Show over? British singer Dua Lipa performing at Lollapalooza Berlin festival in 2018.Photograph: Hayoung Jeon/EPA Music industry figures have said a no-deal Brexit would make touring “simply unviable for many artists”, after new government guidelines for cultural, heritage and sporting…

A military base from which United States forces pulled out in the town of Tel Arqam, near Syria’s border with Turkey, on Monday. BEIRUT, Lebanon — President Trump’s decision on Sunday to step aside and let Turkish forces come into northern Syria instantly cast into doubt the fate of ethnic Kurds…

It’s a terrible thing to be prescient. Ask Scott Galloway. Many months ago the always opinionated, usually accurate, professor made the bold prediction that tech darling WeWork would never make it to its much vaunted IPO and its ambitious valuation of $47bn (around £38bn, giving it roughly the same…

NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images However painfully belated the Democrats’ formal push toward impeachment may seem to you, the Ukraine fiasco arrived at the perfect time for Saturday Night Live . The premiere of the show’s 45th season waited less than 30 seconds to get Alec Baldwin as Donald…

Though a sense of doom lurks at the heart of the venerable band’s eighth album, they remain determined to keep classic guitar-pop alive by slyly twisting and expanding the form. Ever since Chuck Berry motorvated over the hill in “Maybellene,” cars have been a shorthand for freedom in rock’n’roll.…

Comics Published September 27, 2019 Gather 'Round for the Most Unique Spider-Man Comic Collaboration: 'Amazing Spider-Man: Full Circle' #1 Featuring a comic collective of creatives, this is a Spidey tale like you've never seen before! AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: FULL CIRCLE (2019) #1 If there's anything…

In Philadelphia, "jawn" can mean just about anything. Graphic by Aïda Amer . Taylor Jones, a Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania, was unfamiliar with the bizarre stew of linguistic quirks in Philadelphia when he first started school there. An army brat, it seems like Jones grew up…

It was just after midnight on Monday, November 15, 1875, and the Interstate Exposition Building in Chicago was buzzing. Spectators swarmed the auditorium, hundreds of people craning their necks to get a glimpse of the two legends on the track. One of the men wore a black velvet suit with black…

Photos from Flickr user Antana . Bitcoin was a clever idea. Idealistic, even. But it isn’t working out quite as its developers imagined. In fact, once all the coin has been mined, bitcoin will simply reinforce the very banking system it was invented to disrupt. Watching the bitcoin phenomenon is a…

There’s no looking away. The battlefield drama 1917 will play out in a surprising form—as if it were one continuous shot, tracking two British soldiers as they race through a carnage-strewn landscape to deliver a message that might save 1,600 lives. Join Vanity Fair & get a free tote. Get unlimited…

Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here . Or just read on… I’m back! One of the themes of this newsletter has turned out to be the breakdown of integrity in American business, and the consequences in terms of our increasingly…

A number of workers at Kickstarter are currently trying to organize a union , an effort the company has actively opposed from the start. The CEO made it clear that the company doesn’t want a union and would not voluntarily recognize one. Several weeks ago, during the middle of the organizing…

The Tiv people of Nigeria tell a story about the early world, when things were different. It’s about Aondo, the Sky, and how he lost his relationship with humans. When the earth was still new, Aondo was close enough that people could stretch out their hands and touch him. For many years, he and the…

Agta preparing a fire . Photo by Jacob Maentz / Getty Images. Once upon a time, the sun and moon argued about who would light up the sky. They fought, as anthropomorphic celestial bodies are meant to do, but after the moon proves to be as strong as the sun, they decide to take shifts. The sun would…

Every day for 10 months, Knightscope K5 patrolled the parking garage across the street from the city hall in Hayward, California. An autonomous security robot , it rolled around by itself, taking video and reading license plates. Locals had complained the garage was dangerous, but K5 seemed to be…

Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev at the Kitchen Debate. Photo from the National Archives/16916096 . O n April 9, 1990, American newspapers reported on an unusual deal. Pepsi had come to a three billion dollar agreement with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had long traded Stolichnaya vodka in…

In late 1992, the UK branch of the vacuum manufacturer, Hoover, offered an impossibly sweet promotion: If a customer bought any product worth £100, he’d get two free round-trip flights to the United States. For the 84-year-old electronics brand, it was meant to be an eye-catching way to boost…

Photos from Greyston . Around 25 years ago, Ty Hookway, founder of the upstate New York-based janitorial services company CleanCraft, was driving past one of their client’s houses when he noticed one of his workers’ cars parked in front. It was late–around 11 p.m.–so Hookway stopped to check in and…

Soraya Roberts | Longreads | August 2019 | 7 minutes (1,849 words) I think maybe I thought I made it a couple of times. Both of them had to do with jobs. Both were fleeting feelings — very much tied to age and stage of life — and I’ve never felt the same way again. I don’t know what “making it”…

The first time I looked at a block of code and understood what was happening, I felt like a genius. Illustration by Elena Xausa Depending on whom you ask, 2012 represented the apex, the inflection point, or the beginning of the end for Silicon Valley’s startup scene—what cynics called a bubble,…

News "Cinema is already dead," says David Cronenberg By 2018-07-13T11:53:00+01:00 Source: Wikimedia Commons David Cronenberg David Cronenberg, the director of Crash and Naked Lunch , delivered a damning verdict on the medium of cinema at the Neuchatel International Fantasy Film Festival in…

Soraya Roberts | Longreads | September 2019 | 9 minutes (2,452 words) The new release I most wanted to see during the Toronto International Film Festival was Unbelievable , the Netflix series that is neither a movie nor was it screening at TIFF. I was more taken by this miniseries, based on the…

Photos courtesy Opalus Co., Ltd. A fter a few years of playing in a metal band, I’d seen a thing or two. I’d seen full-grown men go through solid tabletops like they were made out of cardboard. I’d watched a diminutive, bespectacled, ginger-bearded Frenchman get lifted off of his feet and slammed…

In public, Donald Trump’s allies are putting on a brave face, repeating talking points, mostly staying on message. But in private, there are few who believe that the allegations leveled by an intelligence agency whistle-blower that Trump abused American foreign policy to leverage Ukraine into…

You get the sense on MTV’s “Are You the One?” that the contestants’ identities aren’t as mediated, because they are all used to performing, whether or not they’re being televised. Credit Photo illustration by Mike McQuade In the latest season of “Are You the One?” MTV’s dating show on which more…

Filed under: TL;DR Entertainment Transportation Apparently a penis is worse than a giant hole in the road By Via Fast Company | Source BBC Share this story Fast Company Frustrated by the number of potholes pockmarking his city streets, an anonymous man recently discovered a way to get the city to…

Photo by Frank Barratt/Getty Images . When Sue Malden started working as an assistant researcher for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in the early 1970s, she imagined the broadcaster’s 20-plus year history of television was tucked away somewhere on shelves—a towering video library of…

With its rigid beat and dry, monotone vocals, the song sounds like a synth-pop hit you would have heard in a dance club in the Eighties. (Or at least on an Eighties Spotify station.) Close your eyes and you can imagine a music video: awkwardly lip-synching musicians, exploding lightbulbs, foggy…

About halfway through It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia ’s Season 6 Christmas special, a man at an office party asks, “Is there a man in that couch?” There is, in fact, a man in that couch. It’s Frank Reynolds, the character played by legendary actor Danny DeVito, who, throughout 13 seasons, has…

The union for the musicians of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, late this June, refused to sign a contract that would cut its unionized musicians’ income by some 20 percent. The musicians were, in turn, locked out by management, which meant facing months without pay or health care. In a Baltimore…

news analysis Deborah Ramirez’s Yale experience says much about the college’s efforts to diversify its student body in the 1980s. Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh during the announcement of his nomination to the Supreme Court on July 9, 2018. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times Ms. Pogrebin and Ms. Kelly…

Montreal is an environment actively conspiring against its constituents. Stand on any street in the city proper, and within your line of sight will be a speck of orange—a traffic cone, a maintenance sign, a construction worker in a high-visibility vest—somewhere in the distance. There is always work…

F ans of the buzz y young startup Superhuman, a $30 a month premium email product, rave about its speed and clever, feature-rich design. But recently one of those features proved controversial: a supercharged “read receipt” ability showing users when recipients of their missives had opened them, how…

Illustrations by Michael Driver . T here’s a snapshot Aiden took of me a few days after our wedding on Christmas Eve, 2009. I’m standing outside his mother’s house wearing disposable coveralls, gloves, and a particulate mask. In the background is a dumpster. The ground is thick with dead, brown palm…

America’s Orthodox Jews Are Selling A Ton Of The Products You Buy On Amazon A community of Orthodox Jews prospers by selling products on Amazon — and keeping one foot in modernity and one foot out. Yisroel has missed a lot — blogging, Napster, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter. Like many other Orthodox…

Warning – this piece contains major spoilers. We waited a couple weeks before posting this, but if you haven’t seen the movie yet, and you are worried about spoilers, please read this essay after viewing. “And the seasons they go round and round. And the painted ponies go up and down. We’re captive…

Table for One is a column by Senior Editor Eric Kim , who loves drinking alone and seeks to celebrate the beauty of solitude in its many forms. I once walked into a bar during happy hour, headed straight to the lone empty seat and was about to sit—when the guy to my right grabbed the stool and…

Singer and songwriter Daniel Johnston was found dead at his home on the morning of September 11. He was 58. He sang about good and evil, sex, and true love. He courted and obtained a large, loyal cult following, as well as the respect of his musical peers. Johnston was an outsider artist, visually…

Chester and me: A portrait of beautiful dysfunction . This February, I adopted a black pug named Chester . There were a lot of good reasons for me not to get a dog. My roommates didn’t want one. My apartment, technically, didn’t allow pets. And as my father repeatedly emphasized, Chester would be a…

Before the release of Friday in April 1995, films about life in South Central had painted a bleak portrait of the hood that was largely covered in splashes of red. Colors (1988), Boyz N the Hood (1991), and Menace II Society (1993) all centered on themes of bloodshed and tragedy, which became…