Having nearly run out of eye-rolling Avengers conjoinings and bastardized reboots, Hollywood execs have landed on an even lazier way to sell movie tickets: 3-D releases of beloved classics. The latest victim of this desecration? Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Twenty-six […]
Last week was a whirlwind in the media. The owner of Gothamist and DNAinfo shuttered them both. ESPN issued new guidelines for what their employees can say on Twitter and other social platforms. And Disney declined to give the Los […]
OK, where to begin? Well, last week was a half-fortnight during which folks learned Donald Trump Jr. didn't call his dad when everyone thought he did (more on him in a minute); an Apple bug allowed other people to eavesdrop […]
"MIT Professor Exposes ‘Egregious Error’ & Evidence Tampering in US Report on Syria Sarin Incident." Pretty good headline, right? You've got a qualified expert from a prestigious university, discussing verifiable facts; even if you're a born skeptic, you're going to […]
Earlier this week, the New York Times posted a comprehensive accounting of President Donald Trump’s lies. It is, among other things, a triumph of web design. Orange, san-serif dates turn each falsehood into bricks in a vast wall. Scrolling turns […]
Take in the price of Finnish tomatoes with me. In winter, when there’s more darkness than daylight, a kilo of tomatoes costs almost €4 ($4.50) in Tampere, a city of 300,000 in southern Finland. “Finnish vegetables are really expensive,” Lauri […]
The only way to explain the reaction to Merriam-Webster’s year-end announcement that “doggo” was one of the dictionary’s “Words We're Watching” is to use another colloquialism: Twitter lost its damn mind. It wasn’t the first time Merriam, the hippest dictionary […]
"I need to know what's inside," Natalie Portman says toward the end of the first trailer for Annihilation, the forthcoming adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's 2014 surprise-hit sci-fi novel. Anybody's who read VanderMeer's book—about a group of female scientists who venture […]
In the days since President Trump’s incendiary press conference—where he more or less validated the racist and thuggish ideologies hurled by white supremacists and neo-Nazis—I have been unable to escape something he said. “I think there’s blame on both sides,” […]
Much of recorded history has been the story of fathers and sons, with women written down merely as the familial covalent bonds that connected them when they were recorded at all. The names of fathers pass to their children, here […]