It was a book that drove me away from books. This wasn’t a trauma of distaste, or indulgence: not a literary bad mussel, not waking up on the floor of someone's house with a swimming head and the knowledge that I could never again be within smelling distance of their first editions. My aversion was […]
Time’s editor-in-chief praised its 2017 Person of the Year, the Silence Breakers, for speaking out about sexual harassment and assault and unleashing “one of the highest velocity shifts in our culture since the 1960s.” He joins a chorus calling the torrent of public allegations of sexual harassment or assault a “moment” for women in America. […]
What a game, right? Those Patriots. Those Eagles! TRICK PLAYS! That's a Super Bowl for you. And the action continued during the commercial breaks, especially if you were interested in what various companies thought was worth paying upwards of $5 million to parade in front of 110 million people. The answer, surprising no one, is […]
With less than four weeks to go before the opening of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, everyone is getting very, very excited about the prospect of returning to the Resistance, the First Order, and the never-ending conflict between good and evil. But do you know just how never-ending that conflict is going to be? Perhaps […]
The first episode of Extreme Meatpunks Forever, a new visual novel by Heather Robinson, begins in a bar, with two gay men chatting. Chatting, that is, until a fascist—the game refers to them in faceless terms, usually just as "fash"—interjects and begins shouting slurs. The shouting escalates into a fight. And that's when the mechs […]
When Kanye West issued his eighth studio album, ye, on Friday, he did so amid a tempest of fury and confusion. The weeks leading to its release were marked by brash, dangerous claims by the rapper on Twitter and a brief appearance on TMZ where he likened slavery to “a choice.” Overnight his presence on […]
Last week was so busy that we barely got to talk about failed Senate candidate Roy Moore filing a lawsuit claiming sexual misconduct allegations against him threw off his 2017 campaign. There also wasn't much time to talk about Stormy Daniels suing President Trump for defamation, or Paul Ryan’s surreal war with the House Chaplin, […]
Late last summer, MoviePass introduced a seemingly impossible offer: See a movie every single day in theaters, paying only a monthly fee that, in most markets, amounts to less than a single ticket. It worked. Earlier this month, MoviePass hit 1.5 million subscribers, growing much faster than anyone expected, including MoviePass. But amassing customers was […]
An inarguable truth, if you are fortunate enough to have all the necessary components: There's something sacred about being a kid and playing videogames with your sibling. Not because videogames are that important, necessarily, or essential to family relationships. But because there's an alchemy there, in huddling close to some old television, diving together into […]
People look for inspiration and happiness in a vast array of places. Some see school kids walking out of class across America to take a stand for gun control and find hope. Others note that 7-Eleven now has customizable tater tots and are filled with joy. What do they get when they look at the […]