Credit Illustration by Michael Gillette On August 17, 2010, I got an e-mail from Facebook notifying me that I had received a message. It was from my ex-boyfriend’s mother. Its subject heading was “Goodbye from Nancy and Bill.” Nancy and Bill are my ex-boyfriend’s parents, though I’ve changed their…
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Zach Galifianakis as Marty Huggins and Will Ferrell as Cam Brady in The Campaign Photo by Patti Perret/Warner Bros Pictures. In The Campaign , which opens tomorrow , Will Ferrell is Cam Brady, an ambitious, skirt-chasing politician with a $900 haircut and a remarkable amount of self-admiration. So…
The Pangea 3000 members, standing up: Seth Reiss, Dan Klein, Arthur Meyer and Zack Poitras. Julieta Cervantes for The New York Times “THIS is our last show, indefinitely,” the actor-writer Arthur Meyer said, standing onstage at BAM Café on a recent Wednesday night. He glanced at the other three…
Celebrity The GQA: Nick Offerman The Parks and Recreation star on how to be a man, how to love a woman, and why he'll never tweet again You might be surprised to learn that Nick Offerman—who plays iconic manly-man Ron Swanson on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation —has a giggle that can only be…
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February 2012
They were the first. At nine o’clock on a cool Friday morning last fall,…
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No one but Hector Xavier Monsegur can know why or when he became Sabu, joining the strange and chaotic Internet collective known as Anonymous. But we know the moment he gave Sabu up. On June 7, 2011, federal agents came to his apartment on New York’s Lower East Side and…
Photo Illustration by Erwin Olaf for The New York Times. Set Design: Jeffrey W. Miller. Special Effects: Jane Choi. Location: Bulthaup Showroom, New York. 1. JULIA’S CHILDREN I was only 8 when “The French Chef” first appeared on American television in 1963, but it didn’t take long for me to realize…
Radical hackers took up Hotz’s fight, although he never considered himself a cause. Credit Illustration by Ron Kurniawan In the summer of 2007, Apple released the iPhone, in an exclusive partnership with A.T. & T. George Hotz, a seventeen-year-old from Glen Rock, New Jersey, was a T-Mobile…
Last year, during his best three-month stretch, Jordan Golson sold about $750,000 worth of computers and gadgets at the Apple Store in Salem, N.H. It was a performance that might have called for a bottle of Champagne — if that were a luxury Mr. Golson could have afforded. “I was earning $11.25 an…
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One of the better spots to enjoy a bowl of ramen noodles here in New York is Minca, in the East Village. Minca is the kind of place just out of the way enough that as you’re about to get there, you start wondering if you’ve already passed it. A…
by J. Walsh If you watch enough modern comedies in theatres and on television, chances are you’ll come across Ken Jeong. Rising to fame as the easily frazzled Dr. Kuni in 2007’s Knocked Up, Jeong quickly made a name for himself in roles that both played to and occasionally worked against Asian…
T here’s no cheaper commodity in sports than that noxious mixture of potential and hype. Everyone’s selling it, and they’re digging deeper and younger to find it. Draft coverage — pick the sport — often gets more headlines than the games themselves. It’s no longer enough that 16-year-old football…
The Republic of Marfa by Sean Wilsey Isolation. In the middle of what’s known as Far West Texas, there is Marfa: a hardscrabble ranching community in the upper Chihuahuan desert, sixty miles north of the Mexican border, that inhabits some of the most beautiful and intransigent countryside…
Look, Google, we’ve got a plan to help you win on social. There’s only one catch: You have to give up on the notion that animates Google Plus.
Out in the Mojave Desert, there’s a place called California City that’s fascinated me ever since Geoff Manaugh brought its story to the Internet’s attention.…
This whole We Hate LeBron thing reminds me of a story. A woman is in front of an apartment house that's engulfed in flames. She's screaming, "Help! Help! My baby's in there!" A man sprints up and says, "Which floor?" "Tenth!" she screams. "In the back!" He rips off his coat and goes running in. Five…
Here’s the story Adam Fleischman likes to tell about the genesis of his Umami restaurant empire: Hunched over a ketchup-red plastic cafe-teria tray at the Culver City In-N-Out Burger, Fleischman, a 35-year-old wine entrepreneur, peers into a cardboard box flecked with french fry grease. He ponders…
How a young entrepreneur got caught living secretly at AOL CNET's Kara Tsuboi talks to Dan Terdiman about how he broke the story about the famous AOL squatter. by Kara Tsuboi Close Drag It was 6 a.m. when Eric Simons was jolted awake by the yelling. After working until 4 a.m, the 19-year-old…
Talking with Del Harvey of Twitter at pii2012 this morning. Del Harvey is the director of trust and safety for Twitter — a big job that covers areas including account activity and abuse, user safety, spam, legal issues and many other areas. This morning at the Privacy Identity Innovation conference,…
One of my favorite things about this time of year are the commencement addresses delivered to graduating students at colleges and universities across that country that pop up on YouTube. I enjoy watching/listening/reading these speeches because I think they’re often filled with wisdom and…
Top stories Getty Images Texas Bound Edwin Encarnacion hit a walk-off HR in the 11th inning to launch the Blue Jays over the Orioles and into the ALDS where they'll face the Rangers. 6:36 Scan All: Citizen Soldier 400 at Dover After a hectic weekend, NASCAR America gives you all access to the…
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The grand unifying theory of the American consumer has been that we are, first and foremost, low price fetishists. There’s ample evidence supporting this view: From Wal-Mart’s prominence to the fast food industry’s ongoing success, vast swaths of the economy are indeed built on…
With the Between Two Ferns: A Fairytale of New York debuting Sunday at 8:30 before the Comedy Awards , I thought it was a perfect time to look back at the Between Two Ferns series. B2F has been incredibly popular, bringing in over 80 million views across the entire series, on Funny or Die alone.…
8:00AM BST 27 Apr 2012 The fastest man on earth is lying motionless on the spongy blue running track at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. He appears to be asleep. The elongated limbs of his 6ft 5in body stretch across the track like felled branches. Protruding from beneath his…
Still, good actors want good roles, and judging by the quality of those whom we auditioned, our show was sufficiently attractive. But before we found our cast, we had to endure the EPAsthe Equity Principal Auditions. For any show staged under an Equity contract, audition time must be reserved for…
Look to your left and then to your right. Is that pretty girl Phi Beta Kappa? Marry her. Getty Images Class of 2012, I became sick of commencement speeches at about your age. My first job out of college was writing speeches for the governor of Maine. Every spring, I would offer extraordinary tidbits…
This interview originally appeared in Kill Screen Toward the end, Al Lowe expresses some frustration shopping videogame ideas to publishers. He hasn’t been sitting on his laurels since we spoke with him. He recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new Leisure Suit Larry project! / / / It’s…
For startups like Path, recasting geek identity with a frat house swagger is a dangerous game. Illustration: Caitlin Kuhwald At the South by Southwest Interactive festival in March, I attended a talk titled "Adding Value as a Non-Technical No Talent Ass-Clown." It was given by Matt Van Horn, a…
Nathan Myhrvold in the cooking lab of Intellectual Ventures. Photograph by Chris Buck
As usual, Nathan Myhrvold has to get the dinosaur question out of the way first: Is it true, asks a saucer-eyed brunette with cleavage bursting through her zip-front denim jumpsuit, that he has a Tyrannosaurus rex…
Like all revolutions in thought, this one began with anomalies, strange facts, odd observations that the prevailing wisdom could not explain. Casino gamblers, for instance, are willing to keep betting even while expecting to lose. People say they want to save for retirement, eat better, start…
Jessica Dimmock/VII, for The New York Times In an industrial section of south-central Nashville, stuck between a homeless shelter and some railroad tracks, sits a little primary-colored Lego-block of a building with a Tesla tower on top. The inside holds all manner of curiosities and wonders —…
After five years pursuing the social-local-mobile dream, we need a fresh paradigm for technology startups.
We’re there. The future that visionaries imagined in the late 1990s of phones in our pockets and high-speed Internet in the air: Well, we’re living in it.
“The third generation of data and…
I don’t hate New York. Let me get that out of the way immediately. I don’t hate it, but why anyone would want to live there is beyond me. It’s a place to visit, like Las Vegas or New Orleans, where you entertain yourself for a few days, spend a lot of money, ogle and stare and eat and leave. Living…
In the family’s Tribeca loft. Credit Photograph by Max Farago As a general principle, Lena Dunham does not believe in removing anything that she has posted to the Internet; but, after she received a million and a half hits on YouTube for a video that showed her stripping down to a bikini, climbing…
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Midnight, 19 May 1961. A crisp frost had descended on Turin’s city centre which was deserted and deathly silent. Well, almost. Two brothers, aged 20 and 23, raced through the grid-like streets (that would later be made famous by the film The Italian…
SAN FRANCISCO — Past midnight, in a dimly lighted warehouse jutting into the San Francisco Bay, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger introduced something they had been working on for weeks: a photo-sharing iPhone application called Instagram. What happened next was crazier than they could have imagined.…
James Erwin, 37, works for a financial services firm in Des Moines, Iowa, writing software manuals. He’s been doing that for a couple of years, and he enjoys it. It’s a pretty low-stress job for a person with a methodical turn of mind—good pay, short commute. He’s home by 5:30 every night to spend…
S o here is the president of the United States, enjoying canapés and small talk at Daniel, chef Daniel Boulud’s gourmet restaurant just off Park Avenue, with the right touch of upscale-whorehouse decor and enough Alice Waters in the kitchen to make it the place where every Wall Street guy takes his…
Photo: Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images Facebook, a company with a potential market cap worth five or six moon landings, is spending one of its many billions of dollars to buy Instagram , a tiny company dedicated to helping Thai beauty queens share photos of their fingernails. Many people have…
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