The Hateful Eigh t: Live Read Director: Quentin Tarantino (210 Minutes including intermission) Screenwriter: Quentin Tarantino Performed Live at the Theatre at the Ace Hotel, April 19, 2014 Until this weekend, Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight was a textbook example of the stages of Hollywood…

Image: Flickr/Jeffrey Smith Resale used to be the natural start and end point of a track’s lifecycle. You’d buy a CD (or a cassette tape, or a record), listen to it to your heart’s content and then, when it just wasn’t cool any more and you fancied supplementing your pocket money a little, you’d…

Peggy Sirota Comedy is subjective, but not with Louis C.K. He's the funniest man alive, and we don't want any of your lip about it The greatest jokes, Louis C.K. tells me, never register as jokes. Not quite. The punch line of a great joke may punctuate it and make people laugh, "but it doesn’t solve…

Game of Thrones is a massive hit for HBO, both in terms of the raw numbers of people watching and the cultural impact the show has had on television in general. It maintains the cable channel’s status as the home of prestige television, as HBO is a place you go when you want to keep up with what…

Laurie Penny: Last year I wrote a piece about being polyamorous and what it means, for the Guardian. People've been reposting. http://t.co/E5eSqEBFMD

The twist comes with Guetta's transformation from the movement's accidental video scribe into Mr. Brainwash, a street artist phenomenon whose 2008 coming-out party in Los Angeles made him an instant — if completely derivative — success, and whose art now sells in the six figures. The camera captures…

The October afternoon before he is to fight the American, Thub Hong-Mo sits cross-legged on the floor of his Bangkok prison cell, watching soap operas on an old Chinese TV set. It is a rare moment of respite for the 30-year-old, who has spent the past two months – seven days a week, six hours a day…

Matt Rourke/AP Police officers guarded the entrance to Franklin Street in Watertown where there was a search for Boston Marathon bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. by Scott Helman and Jenna Russell, to be published by Dutton, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, a Penguin Random House company, on…

Before the collapse of the U.S. financial system in 2008, Brad Katsuyama could tell himself that he bore no responsibility for that system. He worked for the Royal Bank of Canada, for a start. RBC might have been the fifth-biggest bank in North America, by some measures, but it was on nobody’s…

Shortly after 7 a.m. on a chilly morning at the Rosh Hanikra military base in northernmost Israel, Lieutenant Colonel Yogev Bar Sheshet was already on his third Diet Coke. He apologized for his jumpiness. “I don’t sleep much anymore,” he said. A thin man with close-cropped hair and wire-rimmed…

⋆ Rec Recommend this Post 5 Back when he was World Wrestling Entertainment's lead play-by-play announcer, Jim Ross didn't mind surprises. As Executive VP of Talent Relations, he already knew who would win the scripted matches, but favored being kept in the dark on details such as whether a wrestler…

Future president George H. W. Bush meets Babe Ruth. Since William Howard Taft in 1910, there has been a tradition of the President of the United States throwing out ceremonial first pitches. This has most often been done on Opening Day in Washington or Baltimore, depending on where on the continuum…

French economist Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century. 'I am not political.' Photograph: Ed Alcock for the Observer T he École d'économie de Paris (the Paris School of Economics) is actually situated in the most un-Parisian part of the city. It is on the boulevard Jourdan in…

RuPaul rules over RuPaul's Drag Race , a show with a lot of similarities to another Monday night show: WWE Raw . Mathu Anderson/Logo Every Monday night, TV gives itself over to a mass of preening, posturing men, indulging in petty backbiting. Some are decked out in elaborate costumes, most are…

Imagine going into an espresso bar, as I did in Tokyo, ordering a single shot, and being told that it's not on offer. The counter at No. 8 Bear Pond may feature the shiniest, spiffiest, newest La Marzocco, as well as a Rube Goldberg–esque water-filtration system, but the menu, which lists lattes and…

A couple of years ago I found myself in a basement bar in Yoyogi, a central precinct of Tokyo, drinking cold Sapporo beers with big foamy heads while the salarymen next to me raised their glasses to a TV displaying a fuzzy, obviously bootlegged video of an old Bob Dylan concert. The name of the bar,…

D avid Gordon Green’s new movie Joe , in theaters this weekend, is a bleakly funny rural noir about an ex-convict trying very hard to keep his rage in check. Because Joe is played by Nicolas Cage, you can imagine how well that goes. We believe in Joe’s struggle to maintain control because we’re also…

Grantland: .@BillSimmons on the world’s most exclusive club — only 30 rich guys can say they own an NBA franchise http://t.co/g8EoOxp3Vw

The thought of entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work in Nirvana barely even entered Dave Grohl ’s head until shortly after he walked offstage at last year’s ceremony in Los Angeles after inducting Rush and jamming with them on “2112.” “I did a quick interview and someone said, ‘Are…

Clive Thompson: The fascinating, crazy, wild-west ferment of entrepreneurs in Detroit right now: http://t.co/SehzgYgZdj (Great @StacyCowley piece)

Grantland: Whose World: The strange, wistful 20th anniversary of Nas’s ‘Illmatic,’ by @brothernumpsa http://t.co/LSzFzgFBtD

Grantland: Saving Tiger Stadium — Meet the dedicated Detroiters who resurrected a forgotten ballpark http://t.co/OSjbCtZvM9

Davey D: RT @IndustryEars: #6 Ways to Stop Your Child from Being Brainwashed By Mainstream Rap http://t.co/b6tXsJinfg

Now that BioShock: The Collection is here, we thought it might be interesting to revisit the original game's troubled development. Enjoy! 25th January 2007 was a cold day, even by the harsh standards of a Boston winter. That morning, a dozen senior members of BioShock's beleaguered development team…

Clive Thompson: The NASDAQ of sneakers: http://t.co/YFVsS0NFns

Clive Thompson: How clicking "like" on a brand might void your ability to sue them: http://t.co/T4GR3SbKJ7

Style/Storytelling Nathan: A lot of big-name directors and actors were attached to American Psycho at various times , most notably Oliver Stone, before a relatively inexperienced, unknown director named Mary Harron ended up with the job. Harron gives the film an almost Kubrickian coldness and…

Every now and again I'll come across a QR code, typically in an ad targeted at someone in my general demographic but clearly created by someone that just has no idea about anything. Advertising for e-cigarettes and bad music festivals seem like probable domains for this DOA technology. QR codes just…

Clive Thompson: Hacking the sun to get more sunlight: Not as easy as it might seem, as a Norwegian town discovers -- http://t.co/Zuhy1Ziag5

XXL Magazine: .@MCSerch has a lot of stories about @nas' 'Illmatic' days, and we asked him all about it http://t.co/HUFGppoR1C

Words by Daniel Isenberg ( @StanIpcus ) For those of us who love music, there are certain albums that we will always hold near and dear to our hearts. For me, Gang Starr’s fourth LP Hard to Earn , which turns 20 tomorrow, is one of those albums. I was 15 when Guru and DJ Premier released Hard to…

Playmates Once Upon a Time in the West With Playmate Chelsie Aryn Drive off into the sunset with March 2015 Playmate Chelsie Aryn Once Upon a Time in the West With Playmate Chelsie Aryn FEATURED ARTICLES ICYMI: FEATURED ON PLAYBOY'S INSTAGRAM Previous Article Next Article PLAYMATE OF THE MONTH…

It was the coupling that made a million grown men’s hearts race: RZA and Quentin Tarantino. The legendary producer would be scoring two films for the legendary filmmaker. Uma Thurman playing “The Bride,” a beautiful, badass assassin avenging herself by slaying an equally beautiful, badass slew of…

Roman Polanski revels in recounting the story of how he met his wife, actress Emmanuelle Seigner , to whom he has been married for 25 years, and who is the mother of his two children. The year was 1985, and Polanski was in pre-production on “Pirates,” the problem-plagued, big-budget adventure comedy…

Nicolas Cage, left, stars with Tye Sheridan right, in “Joe,” a character study that marks a departure from Mr. Cage’s recent string of action pictures. Linda Kallerus/Roadside Attractions BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — After playing, among other characters, a one-eyed dad who drinks beer out of his enemy’s…

Whenever anyone tells me that the ending to Steven Spielberg’s 2001 science-fiction film A.I. Artificial Intelligence is a cop-out, or that it slaps a happy face on the harsher story that the project’s originator, Stanley Kubrick, would’ve told, I think of Teddy. In the last 15 minutes of A.I. , a…

Spike Lee’s remarkably assured 1986 directorial debut, She’s Gotta Have It, didn’t just display promise; it promised greatness. It wasn’t apparent at the time, however, what form that greatness might take. In the years since, Lee has made just about every type of film, from enraged, socially…