Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The residents of the apartment complex are respectable. There are doctors, lawyers, and a surplus of those drably enigmatic persons known as “young professionals.” The building itself, the Starliner Tower, on…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Rachel SymeStaff writer You’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 in-box. So far,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Don’t trust the credits. Just as producer credits are sometimes handed out like bonuses, screenwriter credits often fail to reflect work that directors do on scripts they shoot. But one of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The first zine that I ever read was called Snotrag, and its author was a straight-edge hardcore fan, bike enthusiast, and occasional raver who lived in Vermont. I was none of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When Layla and Tarek meet up on a street corner one night in Brooklyn, they greet each other with the jerky unease of people who don’t know whether or not to…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The word “content” is a workhorse of the digital era, referring to any form of culture or media pumped through the distribution tubes of the Internet, regardless of its medium. “Intellectual…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When Jon Stewart announced that he would return to “The Daily Show” as a part-time host, the reaction among fans was split. The nostalgists were vindicated on Monday night: there was…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Did you really think that the Kansas City Chiefs were
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Paul Valéry wrote that taste is made of a thousand distastes. Generally, it feels better to share the former than the latter, and toward the end of each year, when distributors…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One unusually warm January afternoon, I arrived in Cauterets, a small spa town in the Pyrenees, in southwest France, to meet the Russian artist Andrei Molodkin. There was a scattering of…
