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The Enduring, Long-Distance Legacy of the Postal Service’s ‘Give Up’

theringer.com

T he The great indie-rock records of the 2000s were built on lore. Justin Vernon famously absconded to a cabin in wintry Wisconsin with nothing but an acoustic guitar and an SM57 and came back with a

3 weeks ago

Who's Afraid of Lorne Michaels?

longreads.com

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)

1 month ago

For LEBO

lebatardandfriends.substack.com

The eulogy Dan gave for his late brother, the artist David “LEBO” Le Batard on Saturday. What an honor and an anguish to do this on behalf of my beloved little brother, forever my little brother. I am

1 month ago

The Perfect ‘O.C.’ Soundtrack Made Indie Music Mainstream

theringer.com

Getty Images/Fox/Ringer illustration There’s an old cliché in musical theater that when you’re too emotional to talk, you sing. A proposed corollary for the peak aughts teen soap opera might be: When

1 month ago

Preparing My X-it

whatever.scalzi.com

Preparing My X-it Posted on July 24, 2023 Posted by John Scalzi Overnight, not unlike an NFL owner silently absconding with a whole football team to move it to a new town, Elon Musk decided to change

2 months ago

Could Black Flight Change a Model of Integration?

nytimes.com

American suburbs have long faced the issue of white families leaving as more residents of color move in. But in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Black families, upset about changes in the schools, are trickling

3 months ago

Savannah James, MVP

thecut.com

Issey Miyake Nude Dress in Light Gray, available at us-store.isseymiyake.com. Neous Jumel T-bar Sandal With Toe-Framing Straps, available at neous.co.uk . Photo: Katie McCurdy In a world of oversharin

4 months ago

LeBron James and the Eternal Quest for Control

theringer.com

“He needs things his way.” —Phil Jackson T he The game is tied, and a man is tired. He took his hand off the wheel, and them boys have been champing at the bit. Gritting and grinding. Behind-the-back

4 months ago

The Untold Story of Jimmy Butler’s Dreadlocks

theringer.com

B am Bam Adebayo was in Amsterdam last summer thumbing through his Instagram feed when he came upon Jimmy Butler’s post. Butler, wearing a black T-shirt from Ice Cube’s The Predator album, spins in a

4 months ago

The Self-Proclaimed Genius of Lil Dicky

hollywoodreporter.com

“I feel like I’m the comedic voice of my generation,” says Dave Burd before so much as our water glasses are filled. Then he hesitates, recognizing how a declaration so seemingly hyperbolic might be i

4 months ago

What’s the Deal With Adulthood? 25 Years Later, ‘Seinfeld’ Feels Revelatory.

nytimes.com

The Great Read Reporter’s Notebook The show about nothing ended in May 1998. But in an era when priorities are being re-evaluated, the sitcom has taken on new relevance. Send any friend a story As a s

4 months ago

In Search Of Wikipedia's Shrug Guy

defector.com

I really love traveling into Wikipedia’s obscure depths. So much so that I post Wikipedia-sourced trivia pretty much every day on social media. Wikipedia gets a…

5 months ago

Pablo Torre Is Still Asking the Big (and Lightly Stoned) Questions About Sports

gq.com

Pablo Torre only began hosting ESPN Daily, the Worldwide Leader’s daily sports podcast, in 2020, inheriting it from his friend and colleague Mina Kimes. But you’d be forgiven for thinking he took the

5 months ago

Evan Mobley Is Putting It All Together

theringer.com

A s As the most compelling, ineffable 21-year-old basketball player in the world, Evan Mobley sits at the ground floor of greatness. Back in September, NBA general managers voted him as the player mos

5 months ago

Why Every App Now Feels Like TikTok, But Worse

nymag.com

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: John Herman You’re stuck in line at the grocery store, so you check your phone. Your brain shuts off, and your thumb takes over. Soon, a tall video plays. A

5 months ago

If sizzling fajitas are a lie, we can still crave the delicious drama

washingtonpost.com

By April 4, 2023 at 11:31 a.m. EDT If the sages are right and we are living in an attention economy, nothing says you’ve struck it rich quite like ordering a platter of fajitas. The spectacle, the she

5 months ago

"Seven Nation Army" and the Hunt for the Next Great Stadium Anthem

theringer.com

A t At the end of the 2005 college football season, Guido D’Elia began hunting for something new. Over the previous year, Penn State’s director of football branding and communications had been respons

5 months ago

St. Patrick's Day in Savannah, Georgia

bittersoutherner.com

Harrison Scott Key invites us all to experience the joy, chaos — and, at times, horror — of St. Patrick's Day in Savannah and shares the story of how he and a

5 months ago

Exactly Like Other Girls

Exactly Like Other GirlsHow Female Comedians Exemplify Womanhood by Amy Allen April 15, 2022 Preface I took my first improv class in January 2013, sixth months into the lonely year after graduating college. In improv, I found a community of brilliant and hilarious kindred spirits. I also found my…

6 months ago

One Foot In Front Of The Other

drumeo.com

SHARE THIS: Credit: Justin Nace Over the last 14 years, I’ve met lots of friendly people around the world who have asked me, “Hey! I just started playing drums

6 months ago

I was asked to invent the next Wordle. How hard could it be?

theguardian.com

I t’s December 2021. We’ve been through 18 months of grief, fear and disruption. Just as life is beginning to return to normal for many, warnings of a sinister new variant spread. People are searching

6 months ago

The Oral History of ‘Party Down’

theringer.com

T rying Trying to make it in Hollywood can be soul crushing. But nothing could’ve fully prepared Rob Thomas for what life was like when he moved to Los Angeles.

6 months ago

Across Paris, an Invader Unleashes His Art

nytimes.com

Mosaics by a street artist, who calls himself “Invader,” have become part of the fabric of the city. They are everywhere — if you look for them. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gi

7 months ago

The Brief, Wondrous Life of Little Leo

outsideonline.com

Outside's long reads email newsletter features our strongest writing, most ambitious reporting, and award-winning storytelling about the outdoors. Sign up today . On a crisp November morning, my famil

7 months ago

What I Think About LeBron Breaking My NBA Scoring Record

kareem.substack.com

I begin everything I write with a lot of apprehension because I know how hard it is to translate complex thoughts and intense emotions into the exact words that accurately express those thoughts and e

7 months ago

Retirement the Margaritaville Way

newyorker.com

The first person I met at the Bar & Chill was a bald guy in a black T-shirt, black drawstring shorts, and flip-flops, with a Harley-Davidson tattoo on his right arm and a claddagh ring on his left han

8 months ago

The Bizarre, Wholesome, Outsider Comedy of Joe Pera

observer.com

Adult Swim’s Joe Pera Talks With You . Turner/Adult Swim Discovery in the Ebbs In the streaming age, we come into things at weird times. We’ll eagerly watch the entirety of something the second it is

8 months ago

Mario, Not So Super at Forty

newyorker.com

It’s-a me, Mario! I was-a working as a plumber in New York when I fell-a down a pipe and landed in the Mushroom Kingdom. Pretty soon, I was-a having all kinds of super-fun adventures, crushing Koopas,

8 months ago

Why Your Friends Are Disappearing From Your Social Feeds

bloomberg.com

You're Reading Tech Daily. You're Reading Tech Daily. You're Reading Tech Daily. Exclusive coverage from Bloomberg reporters around the world. Exclusive coverage from Bloomberg reporters around the wo

8 months ago

How millennials became cringe

vox.com

Thirteen years ago, a man was sitting at the Denver airport. Bored, he turned his attention to his favorite website: “I see a lot of people on laptops around using the free wifi,” he wrote on the popu

8 months ago

The Age of Social Media Is Ending

theatlantic.com

It’s over. Facebook is in decline , Twitter in chaos . Mark Zuckerberg’s empire has lost hundreds of billions of dollars in value and laid off 11,000 people, with its ad business in peril and its meta

9 months ago

Donovan Mitchell and Kevin Love: Cavs In Conversation

clevelandmagazine.com

For the first time this century, the Cavaliers are building an identity without LeBron James. It started slowly. First, the drafting of Darius Garland, a dynamic guard. Then a trade for Jarrett Allen,

9 months ago

Mike Leach Was So Much More Than a Soundbite

theringer.com

Getty Images/Ringer illustration Mike Leach had a philosophy on everything. Pirates were a favorite topic, as was romance , but he was willing to go on tangents about pretty much anything: candy , whi

9 months ago

Fleeing Twitter is About White Liberal Fragility

momentum.medium.com

Black Twitter isn’t running from Elon and the trolls he inspires. They’re staying and fighting. Here’s why it matters Image: Elon Musk, Flickr, caricature by

9 months ago

Elon Musk’s First Move Is To Fire The Person Most Responsible For Twitter’s Strong Free Speech Stance

techdirt.com

Free Speech from the not-a-great-start dept Fri, Oct 28th 2022 09:42am - Last night, Elon Musk closed his on-again, off-again, on-again deal to buy Twitter, and his very first order of business was to

10 months ago

Keep It Clean

lrb.co.uk

T he flood of images is inescapable. Pick up your phone or surf the web and you will be immersed in pictures of war-torn cities and grinning politicians;

10 months ago

Welcome to hell, Elon

theverge.com

You fucked up real good , kiddo. Twitter is a disaster clown car company that is successful despite itself, and there is no possible way to grow users and revenue without making a series of enormous c

10 months ago

Las Vegas went from forbidden city to pro sports hotbed — and it's not done yet

theathletic.com

For the first time since the early days of the pandemic, no cars were rolling through Las Vegas Blvd. But the scene was much different this April than it was on those quiet days two years prior. In pl

10 months ago

"This tin can hurtling through space": Outer Wilds developers talk about camping, space exploration, and making & breaking things

sportskeeda.com

Camping in space (Image via Outer Wilds) "This tin can hurtling through space": Outer Wilds developers talk about camping, space exploration, and making & breaking things Modified Oct 17, 2022 07:57 P

11 months ago

Joe Pera Talked with You

pastemagazine.com

While Joe Pera isn’t a brand, his name is evocative of a particular style. One that’s kind and quiet, unhurried and thoughtful. His show Joe Pera Talks With You was recently canceled after three seaso

11 months ago

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