There are many forms of fuck at Bob Odenkirk’s disposal: the anguished, slow-motion version he emits while watching bad comedy (“It’s just a fffuckin’ mess!”), the whispered yet still damnably loud variant he uses when remembering one of his own terrible sketches (“The first draft of that Amish…

Photograph by Gus Stewart / Redferns via Getty Bob Dylan’s new album, “Shadows in the Night,” which comes out today, has been called his Frank Sinatra record. The album does include ten songs all originally recorded by Sinatra, but it’s maybe more accurate to think of it as a conscious return to the…

Miranda July at home in Los Angeles: 'There were rumours that a friend of mine accidentally kicked someone too hard in the head and killed him.' Photograph: Elizabeth Weinberg Miranda July is in the back of a New York cab wearing a polo-neck and a large parka, the fur of the hood neatly framing her…

The guilt you feel when you take part in the on-demand economy may be justified. Steve Calcott / Via Flickr: stevec77 Our washing machine is broken. Or, at least, the pipe it drains into is. Despite all my attempts to fix it, crawling around on my belly with a pipe wrench and a plumber's snake, all…

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — The ski jump sits shrouded in mist, its coat of snow undisturbed by any athletes hurtling down the ramp to take off into the air. A year ago, the jump bustled with activity at the Sochi Olympics as the world's best ski jumpers — including women, for the first time — competed for…

Harry Dean Stanton doesn’t get out much anymore. Stan Lee works too hard at enhancing the brand. Worst of all, Tommy Ramone is as dead as laser discs. Unless your lonesome cult worship of Bob Dole verges on psychotic, that leaves 67-year-old magician, self-appointed prestidigitation scholar, and…

As part of THR's special issue on NBC’s comedy series, the comedy kingpin reflects on the show's success, passing on Stephen Colbert, the season he’d do over and what kind of boss he really is: "Beloved," he jokes. A version of this story first appeared in the Feb. 13 issue of The Hollywood Reporter…

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As Better Call Saul gears up to launch on AMC on Sunday, three words likely to sow dread in Vince Gilligan and his cohorts’ hearts are Beverly Hills Buntz. Starring Dennis Franz, who went on to better things on NYPD Blue — and cocreated by David Milch, who did the same with not only Blue but…

Justin Peters on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Photo by Heidi Gutman/Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and TV Distribution It took about a second for me to realize I had made the biggest mistake of my life. There was a perceptible shift in the energy of the room, a subtle change in Terry Crews’ affect…

Michelle Sinclair (left) with Maya Rudolph and Joaquin Phoenix in Inherent Vice An unexpected standout among the star-studded cast of Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice is Michelle Sinclair, who until 2012 performed in adult videos under the name Belladonna. Sinclair plays Clancy Charlock, sister…

Illustration by Christoph Niemann In 2004, when Danny Meyer opened a burger stand named Shake Shack in Madison Square Park, it didn’t look like the foundation of a global empire. There was just one location, and Meyer was known for high-end venues like Gramercy Tavern. But the lines became…

Pauline Wayne, in front of the Executive office building, just doing her thing. National Journal In 1912, an un­named Wash­ing­ton Post re­port­er asked Pau­line Wayne, Pres­id­ent Taft’s cow, if she was milked by a stranger without her con­sent, as had been re­por­ted. “It is true, Miss Wayne?” the…

Timur Bekmambetov’s 2008 thriller Wanted was that year’s 18th top-grossing film, bringing in more than $130 million domestically, and another $200 million internationally. It opens with the following: A thousand years ago… A clan of weavers formed a secret society of assassins. They silently carried…

Courtesy Ulbricht Family. A jury has spoken, and the mask is off: Ross Ulbricht has been convicted of being the Dread Pirate Roberts, secret mastermind of the Silk Road online narcotics empire. On Wednesday, less than a month after his trial began in a downtown Manhattan courtroom, 30-year-old…

Matt Malone doesn't mind being called a professional dumpster diver. He tells me this a little after 2 am on the morning of July 7 as we cruise the trash receptacles behind the stores of a shopping center just off the Capital of Texas Highway in Austin. Given the image that conjures, though, it's…

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Rick Famuyiwa, Leslye Headland. Photo: Jeff Vespa/Getty Images If you watched the Super Bowl this past weekend, you no doubt caught the ad for one of this year's biggest movies: Jurassic World , the megabudget franchise restart directed by Colin Trevorrow. What film did…

Hannes Sjoblad The newly created cyborgs seem very happy to have been upgraded Darkness had fallen over Stockholm as a group of eight people entered Swahili Bobs, a tattoo parlour in the dark alleys of Sodermalm. By day there were tech entrepreneurs, students, web designers and IT consultants - but…

Arguments over microscopic differences in font size may seem petty, but the dimensions and placement of an artist's name on a music-festival poster is a matter of extreme importance -- and, often, intense negotiation -- to the talent buyers, acts, and agents who represent them. Though not all admit…

Want to gain entry to your office, get on a bus, or perhaps buy a sandwich? We're all getting used to swiping a card to do all these things. But at Epicenter, a new hi-tech office block in Sweden, they are trying a different approach - a chip under the skin. Felicio de Costa, whose company is one of…

With anilingus currently in so many editorial spreads and on the tip of so many tongues, it bears noting that Mozart wrote a song about eating ass. Titled “Leck mich im Arsch,” which literally translates to “ Lick me in the ass ,” it’s the sort of song that might be referred to as a “bawdy ode” or a…

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#BreakTheInternet? On November 11th 2014, the art-and-nightlife magazine PAPER “broke the Internet” when it put a Jean-Paul Goude photograph of a well-oiled, mostly-nude Kim Kardashian on its cover and posted the same nude photos of Kim Kardashian to its website (NSFW). It linked together all of…

Preet Bharara goes to war. Carlo Allegri / Reuters Preet Bharara stood out first not for his early prosecutions of bankers and local pols — aggressive, but not unusual for an office with an aggressive tradition — but for his rather edgy sense of humor. It was the summer of 2013, and Preet was the…

After nearly every death, the police announced that the person the officer had shot was violent, a career criminal, or mentally ill. Illustration by Oliver Munday Stephen Torres was meeting with a client at his law office, in downtown Albuquerque, on April 12, 2011, when he received a call from a…

A few months before she died, my grandmother made a decision. Bobby, as her friends called her (theirs is a generation of nicknames), was a farmer’s wife who not only survived World War II but also found in it justification for her natural hoarding talent. ‘Waste not, want not’ was a principle she…

When Life is Strange is released on Jan. 30, publisher Square Enix will also make a free playable demo available. It's a taster of the first 20-minutes or so of this Telltale-style episodic adventure. Life is Strange is the story of a high school student who returns to her hometown after a five-year…

Inside the studio where ESPN is betting billions on the future of sports "Oh my goodness," NBC football analyst Cris Collinsworth shouts into his headset mic over the roar of the MetLife Stadium crowd. "This is sick. Put this to music. I don't think he stepped out, either. That may be the greatest…

Note: In yesterday’s Churchill School of Adulthood lesson , we offered examples from Winston’s life as to how he embodied artist Constantin Brancuși ’s maxim that to live a fulfilling, flourishing life, one must “ Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god .” Because the takeaways of…

How one gifted rapper endured triumph and tragedy to discover his own complicated voice By Brian Coleman It’s not a radical thing to say that MF Doom is a pretty damned interesting MC. He is never-endingly engaging, hyper intelligent and his flow has an off-beat power and allure to it that is…

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The first time I ever wrote anything about games, it was because I was still brokenhearted about a relationship that had dissolved years ago. PC Gamer edited the 4000 word essay into a six pager about Dota in 2012 and it is still one of the best things I have ever written. But wherever I go,…

Dave Catchpole/Flickr Every once in a while, I am asked what I “make.” A hack day might require it, or a conference might ask me to describe “what I make” so it can go on my name tag. I’m always uncomfortable with it. I’m uncomfortable with any culture that encourages you take on an entire identity,…

Nod’s black-tar heroin had a certain sweetness to it. Many customers fell in love at first taste. After all, they’d been through a lot. Before Nod, many of Silk Road ’s previous heroin vendors were notoriously unreliable. Old dealers on the Deep Web black market—accessible only through the Tor…

A still from “What Happened, Miss Simone?,” a documentary about the singer and civil-rights icon Nina Simone. Courtesy Sundance Institute On the opening night of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, two films, as usual, had their premières, gaining maximum exposure to reporters and critics. The first…

With statehood, New York City would take its place on the United States flag as the 51st star. But what would be the consequences? Image © Mike Brown Stuart Sutton, 42, is walking with his son down the streets of Harlem on a hot afternoon. “My son did it all! Pre-K, Head Start, kindergarten. It’s…

When I give a basic definition of my chosen genre, written erotica, I usually say, “writing intended to arouse.” But what does that look like in terms of safer sex? Do erotica and erotic romance writers owe their readers the courtesy of making their characters act responsibly when it comes to birth…

Croatia's new Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic speaks before parliament in Zagreb. (REUTERS/Nikola Solic) Starting Monday, thousands of Croatia's poorest citizens will benefit from an unusual gift: They will have their debts wiped out. Named "fresh start," the government scheme aims to help some of…