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,…

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…

Watch: An excerpt from The Web of Fear, starring Patrick Troughton as the Doctor in 1968 Nine missing episodes of 1960s Doctor Who have been found at a TV station in Nigeria, including most of the classic story The Web of Fear. The black and white story sees Patrick Troughton's second Doctor battle…

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The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. Andreas Wangler, Lead Designer on Shelter , writes a post mortem on the development of Might &…

An aerial view of lower Manhattan, NYC. I 'm writing this in Venice, Italy. This city is a pleasantly confusing maze, once an island of fortresses, and now a city of tourists, culture (biennales galore) and crumbling relics. Venice used to be the most powerful city in Europe – a military, mercantile…

B randon, a 34-year-old black man from Richmond, Va., labels himself "a cautionary tale." Growing up in the shadow of a university where both his parents worked in maintenance, he was told from an early age that education was the path to the "land of milk and honey." An eager and hard-working…

Photos by Dan O’Neil Teenagers know a lot more about privacy than we think, so what are they trying to tell us when they post? I know which of my teenage students smokes weed in the park after class on Fridays, and which other students are with him. I know which ones are struggling with making…

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Everyone is buzzing about Gravity , the stunning new film from director Alfonso Cuarón ( Children of Men ). We sat down with Cuarón to talk about it. He told us why you can watch basically every mainstream movie with your eyes closed, but not Gravity . Far too many films today rely on characters…

The 55 miles from Campbell to San Francisco make for one of the nicest commutes anywhere. The journey mostly zips along the Junipero Serra Freeway, a grand and remarkably empty highway that abuts the east side of the Santa Cruz Mountains . It is one of the best places in Silicon Valley to spot a…

Has anyone told you recently that you simply have to watch Breaking Bad? Photograph: Ben Leuner/AMC "O MG, you have to watch Breaking Bad ! You simply have to. Stop whatever you're doing and watch it right now. Stop resuscitating that patient, and watch Breaking Bad. Stop flying that plane, crash it…

by Lucy Schiller I recently returned to my parents’ house in Urbana, Illinois, where I moved after failing — for nearly three years — to find full-time employment in San Francisco. I had no trouble finding cafe jobs, or unpaid internships, for that matter. Freelance writing (emphasis on the “free”),…

29 SHARES Share It’s no secret that I’m not a huge fan of burlesque. I think it’s a boring, overplayed example of what you might call neosexism or retro sexism — meaning that the “vintage” veneer and claims of “subversion,” “ irony, ” or postfeminism are meant to disguise the fact that it’s just the…

NOTE: Some of the names and identifying details in this story have been changed. THE TINDER GUY She wanted it to be like the scene in the Lana Del Rey video for “Blue Jeans”—“hot and slow and epic.” The scene where strangers meet and fall into an easy intimacy, making love in a pool—“and they look…

Words by Daniel Isenberg ( @StanIpcus ) Action Bronson returned home to New York earlier this week from his recent European tour in support of Saaab Stories , his new EP release produced entirely by Harry Fraud. But this was far from his first major outing. He’s been killing it consistently on the…

I’m quite certain that many, many people adored Vince Gilligan’s kickass ending to “Breaking Bad”: it’s easy to sense that from even a brief surf in the celebratory waters online. Nothing I write can erase someone else’s pleasure: and why should it? Pleasure is an argument for itself. But if you…

Many will write about the 15th anniversary of the last great release date in Rap history. But few truly overstand why it earned that designation and why after it there may never be another great day on par. Since they can’t, I will. Not only do I remember the day well and what it signified but I was…

Depending on who you ask, there is one of two things you need to know before you start blowing that wad of Salty bucks. a.) Always bet on Dragon Ball Z, and, b.) never bet on Dragon Ball Z. Both are terrible advice, but don’t sweat it. It won’t save you when the Google logo is vis-à-vis with…

carr2n: My take on why film directors can't resist Wikileaks and Assange http://t.co/eRO5SDUT21 Bond hero/villian in one cinematic package.

Since the end of 2007, police in the UK have run a secret network of fully-furnished fake apartments and townhouses, solely for the purpose of capturing local burglary suspects. These are called "capture houses." First experimented with in the city of Leeds, capture houses are "secret homes fitted…

[This story originally ran on on Feb. 27, 2013. We’re republishing it today to provide background on the Wolfenstein franchise prior to the release of Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus .] In the late 1980s, a Texan twenty-something named Scott Miller created a business model that would change the way…

William Alexander Morgan being applauded by Fidel Castro, in Havana in 1959. Morgan said that he had joined the Cuban Revolution because “the most important thing for free men to do is to protect the freedom of others.” Photograph Courtesy Ramiro Lorenzo For a moment, he was obscured by the Havana…

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