Updated at 2:45 p.m. ET on October 28, 2021 In science fiction, the end of the world is a tidy affair. Climate collapse or an alien invasion drives humanity to flee on cosmic arks , or live inside a s
Colin Powell and ‘Guernica’ Oct. 23, 2021, 11:00 a.m. ET Credit... Elise Amendola/Associated Press By Opinion Columnist WASHINGTON — If we could unlock the puzzle of Colin Powell, maybe we could under
Charles M. Blow Biden, Tepid in the Face of Catastrophe Oct. 24, 2021, 3:02 p.m. ET Credit... Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times By Opinion Columnist After months of tiptoeing around the issue of
No Mercy/No Malice Digital ad fraud could be a $150 billion business by 2025, which would make it the largest criminal enterprise after the drug trade Scott Galloway 5 days ago · 7 min read If Edward
The things I took for granted in the Netherlands before I moved abroad include commuting by bicycle, an abundance of very old buildings, and fashionable raincoats. Something I never considered missing
I first noticed that something weird was happening this past spring. In April, the number of workers who quit their job in a single month broke an all-time U.S. record. Economists called it the “Great
Ted Sarandos, co-CEO and CCO of Netflix , recently reiterated his support of “ The Closer ,” a new stand-up special from Dave Chappelle , in the face of continued controversy over the transphobic mate
At this point, the maddeningly unpredictable Delta variant has changed the expected course of the coronavirus pandemic so much that it can be hard to know exactly what you’re waiting for, or if you sh
An ultrarealistic split-unit air-conditioner in its capsule made by Toys Cabin. Credit... Noriko Hayashi for The New York Times Isolated in their plastic spheres, pint-size reproductions of everyday i
After this year's Mercury Prize ceremony had wrapped up, Laura Mvula found herself in tears in a hotel room. Nominated for a rare third time - she has never released an album that hasn't been shortlis
From the beginning, the dichotomy between women and men is established in Michael Mann ’s sprawling, epic masterpiece “ Heat, ” twenty-five years old this month. However, its central thesis about the
in Food & Drink, History | September 28th, 2021 1 Comment Three men feast on free lunch in a drawing by Charles Dana Gibson In one of my favorite episodes of The Simpsons , beer-swilling Homer falls i
Early on in “ Thief ,” Michael Mann ’s 1981 feature debut, James Caan ’s Frank stares out at a body of water enveloped by a sky that seems to go on forever. He’s just returned from another successful
Wednesday Night Movie Club Spend an evening with Vulture, every Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET on Twitter. Photo: Universal Pictures At regular but sometimes unpredictable intervals, Vulture selects a film to
Photo via Brian B+ Cross and Jason Williams Our tireless team of writers stay typing until the early onset stages of carpal tunnel hit just so you can get your daily dose of the best independent music
I s it just me, or does it feel like America is running out of everything? I visited CVS last week to pick up some at-home COVID-19 tests. They’d been sold out for a week, an employee told me. So I as
Universal Pictures/Ringer illustration In No Time to Die , Daniel Craig’s James Bond exudes weariness in every scene. Bond is, in modern parlance, kind of washed. His 007 moniker is given to a new MI6
Before Daniel Craig arrived, James Bond hadn’t made sense for years. That’s not just because the character’s original conception — a borderline sadist who used and discarded women while eating elabora
When emcee Vince Staples released his self-titled fourth album this summer, the introspective project continued Staples’ path as a picture painter with vivid lyrics about his upbringing in Long Beach,
When Rod Thill graduated college in 2013, “everyone,” he remembers, “wanted to work at a startup .” Thill, who’s better known as @rod on TikTok , where he creates content focused on explaining the mil
TikTok is getting into NFTs . Twitter is thinking about it too . NFTs - non-fungible tokens are somehow back in the spotlight after dipping out once the NBA Topshots market dropped. If you don’t know
Sid Meier is famous for creating the video game Civilization. He’s also known for having his name on the box. Meier released Civilization thirty years ago this month, after developing it with Bruce Sh
Michael K. Williams made you believe.
Michael K. Williams made you believe in Omar Little, a legendary Baltimore stickup man so fearsome that when he strolled to the bodega in a silk robe to buy Honey Nut Cheerios for his boyfriend, kids shouted “Omar comin’!,” their elders scattered like pigeons,…
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T he young are hungry and the rich are on the menu. This delicacy first appeared in the 18th century, when the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau supposedly declared: “When the people shall have no mor
Guest Essay The Question Michael K. Williams Asked Before Every Season of ‘The Wire’ Sept. 12, 2021, 9:57 a.m. ET Michael K. Williams was “one of the most careful and committed actors of our age,” wri
Lars Tunbjörk / Agence VU / Redux A merica has too many managers. In a 2016 Harvard Business Review analysis , two writers calculated the annual cost of excess corporate bureaucracy as about $3 trilli
We live in an age of baroque album rollouts. Drake had his billboards . Kanye had his troika of gaudy stadium shows, including a literal homecoming in Chicago . But it’s hard to make a case that eithe
Magazine Pummeled by unemployment, Las Vegas tried to reopen without widespread vaccination. Here’s what the city learned. The brand new Resorts World Casino is seen in Las Vegas in July, 2021. | STRF
As a millennial who’s publicly posted about the perils of capitalism for years, Laura was used to guys sliding into her DMs to debate free healthcare for all. But recently, the influx has been noticea
An Appraisal He may have been best known for his work on “Saturday Night Live,” but he should be really remembered for decades of club sets and you-can’t-miss-this clips. Norm Macdonald on his 2017 Ne
I n 2013 a Silicon Valley software engineer decided that food is an inconvenience—a pain point in a busy life. Buying food, preparing it, and cleaning up afterwards struck him as an inefficient way to
About 15 minutes into the third episode of The Wire , Omar Little is sitting on a stoop with two of his crew members. One of the men, Brandon, is under Omar’s arm, his head leaning on Omar’s chest. Th
Spike Lee cannot wait for the picture to begin. He wants to have you in his custody from the moment you learn the name of the “joint.” It is possible that, among all of Lee’s projects, “NYC Epicenters
“O h “Oh my god.” These were the words of Nick Thorburn, the main creative force of the band Islands (and composer of the original Serial theme), when someone on Twitter kindly informed him in June th
The filmmaker’s epic new documentary series, “NYC Epicenters 9/11-2021½,” is an alternately mournful and irreverent tribute to New York. Spike Lee interviewed more than 200 people for a new docuseries
Moviegoing is at a strange, tenuous moment. With pandemic fears still circulating, and many studios still delaying their films’ release dates , not everyone is comfortable going back to theaters yet.
First comes a whistled tune—“The Farmer in the Dell,” delivered with extra menace. Then the sight of him—Omar Little, played by Michael K. Williams, stalking the streets of Baltimore in a billowing du
” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. E very year, Gallup asks a sample of American adults what might seem to be a rather loaded question: How much do you
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