Photo: Photos by Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate, Tristar Pictures Furious 7 , the early front-runner for Best Picture , was just over halfway done with its primary shoot when Paul Walker died in a car crash in November 2013. Replacing Walker, one of the two major faces of the franchise (along with…

Scorsese and De Niro on the set of Taxi Driver . Photo: Steve Schapiro Last week, for its annual “Yesteryear” issue, New York Magazine published " New York After Midnight ," a celebration of the city after dark from a variety of writers and cultural figures. In honor of that, we went to the man who…

Amazon’s new Dash Button , which will allow shoppers to reorder frequently used domestic products like laundry detergent or paper towels with the click of a real-life button, is not a joke. Many people assumed it was, mostly because the announcement came the day before April Fool’s, but also because…

High-resolution music has been in the news over the past few days. Neil Young’s Pono, recently announced, is a new music player designed to play high-resolution music files.[1] Pono will also have a music store; users will be able to buy high-resolution music files and sync them to the Pono Player,…

In the early 1990s, debates were raging in playgrounds across the land about which was better: the Super Nintendo or the Sega Genesis . I was in Nintendo's corner, defending their legendary 16-bit console to a group of friends who had sworn their allegiance to Sega. I didn't know exactly why it was…

Best Stuff Best Stuff The 16 Best New Menswear Items to Buy This Week GQ ’s editors pick the freshest menswear, sneakers, watches and more worth your disposable income. 17 Photos 7 hours ago View More Don't Miss! Style Style A Very Good Case for Wearing Your Effed-Up White Sneakers with Everything…

Working for Columbia House had its benefits I was recruited by CBS Records out of grad school to move to New York City and become a marketing planner for them. Not in a fancy, cool division, but in a backwater subsidiary named Columbia House which had a racket where by enrolling you could get a…

点击 此处 阅读中文版 I've broken this story up into three chapters. It should never have gone this far, but the internet works in mysterious ways. None of this should have ever happened. It makes absolutely no sense at all. It's truly crazy. Chris Ritter for BuzzFeed LONG, LONG AGO (January 2014 lol)... Bro…

It’s often said that WrestleMania is the Super Bowl of pro wrestling, the end of the wrestling year. Just as much as ’ Mania marks the close of one season, it’s the beginning of the next. And so at Sunday’s pay-per-view and on Monday’s Raw , we saw WWE lurch into its new season. The three top titles…

This week, Jay Z debuted Tidal , a streaming music service whose makers say it offers better sound quality and something called a “curated editorial” experience. Which, we guess, means people are picking music for you. You know, kinda like the radio. That whole package will cost you $20 a month,…

Jump to Robert Kirkman, if not yet a household name, probably should be. He is the writer behind the long-running, award-winning comic book The Walking Dead , and one of the people who helped shepherd that comic into what has become the most watched basic cable television show in history. And like…

Universal There was a time when I had seen but one and a half movies in the Fast & Furious franchise . I had always been skeptical of the films' powers, perhaps because I had only seen 2 Fast 2 Furious (easily the worst installment) and Fast Five — without sound, while on a plane (still pretty…

Fat Men, Little Coats: The Oral History of Tommy Boy “To this day, people stop me on the street and say they love Tommy Boy. It’s the ultimate movie for fifteen-year-old boys. And if you compare Tommy Boy to what they’re making today for fifteen-year-old boys, it’s the fucking Magnificent…

Richard Branson in Mojave, California, in 2010. Behind him, SpaceShipTwo hangs from the twin-fuselage mother ship, WhiteKnightTwo. Photograph by Jonas Fredwall Karlsson. I. The Unthinkable Commercial passenger service to space is a difficult proposition. To succeed, it has to contend with the pull…

Getty Images The craziest Bitcoin saga in history just got a whole lot crazier. On Monday, the Justice Department charged Carl Mark Force IV, a former DEA agent with 15 years of service at the agency, and Shaun Bridges, 32, with committing numerous instances of fraud while playing lead roles in the…

Photo: Ben Gabbe/Getty Images Alex Gibney’s two-hour-long exploration of Scientology, Going Clear , premieres tonight on HBO. Based on Lawrence Wright's book by the same name, Gibney speaks with former leaders and defectors of the church for the documentary, which gives the unacquainted a primer on…

Will Jay-Z’s new streaming service deliver real change — or just more of the same? [Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images For Roc Nation] What is Tidal? If you cared enough to click the link, you probably know that Tidal is the streaming music service, owned by Jay-Z and a number of other high profile…

with Stretch Armstrong One of the biggest eureka moments for me as a music-obsessed teen was learning about multi-track recording. It explained so much. Could Alex Van Halen’s hands be so fast that they could hit two drums almost at the same time? I never actually believed that, but how else could…

Getty Image The story of NewsRadio ’s five-season run on NBC is so full of intrigue and drama that it could be its own series. Twenty years ago this week, the employees of the fictional AM news station WNYX found their way into our living rooms, and the show was unlike anything that NBC had aired to…

Written by on Feb 25, 2015 Much like his heroes, Joshua Davis, known to the masses as DJ Shadow, has been breaking ground for decades. Whether he’s making music that inspired one UK journalist to coin the term “trip-hop” or entering the Guinness Book of Records for creating the first album made…

An illustration of Andy Rubin Mike Nudelman/Business Insider In 2004, Andy Rubin made an urgent call to his friend, Steve Perlman. Rubin's startup, Android, was in trouble, he explained. Rubin didn't like asking for money again, but the situation was dire. Android, which was creating mobile software…

"When we have to sneeze in our spacesuit, we lean our heads forward and sneeze into our chest, to keep it from splattering on the visor." (NASA/Michael Edward Fossum) Very few people know what it's like to live in space. Only 538 people — out of a population of more than 7 billion — have had the…

Amen, Brother was a little-known B-side released in 1969. Barely noticed at the time, its drum solo has been hugely influential, appearing in different forms in more than 1,500 other songs - but the band behind it never made any money from it. "It felt like plagiarism and I felt ripped off and…

Encarni Pindado Daniel Craig and the cast and crew of the upcoming 007 film "Spectre" have transformed Mexico City's main square into an action-packed thrill ride filled with explosions, chases and a massive Day of the Dead parade that included more than a thousand extras. A few weeks ago, the…

The hip-hop messiah is both real and not real. He — and with the possible exception of Lauryn Hill, it has always been a “he” — is real in the sense that every five years or so, whenever hip-hop feels too boring, or, worse, too corporate , an artist will be appointed as the spiritual future of the…

Savoring the playable records once found on cereal boxes, inside magazines and at fast food counters By Oliver Wang E veryone remembers their first flexi disc. For collector Michael Cumella, it was finding an Archies record embedded onto the back of his Sugar Pops cereal box. “I did that whole thing…

Jamin Warren, founder of Kill Screen Magazine and host of PBS Game/Show has a dense 10-minute look at wargames that is worth your time if you play games, or are a citizen of any country that has ever been at war. So basically everyone should watch this. Warren nimbly charts the course of wargaming…

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The best sitcom of the 1990s was NewsRadio . This is a high honor. The '90s featured a host of great sitcoms. There was Seinfeld and Roseanne and Frasier and Friends and The Larry Sanders Show , all shows that are the ancestors of so many great shows on the air right now. (They also had the golden…

What’s the best sitcom of the 1990s? Most would argue “Seinfeld,” some “Friends,” maybe a few wiseacres “The Larry Sanders Show.” But ask someone who really knows their stuff, and you might get a different answer: “NewsRadio,” which starred Dave Foley as the harried general manager of a New York…

Trotting through a pack of struggle teens on my way to interview Killer Mike and El-P at Stubb's in Austin, I checked my purse to make sure I had the weed. Festival press is so un-chill—everyone's hungover or fucked-up and it's more inconvenience and repetition in a day already stuffed with both—and…

It was 20 years ago this week that Eazy E cruised to that great safehouse in the sky. I’ll never forget first hearing the news that he had AIDS and was dying in Cedars-Sinai. The radio station, 92.3 The Beat, kept public vigil. Dre and Cube and Bone Thugs reportedly filed in to pay last respects to…

The average automobile today isn’t necessarily secured against hackers, so much as obscured from them: Digitally controlling a car’s electronics remains an arcane, specialized skill among security researchers. But that’s changing fast. And soon, it could take as little as $60 and a laptop to begin…

NYT Business: Oil prices plummet; why don't airline tickets? “We are unquestionably living with an air travel oligopoly.” http://t.co/ITFZ6t2dAi

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee Norton, 306 pp, £17.99, January 2014, ISBN 978 0 393 23935 5 Average Is Over: Powering America beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen Plume, 290 pp, £12.99,…

1:35 A.M. A Tuesday Ernie Booth, the operations manager of the main printing plant of The New York Times , is walking the floor. The plant is a 515,000-square-foot building in Queens, on the Van Wyck Expressway, half a mile from LaGuardia Airport. Booth is a big man with enthusiasm to match his…

The Long Read: Read @OliverBullough's "Welcome to the most corrupt country in Europe" - nominated for a Corruption Reporting Award http://t.co/MONZJjnlxa