The movie theater staple is ever evolving, just like our snacking habits “The butter is the best part,” Summer Adams told me during my first visit to the Eveningstar Cinema in small-town Brunswick, Maine. “We melt it by the pound—I unwrapped some sticks today.” In a black choker and a Scream…

The other day I was replaying The Crew 2, driving from Texas to San Francisco in my silver 1955 Mercedes-Benz SLR. After passing through the epic canyons and peaks, I finally arrived at the glistening Pacific. Looking at my GPS, now barely 3 miles away from downtown San Francisco, I was shocked to…

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. of the Toronto Blue Jays takes the field at the 34-year-old Rogers Centre. Once a showpiece of new stadium technology, the facility once known as SkyDome is now among the oldest in the league. Photographer: Mark Blinch/Getty Images North America Toronto’s Rogers Centre and…

One of the first artistic acts I remember is cutting things out. As a child, I would draw tiny people and cut them out with scissors, mostly for the purpose of

Curry laksa at One2Snacks, a Malaysian takeout restaurant in the Dynasty Centre, a strip mall in Toronto.Credit...Tara Walton for The New York Times Toronto Dispatch Some of Toronto’s best dining options are mom-and-pop shops little known beyond their immigrant patrons, offering dishes that recall…

If you’re even moderately online, you’ve likely crossed paths with TraumaTok (or its cousin, Trauma­Gram): Lots of short videos explicating how myriad hang-ups—including perfectionism and hoarding, people-pleasing and social isolation—are “trauma responses.” There’s advice, too: Stimulating the…

This is how I got my bike back after it was stolen a few weeks ago. https://t.co/p1eIsNKx8n — Sean “Mr. X” Marshall (@Sean_YYZ) Sep 23, 2023 Tweeted by @Sean_YYZ

E arlier this week, Lucy May Walker, a singer-songwriter from Redditch, posted a series of modest proposals for behaviour at concerts under the title Gig

A brief cultural history of crying while reading. Janet Manley July 28, 2023 In the olden days, the popular crowd were devouring Pamela, and watching Marianne Dashwood getting teary over a sonnet (sense before sensibility)—the beginning of what became known as the “sentimental” novel, especially…

Words by Anton Spice Sam Slater hands me a small porcelain cup. We are drinking sencha in a light wood studio on the ground floor of an old piano factory in North-East Berlin and discussing the conceptual armature of his new album. I Do Not Wish To Be Known As A Vandal is split into two parts -…

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This jaded mapping curmudgeon has been in the industry a good few years and as a result has witnessed a few mapping epochs — the dawn of global digital street maps, the dawn of internet mapping and the dawn of mobile mapping to name just a few. Coupled with that I’ve seen the tools to make maps…

I bought a brown sweater recently. A brown sweater, of course, is boring. Brown is a boring colour, a sweater a boring garment — it pips the much-maligned cardigan to the post because a cardigan is so boring it becomes interesting again. (Plus a cardigan has buttons.) Despite the fact that I own,…

Food Matters The spice is one of the world’s most elusive, complex and hard to cultivate ingredients. But for many Americans, it still represents a “boring” choice. Credit... By Photographs and Video by Melody Melamed Sept. 8, 2023 IF, PRESENTED WITH all the ice cream flavors in the world, you ask…

A Viking village... yes, but built in 2010 for a film, it's a movie set. Might want to mention that. Yes, let's buy it and move in, start our own Viking themed settlement! https://t.co/BkkXcpR2N8 https://t.co/QAJGzhSJyS — Fake History Hunter (@fakehistoryhunt) Sep 9, 2023 Tweeted…

Beyond Concrete guest editor Brian Sholis talks with Matthew Gandy, author of Natura Urbana, about the ecology of concrete, engineered versus spontaneous

I am amused that BC United is cited offhand alongside New Coke and X as a particularly disastrous rebranding https://t.co/uComJFKS3E — Stephen Tweedale | @stephentweedale@mstdn.ca (@stephentweedale) Sep 5, 2023 Tweeted by @stephentweedale

Newsletter The Morning Labor Day weekend marks the unofficial end of summer. But we don’t have to be so doctrinaire about it. Credit...María Jesús Contreras By Sept. 2, 2023 This weekend, while you’re working the grill or attending a parade or sitting in traffic, conversation will turn, inevitably,…

The first thing ever searched on Google was the name “Gerhard Casper,” a former Stanford president. As the story goes , in 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin…

60% of British Columbians (-1 since June 2021) believe it is a “very good” or “good” idea for Vancouver to host an @MLB team. https://t.co/5OssIGdmKs — Mario Canseco (@mario_canseco) Aug 30, 2023 Tweeted by @mario_canseco

Editor’s Note: This week’s edition of REFRAME features Adrienne Maree-Brown who, in responding to Jeff Chang’s Call on the changing demographics and its…

Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! (Photo: yuan2003 / Flickr)You, dear reader, are on the front lines of a war. It is a war between money and the earth, between capital and people, between the blunt stupidity of greed and the resilient…

This is the fourth piece in a series on the “Dongbei Renaissance.” The third can be read here. It is not unusual for economic disaster to stimulate a cultural revival. Take German cinema during the Weimar Republic, for example, or the neoliberalism of post-World War II Italy. China’s three…

Just in time for the PNE, I wrote about the history of Hastings-Sunrise for @MONTECRISTO_Mag. https://t.co/f2PIgY2JD1 — Kevin Chong (@thatkevinchong) Aug 26, 2023 Tweeted by @thatkevinchong

A few years ago, the discussion forum Hacker News, where engineers collectively decide what other engineers should read, developed a quirk. A new phrase had entered the coder lexicon, and it seemed to propel links to the top of the page with such force that to some the rankings might have looked…

Ginger Goodwin making a speech on Jan. 1, 1916. Source: Cumberland Museum and Archives. The broad outline of Ginger Goodwin’s story is well known to many of…

A so-called flowerheadz vase by Hugh Findletar inspired by the face of his friend Sara Nozza. The vase is one of several pieces Mr. Findletar is showing at an upcoming group art show at Bergdorf Goodman in New York.Credit...Matteo de Mayda for The New York Times The former first lady, Naomi Campbell…

There’s a common line among urbanists and advocates of car-free cities to the effect that all the nice places people go to for tourism are car-light, so why not have that at home? It’s usually phrased as “cities that people love” (for example, in Brent Toderian), but to that effect, mainly North…

This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Seth Simons | Longreads | August 17, 2023 | 15 minutes (4,165 words)…

What was happening to capitalism should have happened to baseball: the technical man with his analytical magic should have risen to prominence in baseball management, just as he was rising to prominence on, say, Wall Street. -Michael Lewis, Moneyball America’s national pastime is a numbers game.…

Hot take. https://t.co/H1eFldllyD — Tina Robinson (@actualtina) Aug 13, 2023 Tweeted by @actualtina

When the iPhone launched on June 29, 2007, it did so without any third-party apps, much to the chagrin of its customers and the skeptical tech press. The original iPhone only had 15 native apps, and users wanted more. Apple encouraged iPhone users to use “web apps” with limited features in place of…

Rumors of San Francisco's death have been greatly exaggerated Great deep-dive from Michael Gennaro on this trope that SF is in terminal decline, killed by liberal decadence and permissiveness. As he writes @CourthouseNews, the reality is more complicated: https://t.co/lSoxWGvReL — Stephen…

This First Person column is written by Bill Chow, a second-generation Canadian who is a teacher in Mississauga, Ont. For more information about CBC's First…

I have started a new thing where I take a close look at the first 5 minutes of an S1E1, starting with Sex Education. What happens? What do we learn about the characters? Their relationships? What questions are set-up? Let me know what you think! https://t.co/k5OBGIdsym https://t.co/aW4OXBMO6Y —…

From Roman Roy to Loki, audiences regularly become enamored of jerks across movies and television. Just what makes these characters so endearing—and what does that say about ourselves? By • - My first memorable experience with a pop culture jerk was with Vegeta of the seminal anime series Dragon…

On Monday afternoon, the official Instagram account of writer and performer Paul Reubens released a statement that he’d passed away the previous day, the lamentable conclusion to a cancer diagnosis he’d kept private for six years. The tragic suddenness of his death at a still-too-young 70 was…

When starting a new job as a software engineer, it’s natural to feel the pressure of delivering immediate value and meeting the expectations of your role.…

S tanford engineering professor and renewable energy expert Mark Z Jacobson tweeted the other day, “Given that scientists who study 100% renewable energy