Pope of Trash , Kurt Cobain is the Pope of Teen Angst. My early punk days were spent loading quarters into the high school cafeteria jukebox just to hear the opening chords of “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Years later, I forwent Klimt’s “The Kiss” as my dorm room…

Most audiences think of the feature-length film as 90 minutes or longer. The 30-50 minute “medium length” film has proved something of a conundrum for the American festival and distribution landscape. But filmmakers who work within those restrictions have found plenty of benefits. “I don’t know…

About twenty five years ago, two German dance music producers and a U.S.-born rapper plucked from a nearby military base battled it out against Queen Latifah’s friend from Jersey and a tiny hip-hop label to prove who had “The Power” on global dancefloors. Despite the fact that they had used a…