The best film ever made about hip-hop is also the first: Wild Style . Released in 1983, Wild Style covered all four elements of hip-hop—graffiti, MCing, breakdancing, DJing—in the culture’s earliest days. It’s not a documentary, but at time it feels like one. The setting is hip-hop’s nursery, the…

John Maynard Keynes was twitted with changing his mind. He replied, “When the facts change, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?” My favorite example of a change of mind was Norman Mailer at The Village Voice . Norman took on the role of drama critic, weighing in on the New York premiere of…

I hear that in San Francisco the term “Glassholes” is already current, but in New York I am a conquering hero. Photograph by Emiliano Granado On a weekday afternoon in late June, a nondescript forty-year-old man in beige shorts, a blue Penguin sports shirt, and what appears to be a pair of…

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Mandy Patinkin in Charlotte, N.C., on the soundstage for “Homeland.” Graeme Mitchell for The New York Times It was the fifth take, or maybe the seventh or maybe the ninth. Down in the bowels of Langley, or at least in its reasonable facsimile in Charlotte , N.C., where Showtime’s “Homeland” is shot,…

Movie theater popcorn is a concession stand staple whose scent has spawned marketing ploys and copycat recipes , but movie theaters haven't always been saturated with the tempting smell of salt and butter. The history of popcorn is vast, and it intersects with movies in the relatively recent past–a…

When I have described the well-considered, coherent political and economic strategies of the conservative white South, as I have done here , here and here , I am sometimes been accused of being a “conspiracy theorist.” But one need not believe that white-hooded Dragons and Wizards are secretly…

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Good morning! I am a leaf blower! You’ve probably heard me. Right now, for example. Sure, put that pillow over your head. That should help. Still here. I woke you up this morning to clear the air—air filled with particles that always get in your eye, even when you’re, like, fifty feet away and you…

Cus had us modify the affirmations for our own situation. So he had me saying, “The best fighter in the world. Nobody can beat me. The best fighter in the world. Nobody can beat me,” over and over again all day. I loved doing that; I loved hearing myself talk about myself. I was this useless,…

Over the next two weeks we'll bringing you our pick of the games of the generation - and today we're starting off with Portal, Valve's exceptionally smart puzzler that was the surprise highlight of The Orange Box when it launched in October 2007. Few would dispute that, when it comes to video games,…

The British filmmaker had been wanting to tell a story of someone who had been free and was then abducted, and in doing so, to tap into a collective fear as old as the Grimms’ fairy tales of Rapunzel, Cinderella, and Hansel and Gretel. Fernando Morales/The Globe and Mail The "Hollywood version" of…

About 20 or so years ago, things were so bad between Prime Minister Pete Nice and MC Serch that the two trailblazing rappers went years without speaking and, despite all their work together, were content to pretend the other didn't exist. After the ugly and abrupt 1991 demise of 3rd Bass, Serch, a…

The American action movies of the 1980s and ’90s could be cheesy, reactionary, and dumb, but at the same time, they could possess a brawny, brutal grace. Take Die Hard , for instance. The movie’s fun has a lot to do with form; John McTiernan’s use of camera movement, wide-angle lenses, and…

edit 10/06/2013: read a sort-of followup to this blog HERE when you’re done with this and all of the amazing discussion in the comments section Sinéad O’Connor wrote a letter to Miley Cyrus, you can read it here: bit.ly/SOColMC (or HERE on The Guardian if her site’s down from heavy traffic) This is…

The Millennium Bridge. Andrew Testa for The New York Times How do you make a new city your own? How do you turn it from a place you know as a tourist into a place you call home? How do you transform yourself from traveler to resident? The things we notice when we visit cities are rarely the things…

The new action movie Escape Plan stars Sylvester Stallone as a security expert who finds himself incarcerated in a high-tech, futuristic prison. To escape, he joins forces with another aging inmate, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. For even the biggest die-hard fan of Rambo and Predator , the image…

Our Interview with Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson! , BY Jake Rossen October 17, 2013 Update (June 7, 2014): We recently learned that Bill Watterson has been collaborating with Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis on some brand new comics . Last year we were lucky enough to land an…

Image: Flickr Just two weeks after the Feds shuttered the Silk Road , the notorious online drug bazaar, bitcoin prices have touched a five-month high—with a single bitcoin fetching nearly $156 each on Tokyo-based exchange Mt. Gox. Bitcoin’s resiliency can no longer be denied, especially as the…

Davey and Stanley have been living together for about five years now, and lately, they’ve started getting on each other’s nerves. “Stanley is this thing that I desperately need,” Wreden says. “It’s responsible for some of the best things in my life now, but at the same time, I need to get rid of it,…

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One sweltering afternoon in July, I found myself breaking and entering into a derelict warehouse on the east side of Cleveland. I was in the middle of a crash course in metal theft from a man named Jay Jackson. Dressed like a plumber with a crumpled blue baseball cap on his head, Jay’s muscular…

Dorsey’s tastes—minimalist design, severe diets—mirror the Twitter aesthetic. “Constraint inspires creativity,” he says. Illustration by Hellovon Jack Dorsey, the tech entrepreneur, takes the No. 1 bus to work, and he likes to catch the 7:06. It carries him nearly from one side of San Francisco to…

4chan, that bizarre cesspit of the Internet that most people know to avoid, recently celebrated its 10th birthday. And with the rise of the website came the rise of the Chan — a pantheon of 20 or so young women who gained a huge following for posting photos of themselves on the site's image boards.…

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F ew are chosen. Fewer succeed. Journey now to an island world surrealistically tinged with mystery … where every vibrant rock, scrap of paper, and sound may hold vital clues to your unraveling a chilling tale of intrigue and injustice that defies all boundaries of time and space. Only your wits and…

‘I’ve pulled as much of my catalogue from Spotify as I can’ … David Byrne. Photograph: Chris Sembrot for the Guardian A while ago Thom Yorke and the rest of Radiohead got some attention when they pulled their recent record from Spotify . A number of other artists have also been in the news, publicly…