I n prison, Rodney Jones told me, everyone had a nickname. Jones’s was Saint E’s, short for St. Elizabeths, the federal psychiatric hospital in Washington, best known for housing John Hinckley Jr. after he shot Ronald Reagan. Jones spent time there as well, having shown signs of mental illness from…

Don’t Look Now is a film that seems to get better with age. It’s almost impossible to pin down - equal parts psychological horror, moving family drama and sharp-as-cut-glass whodunit set on the dank, wintery streets of Venice – and is inarguably director Nicolas Roeg’s most influential film. Thanks…

Crazed fans smash through doors, windows and ceilings on Nirvana’s first world tour Follow Eleri Harris on Twitter @ elerimai Don’t miss a beat! Follow Cuepoint: Twitter | Facebook

By S.H. Fernando Jr. In February of 1984 , most of the world had never seen anything like it. As the camera panned across a thundering standing ovation at the 26th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, the thoroughly mind-blown expressions on the faces of Julio Iglesias, Latoya Jackson, and Brooke Shields…

Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong are China’s glamour triplets. Everybody knows them, everybody wants to see them (and hopefully snap a selfie). And yeah, they’re pretty fantastic. But did you know that China is home to an incredible 600+ cities, more than 160 of which have populations greater than a…

Brook Street in Louisville, a one-way road converted by the city into two directions in 2011. From Google Street View and J. Gilderbloom and W. Riggs. In John Gilderbloom's experience, the notorious streets are invariably the one-way streets. These are the streets lined with foreclosed homes and…

A tale of artistic freedom, copyright infringement, hypocrisy, and the music business Over the past several years , I’ve uploaded 50 tracks to my SoundCloud account — 18 of which are hip-hop remixes (five featuring Jay Z). Side note: I work in marketing. I make remixes in my free time. I’ve never…

Dear Past Zac, The year is 2015. I … well you, are older. In time, you’ll release two original EP’s on iTunes. You’ll get a remix and an original release published on Beatport. You’ll compose, arrange, and produce hundreds of tracks. You’ll use Kickstarter to create two successful albums and print…

From the vantage of 2015, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation can seem either up-to-the-minute prescient, a relevant commentary on the NSA and our surveillance state, or like some relic of the ancient past, when our privacy is routinely signed away on social media, or with insta-clicks of…

How “Montage of Heck” filmmaker Brett Morgen’s asymmetrical process helped Frances Bean discover the real Kurt About a decade ago , Courtney Love holed herself up in a loft in New York City for three months, shutting out the world during one of the many high-lows of her struggles with drug abuse. In…

Spring 2015 This Magic Moment Eight years after it aired, the finale of The Sopranos continues to be hotly debated. David Chase explains how he created the excruciating tension of the last scene. What he won't say is what happened at the end. By James Greenberg Was Tony Soprano's quiet meal with his…

Wages for Facebook Wages for Facebook The art campaign Wages for Facebook is an attempt to unsettle the digital marketization of our relationships that many of us have already come to accept as normal. ▪ Spring 2014 (Laurel Ptak/Courtesy of the artist) When visitors enter the University Art Gallery…

This Is Phil Fish Transcript Someone on MetaFilter mentioned that the Phil Fish video could use a transcript, so I’m posting one. I changed the phrasing in a few spots and there are a couple sentences that won’t make complete sense without the visuals, but it’s good enough for government work. You…

Loving relationships are the most important factor in a man’s happiness, success, and ability to live a fully flourishing life. And one of the most important factors in creating and sustaining these warm, intimate relationships is communication. Unfortunately, how to communicate with one’s…

W hen I was four or five, sometimes I'd walk into my grandmother's bedroom to find her weeping. She'd be sitting on the side of the bed, going through boxes of tissues. I don't believe this was a side of herself she shared with other people; she may have felt we had a cosmic bond because I had her…

The last time I talked to Stephen Glass, he was pleading with me on the phone to protect him from Charles Lane. Chuck, as we called him, was the editor of T he New Republic and Steve was my colleague and very good friend, maybe something like a little brother, though we are only two years apart in…

Clockwise from top: the digital stars KingBach, Tyler Oakley, Brittany Furlan, Joey Graceffa, and Cam and Nash. Illustration by Alex Williamson If you haven’t watched YouTube in a while—if you’ve joined the Amish, or you’re Edward Snowden—a lot has changed. Early on, the platform was a salmagundi of…

T wo detectives walk into a café in Helena. They remove their sunglasses. They dislodge the chaw from their cheeks. “We don’t flash our badges till we get the food,” Lawrence tells me. The other day, a Montana cop got a little surprise in his drive-through. Listening to Detectives Chad Lawrence and…

The GoPro short video is a post-literate diary, a stop on the way to a future in which everything will be filmed from every point of view. The pervasiveness of cameras, seemingly playful and benign, may be anything but. Courtesy GoPro Late one fall afternoon two years ago, Aaron Chase, a…

Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History by Richard J. Evans (Brandeis University Press) As everyone knows, the supreme court ruled six–three for Al Gore in the great dispute over the Florida recount in 2000. As everyone also knows, Gore emerged as the ultimate victor in that recount, and with his…

Annie Meikle: The Real Take Away Message from the News about #JianGhomeshi - 4 wmn won't go to police bc fear Q Fanatics. http://t.co/AcLhvCIEk5

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You and twelve other guests show up to a dinner party. You're each given a name and an explanation of how you're related to your fellow guests. Maybe you're gathered for a funeral, or a family reunion, or maybe it's just a normal Sunday dinner. Everybody eats and hangs out for four hours. The rest –…

After Tokyo’s bubble economy burst, the Roppongi district—once an upmarket quarter with exclusive nightlife—became known for its massage parlors and sex clubs, largely staffed by foreigners. It was here that I found myself, one steamy August night, sitting in a darkened strip joint while the police…

Photograph by AFP / Getty Seventy years ago this week, on April 12, 1945, while he was sitting for a portrait in Warm Springs, Georgia, President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke what were probably his last words—“I have a terrific headache”—and fainted. He died two hours later, of a cerebral hemorrhage.…

At 52, Jon Stewart has the bouncy energy of a man half his age and, unlike most in the public eye, has an aversion to compliments.Photograph: Jay Brooks for the Guardian T here was no one moment when Jon Stewart knew it was time for him to leave what he describes as “the most perfect job in the…

T here are some things Ringo believes. “If you are on a desert island and you have coconuts, you can survive.” There are some things Ringo can’t answer. Was “Taxman” recorded on four-track or eight-track? “Ask someone who knows. I only know I’m on it.” There are times when Ringo can be quite…

I n September 1992, I published my third book of photographs, “Immediate Family.” The book contained 60 photographs from a decade-­long series of more than 200 pictures of my children, Emmett, Jessie and Virginia, who were about 6, 4 and 1 when I started the project. The photographs show them going…

Published on April 11, 2015 O n a rainy night five years ago, Officer Coleman “Duke” Brackney set off in pursuit of a suspected drunk driver, chasing his black Mazda Miata down rural Arkansas roads at speeds of nearly 100 miles per hour. When the sports car finally came to rest in a ditch, Brackney…

If you knew where a million dollars' worth of blow was buried, would you go dig it up? Rodney Hyden would. We pick up the story at this critical juncture. I. Good goddamn, the way Julian told that story. It was the sort of story that imbued the mind with possibility. That lingered like campfire…

Introduction Good Morning Beautiful Hardware and Software Walk It Off Notifications, Music, Apple Pay Fashion Technology Featuring Racked Lost in the Meeting Zone Messaging, Siri, Digital Touch Business Time Apps and Performance Work It Out Health, Fitness, Activity Tracker Twilight of Attention…

Perhaps the most incredible thing about Juliette Binoche acting in a film by Olivier Assayas is that, until Summer Hours in 2008, it had never happened before. That it took so long for these two titans of contemporary French cinema to shoot something together is particularly surprising for a number…

Southwest Stallion Station sits on 1,300 acres of trampled grassland just east of Austin, a maze of white barns and pastures roamed by horses, goats and cattle. One morning in February 2010, a couple months after Lawson started in Laredo, he and another agent rumbled up the ranch's drive. They'd…