In case you've just awakened from a brief coma, Pepsi is taking a lot of heat for its latest ad. The broad strokes: Its official title is the word salad "Live for Now Moments Anthem"; it features reality star/model Kendall […]
Samantha Bee has a problem: 54 percent of her audience isn’t registered to vote. Yes, more than half of the people who watch Full Frontal—a group that ought to know a thing or two about politics in America by now—never […]
Poets see the world in a grain of sand. Futurist architect Mat Cash found inspiration in a grain of corn. As group leader at Heatherwick Studio—the avant-garde design firm behind Google’s upcoming Mountain View and London campuses—Cash was tasked with […]
In Austin, March comes in like a lion but goes out like a marketer, thanks to the annual South By Southwest conference, where tech startups and content companies all try to implant brand awareness directly into your brain. This year, […]
You’d have to reach back into Marvel’s movie history to find a film quite as delightfully spry as Spider-Man: Homecoming—all the way back, in fact, to 2008’s Iron Man. That heartfelt romp not only fully rehabbed Robert Downey Jr.’s career, […]
Every good story needs a villain. One of the best stories in recent memory was the debacle known as Fyre Festival, a music event promising supermodels and luxury that failed so spectacularly that two documentaries were released about it, both […]
The big night in AltspaceVR is usually Wednesday. That’s when the social VR platform hosts its “Echo Space” dance party. While live DJs spin music, headset-wearing diehards from all over the world congregate at the center of a 360-degree video […]
Quelle Chris was high on mushrooms. That may not be germane to the story, exactly, but the producer/MC makes a point of bringing it up. This was a few years ago, and he was at an arcade in San Francisco […]
For a movie full of sky-shrieking aircraft, cacophonous bomb blasts, and a relentless tick-tocking score, it's notable just how quietly Dunkirk snuck up on movie audiences. There were no major film festival premieres or fan-targeting convention campaigns in the months […]
Six months ago, in the face of tragedy, Zack Snyder stepped away from the upcoming Justice League movie. While the director and his wife dealt with the death of their 20-year-old daughter, Autumn, Joss Whedon stepped in to finish the […]