Two attractive teenage boys, one of whom is shirtless, energetically dance to “Skechers” by DripReport, their sun-streaked curls bouncing, palm trees and stucco pseudo-Renaissance architecture in the background. It’s a snapshot from an idyllic teenage dream, the 2020s version of the Frankie Avalon/Annette Funicello beach party movies. One would be …
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Since its inception in 2005, YouTube has become a home to many things — a place for people to post historic clips, to flaunt their inner selves, to share their latest creation, to share dangerous misinformation. But at its core, YouTube is a place to get lost for hours in …
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Jeffrey Epstein’s death by suicide in federal custody on August 10th means that the wealthy financier will never be criminally prosecuted for sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy. The July indictment alleged that Epstein “sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls at his homes” in New York City, Palm …
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A few hours after midnight on New Year’s Eve, 29-year-old Tyleek White was shot in a narrow hallway lined with Christmas lights in the Louis H. Pink Houses in East New York, Brooklyn. He was the first person murdered in New York City in 2019. The homicide ended a four-month …
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The first time I ate a pot brownie, I finished the entire thing in one evening. Six hours later, I was lying awake, heart pounding out of my chest, kaleidoscopic patterns twirling before my eyes. I hadn’t realized how different edibles could feel from smoked flower. Nine years later, I …
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After years of free association, Jonathan Lethem’s idea for a new novel was finally coming together. He’d been sitting on themes likeferal children, detective novels and the American West his whole career, and now it was time to bring them to a hard boil. The final touch —after much internal …
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On August 11th, 1999, the Dalai Lama brought thousands of New Yorkers to Central Park to hear him preach the gospel of nothingness. About 20 years later, a tech start-up called OZY Media updated His Holiness’ concept as a bipartisan bacchanal of surrender complete with false prophets, matching accessories and …
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On the morning of May 4th, 1970, Dean Kahler, a student at Kent State University, called the professors of his morning classes to let them know he wouldn’t be there that day. He wanted to check out the protest, he told them, that was scheduled for noon at central campus. …
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People in Colorado pride themselves on their tolerance – for high altitudes and marathon ski sessions, sure, but also for high-ABV craft beer and super-potent cannabis. As the first state to roll out legal recreational weed, Colorado’s had nearly five years to explore the culture and industry of adult-use marijuana, …
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For someone who’s torn both MCLs, had a broken tooth lodged in his cheek and occasionally asked his wife to pull thumbtacks and glass from his back, nothing hurt more for Corey Graves than being told he could no longer be a pro-wrestler. It’s an obsession that drove him to …
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