It’s a balmy night in Manhattan’s financial district, and at a sports bar called Stout, everyone is Tindering. The tables are filled with young women and men who’ve been chasing money and deals on Wal

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The Suicide Girl print on view at Postmasters. Photo: Courtesy Postmasters. There’s a new twist in the strange saga of Richard Prince and the Suicide Girls . To recap: Last year, the blue chip appropr

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We’re five months from the release of The Hateful Eight . How close to finishing are you? We’ve got a little bit more than an hour finished right now. I just got back from seeing an hour of the movie

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Breaking news! The stock market is crashing! Everybody panic! Unicorns are going to die!!! Ok, so maybe we’re overreacting a little. But today (Monday, August 24) saw a nice little 4% ‘correction’ in

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One Thursday morning in early June, the ballroom of the Rosewood Sand Hill hotel, in Menlo Park, was closed for a private presentation. The grand banquet hall appeared worthy of the sprawling resort’s

Published in Startups & Venture Capital · 2 min read · Sep 1, 2015 -- In Vanity Fair , Nick Bilton tackles the never-ending debate to determine whether or not the tech industry is in another bubble ,

John A was a junior in college when things fell apart. He was 20, a typical age for schizophrenia to come crashing down, and had begun to suspect that his roommate was poisoning his food. John A stopp

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When audiences see 20th Century Fox’s “Fantastic Four” reboot this weekend, they’ll likely assume that it’s the third entry in the cinematic superhero saga. But a new documentary hopes to dispel that

Dear Millard Drexler & Co., While I am sure that you and your team are busier than ever given earnings, recent press and the opening of J.Crew Mercantile, I’m crossing my fingers that by power of the

Credit: Flickr / Adriane Dizon I spend more time than I thought I would thinking about technical interviews lately, because something I’ve been doing is conducting technical interviews for a few start

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On July 1, Seth Bannon appeared before several hundred techies and investors at the New York Tech Meetup, the industry gathering where Tumblr and Foursquare made their debut. Even among this pedigreed

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The Daily Beast, Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg via Getty Just three years ago, Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge were the toast of the liberal establishment. The Facebook co-founder and his politically ambitio

(Lionsgate/David Appleby) by January 28, 2015 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Not all flops are created equal. Plenty of movies bomb with critics and audiences, but every so often,

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Every now and then, when he’s spoiling for a fight, Travis Kalanick has a face like a fist. At these times, his eyes crinkle, his nose flares, and his mouth purses just like a clenched hand readying a

In Lower Manhattan, at the corner of West Broadway and Thomas Street, hangs a restaurant sign that functions as a kind of cultural Rorschach test. Composed not of abstract shapes but of 29-inch-high s

Chinatown employment agencies can get immigrants kitchen jobs in a few hours. Photograph by Annie Ling In a strip mall on a rural stretch of Maryland’s Indian Head Highway, a gaudy red façade shaped like a pagoda distinguishes a Chinese restaurant from a line of bland storefronts: a nail salon, a…