Credit... Greta Rybus for The New York Times Mayors are considering waiving fares for bus service as a way to fight inequality and lower carbon emissions. Critics wonder who will pay for it. Credit... Greta Rybus for The New York Times LAWRENCE, Mass. — Dionisia Ramos gets on the 37 bus twice a day,…

Bong Joon-ho’s film is even more nuanced and incisive than closed captioning would suggest Su Cho Feb 3 · 5 min read Photo: Neon T he first time I watched Parasite was with my boyfriend and our good friend J, both of whom are white. I jokingly hoped that the Korean dialogue would be easy for me to…

The short-form video app TikTok has a strange relationship with time . Clips that might have once been subject to the cyclical lifespans of Vine and YouTube now drift through feeds without record of when they were posted, each with the same viral potential as videos uploaded weeks, months, and even…

Jenna Fischer and John C. Reilly in 'Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story." Photo from Gemma La Mana/Columbia/Kobal/REX . The cliché has long held that very few people bought the first Velvet Underground LP back in 1967; everyone who did, however, went on to form a band. Something similar occurred with…

Getty Images/AP Images/Ringer illustration This weekend was the first after the Super Bowl, and therefore the first of 2020 without any NFL games. Normal people, previously fettered by the chains of football fandom, probably had a lovely time doing all the things they may have skipped during the…

Bong Joon Ho had a lot to celebrate Sunday night, as “ Parasite ” made history several times over. The South Korean movie was the first non-English language release to win the Oscar for Best Picture, as well as the Best International Feature Oscar. Bong — who also won awards for Best Director and…

Image: Lionsgate “F ilm “Film has tremendous balls,” Christopher Nolan told The Hollywood Reporter in 2015 . “Film is oak, digital is plywood.” And even in an era where more films are shot on digital than ever, it remains a truism among everyone from Quentin Tarantino to Detective Pikachu ’s…

Universal Pictures/Ringer illustration There’s no shortage of great war movies, but 1917 makes a compelling case to be in the discussion among the best. With an emphasis on cinematic experience, the movie tells the story of two soldiers on an impossible mission and provides a terrifyingly realistic…

When Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych fled in 2014, journalists salvaged thousands of waterlogged documents that exposed the extent of his government's corruption. Mikhail Pochuyev/Zuma On a chilly morning in February 2014, a group of journalists stood on a dock inside the abandoned estate of…

Features Features Stories from The Takeout about food, drink, and how we live. Prev Next View All You just cooked a spectacular holiday meal. You roasted your best turkey yet. You charred Brussels sprouts with some fancy lardons picked up from the specialty butcher shop. You even baked your own…

Regulators unexpectedly banned broker fees for renters, which in the city have long amounted to as much as 15 percent of the annual lease. Credit... Karsten Moran for The New York Times In New York’s City intensely competitive rental market, tenants usually deal with middlemen known as brokers, who…

The 49-year-old rap great talks about the artists and albums that have meant the most to him throughout his life—Prince, Coldplay, Kendrick—five years at a time. Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images for UrbanDaddy Scarface is one of rap’s most accomplished storytellers, an evocative writer who uses his…

Banksy in his London studio in the early 2000s. Credit... Steve Lazarides Skip to contentSkip to site index He’s a master of manipulating the news media and the art market. But will he be remembered as a significant artist? Banksy in his London studio in the early 2000s. Credit... Steve Lazarides…

Start-ups want unusual internet addresses to help stand out. One winner: The island of Anguilla, whose “.ai” domain is a favorite of A.I. start-ups. Road Bay in Anguilla, a British territory in the Caribbean that receives a fee for internet addresses that end in “ai.” Credit... Eric Rojas for The…

Photo: Depositphotos.com Amsterdam’s mayor Femke Halsema has pledged to take drastic steps to reduce the pressure of tourism in the red light district and stop sex workers being harassed by hordes of visitors. The mayor said the city had created a ‘many-headed monster’ in the Wallen district by not…

T hey aren’t (yet) calling it Amsterdam-on-Sea. But the Dutch capital – struggling to control mass tourism – is helping to market its rival city, The Hague . While Amsterdam has a reputation as a hedonistic location for stag nights and lost weekends, The Hague has an altogether more upmarket image…

A irbnb hosts in Amsterdam were outraged on Wednesday after the country’s top court ruled that anyone renting out their property without a permit is breaking the law. In a shock judgement, the Raad van State declared that the capital must abide by national housing law, which forbids holiday rentals…

Teens have been using group accounts on Instagram to feed randomized data to the social network and protect their privacy. Alfred Ng / CNET Like about a billion other people, 17-year-old Samantha Mosley spent her Saturday afternoon perusing Instagram. She was taking a glance at the Explore tab, a…

French fishermen are no longer allowed to fish off the coast of Guernsey following Brexit on Friday night. Access to Channel Island waters were granted by the London Fisheries convention in 1964 but this treaty automatically expired when Britain left the European Union on Friday night. Guernsey will…

Google Maps Hacks by Simon Weckert. A Berlin-based artist managed to create a traffic jam on one of the main bridges across the Spree with nothing but a handcart and 99 second-hand phones. But one other thing was unusual about the jam: it only existed on Google Maps . Simon Weckert’s artwork Google…

Content moderators for YouTube are being ordered to sign a document acknowledging that performing the job can cause post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to interviews with employees and documents obtained by The Verge . Accenture, which operates a moderation site for YouTube in Austin,…

Musicians know that a TikTok hit can make them a star. But as mainstream artists like Justin Bieber try to manipulate their singles into viral TikTok sensations, the process of trying to force something to go viral is becoming increasingly cringe-inducing. Bieber’s done quite a bit to promote his…

My Culture Is Not Super Bowl Entertainment The matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers brings out the worst Native Americans stereotypes. Ms. Houska is a tribal attorney and founder of the Giniw Collective. Kansas City Chiefs fans doing the “tomahawk chop” at Arrowhead…

A lot of big things happened in music in 1983. It was the year Michael Jackson’s album Thriller hit number one across the world, compact discs were first released in the US, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers formed. Yet there was one obscure event that was more influential than all of them: MIDI 1.0 was…

The shadowy group known as ‘the klept’ manipulate culture and geopolitics.Photograph: LightField Studios Inc/Alamy W illiam Gibson has never believed that science fiction predicts the future: it only ever talks about the present. His most recent novel, 2014’s The Peripheral , introduced us to an…

A Washington Post reporter was harassed after tweeting a story about the rape accusations against Kobe Bryant. The paper punished her. Jessica Valenti Jan 28 · 4 min read Photo: Christian Petersen/Getty Images A lmost immediately after Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez tweeted out a link to an…

Wendy Weintraub was always careful not to leave appliances plugged in, just in case. But around two years ago, she was getting ready for work by blow-drying her hair when she noticed smoke and the smell of burning. Soon, she saw something shoot out from the end of the hair dryer and onto the floor.…

Julie Barlow: “The French don't appreciate in conversation a kind of positive, sunny exuberance that's really typical of Americans.” Credit: Norbert Scanella/Alamy . When I was 19 years old, after five years of back-and-forth trips that grew longer each time, I finally relocated officially from the…

They say it's the new megatrend: customers without cars. Every IKEA store I have seen in North America is a big box in the suburbs, with people lined up to put big boxes in their SUVs. But the world is changing, and more people are living without cars. For many, that might mean going without IKEA.…

Subscribe These aren’t easy days for travel touts. The class ofjournalists who enjoy comped experiences at Hawaiian resorts and Michelin-starredrestaurants don’t normally generate a lot of public compassion. But I couldn’thelp feeling a few pangs of sympathy for the writers and editors who…

The loss of such a rich, sizable, powerful member state will weaken the European Union’s momentum and its diplomatic weight. A pro-Brexit rally in London last September. Britain will officially withdrawal from the European Union on Friday. Credit... Andrew Testa for The New York Times The European…

Merck Mercuriadis at his home in London. Photography: Sandra Seaton Music mogul Merck Mercuriadis raised hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the rights to hits by Taylor Swift, Timbaland, and Bruno Mars. Is he insane? Matt Hendrickson Jan 8 · 14 min read I nside the office on the second floor of…

I grew up in San Diego, a major hub for skateboarding in the 1990s. Kids at my middle school spoke of local pros like Peter Smolik and Jamie Thomas in reverent tones. At the skate shop near my house, Sun Diego, now-iconic videos like Toy Machine’s Welcome to Hell and the Shorty’s team showcase…

A campaign is underway to get the British Parliament’s great bell to ring when the country leaves the E.U. on Jan. 31. But there are hurdles: the cost and repairs. The British Parliament’s famous clock tower is being renovated. But pro-Brexit lawmakers want its main bell, Big Ben, to chime for…

Posthumous albums are always morally ambiguous objects, because it’s not clear whether the artist would have wanted this music, in this form, to be released. AP / Star Shooter / MediaPunchInc / IPX Mac Miller wanted to change the story. In the summer of 2018, the headlines about the rapper mainly…

This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. You might not need all that. Photo: DOMINIC BRACCO II / PRIME/The Washington Post via Getty Im I like the way Andrew Tobias talks about bulk buying in The Only Investment…

Ten years ago today, Steve Jobs introduced the iPad on stage at the Yerba Buena theater in San Francisco . It surprised everyone, in several ways. Some expected a touchscreen Mac with a stylus. Some expected a product that would do for the news industry what the iPod had done for the music industry…

From our Obsession Future of Work Preparing for a labor force that doesn't yet exist. It’s an odd time to be an office-rental company. It’s not that WeWork’s competitors were rooting for it, but having a shiny poster-child for flexible office leases wasn’t exactly bad for business. Then WeWork fell…

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