1984's Streets of Fire
"There [is] all kinds of pop culture iconography floating around in Walter Hill's "Streets of Fire": rock stars; outlaw biker gangs; neon marquees; Dick Tracy-style police cars; diners that serve up...
View ArticleExotic animal debacle in Zanesville
"Jack Hanna says the scene of wild and dangerous animals running from an eastern Ohio farm after their owner freed them and killed himself was 'like Noah’s Ark wrecking.'
View ArticleLinda Ronstadt to publish memoirs
“Linda Ronstadt is one of the most versatile and commercially successful female singers in U.S. history, recognized for her many public stages of self-reinvention and incarnations.”
View ArticleNYC Marathon Cancelled
Reversing his earlier position, Mayor Bloomberg decides to cancel this year's marathon.
View ArticleIf "50 Shades" had been written by a man.
50 Sheds of Gray, on Twitter; on Amazon 'Are you ready to be tortured in a way only a woman can torture a man?' she asked. I nodded nervously. 'OK' she said and ate half my chips."
View ArticleFallon/Black go Extreme
The inimitable Jack Black guests on The Tonight Show 5/4/15 and joins Jimmy Fallon to cover Extreme's More Than Words (SLYT).
View ArticleSometimes You Break Their Hearts, Sometimes They Break Yours
She's an alien, living in our world. She observes and describes. She says amazing things. Enlightening things. Things that make you embarrassed at your own humanity. Is this how we look to the rest of...
View ArticleCrowd Source: Inside the company that fakes it all... for a price
It's just theater, right? But the lines get blurry and the waters get murky...
View ArticleZsa Zsa Gabor, dead at age 99
While Gabor had multiple acting credits, her greatest performance was playing herself: She was famous for her accented English (calling everyone “darling,” which came out “dah-link”), eccentric name,...
View ArticleSherlock's "The Six Thatchers" episode will air on 1 January
The first installment of the much-anticipated Season 4 kicks off the new year.
View ArticleThe David Foster Wallace disease
| Wallace was depressed, and so his terribly powerful intelligence was, in fact, his terrible master.
View ArticleCommunities founded on shared delusion: Prepper Edition
| "Preparation is something you do now that isn’t for now. It’s defined by what isn’t, yet... And for preppers that something is: disaster. A big one."
View ArticleA day in the life of Auschwitz today
In 1947, the Polish government established the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, which has since been visited by about 1.72 million people from around the world. Konopa deftly captures a setting...
View ArticleBetter living through... biohacking?
The small brown vial came to me via a chain of custody that shall not be discussed and with the assurance that the clear liquid therein was, according to some guy who told the guy who gave it to me, a...
View ArticleWAKE ME MAYBE BECAUSE I'VE MADE MISTAKES AND I'M AN ALL STAR
| In which a techno-alchemist creates musical gold. The ingredients: equal parts this and this with a dash of this; mix well and serve over a tasty beat. EUREKA!
View ArticleThe Musical that (almost) Fell to Earth
When Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Michael Cunningham got a call from someone claiming to be David Bowie, he thought it was a friend pulling a prank. He didn’t know he was about to be launched into a...
View Article"Those rules of thumb don’t apply to hard tech startups"
CEO Jason Rosenthal deep-dives into the trials and tribulations surrounding the development of Lytro Cinema technology.
View ArticleBilly Eichner Is Trying to Talk to You
Now in its fifth official season on truTV, the unique Billy on the Street is still one of the strangest shows on television — a delightful alchemy of pop culture, celebrity, performance art, and...
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