Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Photo: Courtesy of ANTI- Records Neko Case is a magician on stage, possessed of the power to completely transform each venue she plays. Case in point (sorry, had to): Back in May, Case played a twilight set at the Sasquatch! Festival, and turned the massive…

Ubisoft published a gameplay trailer for Assassin's Creed Unity in which 15 people are stabbed to death, mostly via wounds to the neck and throat. It's okay if that makes you uncomfortable. The two-minutes of footage is trimmed from an extended gameplay demonstration shown last month at E3. It's…

Editor’s note: This article was originally posted in July 2014. As the TSA Instagram feed continues to document bizarre paraphernalia in airplane carry-on luggage, we’ve updated our gallery with new images to celebrate the day before Thanksgiving — infamously known as one of the busiest travel days…

Off Grid is a game about privacy in the digital age. Which means it’s also a game about the presence of an absence. This paradox at the heart of Off Grid became clear even as Rich Metson and I were trying to work out a time to talk about his team’s game. Our conversation—planned on Google’s servers,…

50. THE FOUNTAINHEAD (1949) Ayn Rand’s doorstopping tract on architecture and morality – with Gary Cooper as master builder and Patricia Neal as a whip-cracking heiress – is a masterpiece of modernist design, and its eccentricity feels entirely right. 49. OPEN YOUR EYES (1997) The template for the…

T he first track on “Weird Al” Yankovic’s 14th studio album, Mandatory Fun , is “Handy,” a do-it-yourself-themed parody of Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy,” because of course it is. Songs like “Fancy” have been Weird Al’s bread and butter for decades. “Fancy” is inarguably popular, reigning as our nation’s top…

Early in James Gunn’s 2000 novel The Toy Collector , the protagonist, a drunken, thieving, rage-filled addict, scammer, and toy junkie named “James Gunn,” gets dressed down by his more-responsible brother Tar, who, in a fit of exasperation, tells him, “I grew out of toys, Jimmy. I grew out of GI…

Ten years from now, transportation in Helsinki may operate very differently from the current system. Few want to own their own car in future, when everything can be shared. If one wishes to travel from Puotila to Pukinmäki, the "route planner" of 2025 will provide information on where to change the…

Washington DC-area residents with a hankering for lion meat lost a valuable source of the (yes, legal ) delicacy last year when a restaurant called the Serbian Crown closed its doors after nearly 40 years in the same location. The northern Virginia eatery served French and Russian cuisine in a…

Eric Thayer/Getty Images The stock market draws human stupidity the way a black hole sucks in starlight. The dotcom bubble of the late 20th century remains the iconic example; this week, we got a small reminder of what those dumb days were like thanks to Cynk Technology. Cynk is an apparently…

The Summer Movie Season as we know it died on November 7, 2013. That was the fateful day on which it was announced that Star Wars Episode VII: The Phantom Click-Bait was being delayed from May 2015 to December 2015, making J.J. Abrams’ sequel the first mainline installment not to open during…

david carr: The naughty boys of South Park do an exclusive deal with Hulu http://t.co/QOpOfwJiLa I talk to Matt Stone about what we learned today.

Image: Wikimedia Commons Penny auctions are known for deals—or sketchy promises of deals—on consumer electronics like iPads or headphones, but, now, an American company is stepping it up a notch by offering gun enthusiasts the opportunity to bid on discounted ammo. Whether it’s rounds for your…

Image: Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Regardless of what you think of their music, there's no denying Aerosmith are nigh unparalleled trend jumping pop-portunists. Starting in the early '70s, they rode from Rolling Stones rip-off rock, to stadium rock, to Huey-Lewis and the News-style soundtrack rock, and…

'Wealth cultivates attitudes that are against redistribution and for privilege.' Photograph: Aurora Photos/Alamy C all it the asshole effect. That is the term coined by US psychologist Paul Piff after he did some stunning new research into the effects of wealth and inequality on people’s attitudes.…

“You’ve got to see that on the big screen.” In the decades before broadcast and videotape came along, this statement was meaningless. There was no other way to see that , other than on the big screen. And even after home viewing took off, no one could argue that the experience was remotely…

Grantland: Four Lessons From This Year’s Disastrous Fourth of July Box Office, by @jedgarlopez http://t.co/suMzHJglAA

Hear that sound? That mixture of purring vintage engines, whistling cappuccino-machine steam, twinkling hotel-lounge jazz, and self-satisfied laughter? It’s a new season of Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee , Jerry Seinfeld’s stunningly popular celebration of showbiz and product placement. The web…

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First, the plain, strange facts (which you may already know): on Thursday, July 3rd, a young man in Columbus, Ohio, by the name Zack (Danger) Brown launched a campaign on Kickstarter, the crowdfunding Web site, to raise money to make potato salad. He offered no business plan or proof of concept.…

American dinner table rules are simple and standard: Don’t discuss religion, politics, or money. Money is especially lewd. Money makes people evil, petty, wretched. Still, we want it. We like seeing pictures of Beyoncé on her yacht. We like that fabulous diamond chain that is mysteriously attached…

Grantland: The Movies of 1994: Looking Back at the 'Forrest Gump' Sweep, by @Wesley_Morris http://t.co/uiE6NvlGJr

When you visit the Museu do Futebol in São Paulo, you are at one point obliged to enter a long, narrow, pitch-black room, in which the increasingly loud pounding of a heartbeat plays heavily over concealed speakers as images of the Maracanazo—Brazil's infamous loss in the final of the 1950 World Cup…

“Quality television is now platform agnostic,” crowed Television Academy Chairman and CEO Bruce Rosenblum just before the sun rose over Hollywood this morning. He then launched into a list of all the different devices we use to watch the programs that were, until just a short time ago, limited to a…

So you want to own a masterpiece? It’s easy! In part two in this series about artistic authenticity, we explore how to score that painting you have always wanted. “Christ and the Adulteress,” not Vermeer I still wanted my Vermeer. In part one of this series, we reflected on the status of the 35, or…

Can anyone own a masterpiece? In part one in this series about artistic authenticity, five very dissimilar people share a common desire: To own a Vermeer. “Selfie-Portrait,” attributed to Mitchell Grafton, unverified. 1. Rex’s Vermeer I wanted a Vermeer. I knew this would not be easy. Johannes…

In the mid ‘90s, Robin Williams was starting to take some risks. He had just filmed two crowd-pleasers in a row – ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ and ‘Jumanji’ – and it was apparent that he was looking for something, let’s say, meatier. Williams would later find those roles with ‘The Birdcage’ and ‘Good Will…

T here are approximately 100 compact discs on my desk right now. Behind me are two racks holding another 2,000 discs. In my basement, there’s an additional couple thousand, and in my mother’s basement there are about a dozen boxes holding hundreds more of my passionately adored glorified coasters. I…

During the second season of ‘Seinfeld’ – on Wednesday, December 12, 1990, to be more exact – the cast sat down to read through the script for what would be the fourth episode of the season and only the ninth episode of a series that would go on to produce a total of 180 episodes. The episode was…

Grantland: The Battle for the Best Sports Movie Villain of All Time http://t.co/dEOrReGHns

A central argument for privatizing British Columbia’s ferry system was that a strict business model would prove far more efficient than continuing the system under provincial control. Instead, the privatized model has yielded bloated management, lack of transparency, increasingly inefficient…

Grantland: A Tale of Two Tinkerers: Is J.K. Rowling Becoming This Generation's George Lucas? by @netw3rk http://t.co/tHlxJtDll8

Grantland: It's 'Breaking Bad,' But in Spanish, and In Colombia. And It's Still Perfect. By @SheaSerrano http://t.co/RHpGtkyoOs

DH A HUGE MEDIA ORGY IS WATCHING OUR LEGAL POT ROLL-OUT What they'll see is a system suffering from errors in implementation at the state level People are rejoicing that pot stores are opening today— pot stores, for god’s sake —and rejoicing certainly seems appropriate. For too long, pot laws have…

In her audition for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (in theaters Friday) stunt actress Janene Carleton had to prove that she could ride a horse — something she'd been doing competitively since childhood — but in an "ape-like" position. "You just have to hunch your shoulders and squat down a little…

Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is a coming-of-age movie like no other—but it’s not exactly a Richard Linklater movie like no other. The groundbreaking new film, shot over the course of 12 years using the same actors, shares a number of traits with the director’s earlier efforts: it was filmed entirely…

In the upcoming game Virginia , you can sit down in a diner and enjoy a cup of coffee "black as midnight on a moonless night," as if you were Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks . Over the past year or so there's been a wave of games strongly inspired by television , but while studios like Telltale…