Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When Film Forum showed “Last Tango in Paris” this past December, as part of a Marlon Brando retrospective, the venue’s web page for the screening included a note stating that “lead…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes. That’s a lot—but, according to one estimate, humanity will produce a hundred and eighty zettabytes of digital data this year. It all adds up: PowerPoints…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A little more than a decade ago, the video-game designer Davey Wreden experienced a crippling success. In October, 2013, he and a collaborator, William Pugh, released the Stanley Parable HD, a…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Bird flu has made buying chicken eggs so unpredictable! Prices are high, and then they’re lower again; grocery-store shelves are bare, but only sometimes! Are there eggs from other birds that…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Hip-hop beat-makers are usually unseen. Not all sample-based producers are as reclusive as the torch-bearing loop artist Madlib, but even the most prominent among them are part of the backdrop. After…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “One of the things that I’ve always loved about living in New York is that I don’t need to own a car,” R. Kikuo Johnson, the artist behind the March 31,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There’s a gamelike element to being a detective—the seeking of hidden information, the identification of patterns, the piecing together of clues, the “Eureka!” of discovery. Several legendary fictional detectives have been…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. The musician Tamara Lindeman founded the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Early on in “Mulholland Drive,” the late, great David Lynch’s 2001 surreal masterpiece of American aspiration and degeneration, the young innocent Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) arrives in Los Angeles from small-town…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Québécois director Philippe Lesage began making documentaries in the early two-thousands. He has since switched to narrative features, but they have been meaningfully shaped by his nonfiction work, in ways…
