One thing that’s hard to grasp about the climate crisis is that big changes can happen fast. In 2019, I was aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer, a 308-foot-long scientific research vessel, cruising in front of the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. One day, we were sailing in clear seas in front …
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It started with a bang, the sound of metal crashing down on the sidewalks of Washington, D.C. as hundreds of Trumpers stormed the Capitol. It continued into another pandemic year; for every two steps we took forward with vaccines and testing, we were knocked back one by variants and those …
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Hours after little 9-year-old Ezra Blount became the youngest victim to die from injuries suffered at Travis Scott’s Astroworld, a manager representing promoters Live Nation and its Scoremore subsidiary reached out to a group of part-time employees who had worked at the deadly festival. In a peppy email filled with …
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The following is an excerpt from Tim Mak’s new book “Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA,” about the turmoil inside the country’s most powerful gun lobbying group. At the pinnacle of the National Rifle Association’s power, around the inauguration of President Donald Trump, it was good to be Susan …
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“What’s twitching in the corner?” Cary Joji Fukunaga is slumped on a couch in a London editing facility, sipping a smoothie, stock-still except for one Birkenstock-clad foot perched, and almost imperceptibly shaking, on his knee. The 42-year-old director is running part of the opening sequence of No Time to Die, …
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Sonny Chiba, the Japanese martial artist and actor best known to American audiences for his role in Kill Bill, has died at the age of 82. Star of films like 1974’s The Street Fighter and 1976’s Karate Warriors, Chiba died from pneumonia caused by Covid-19, his agent confirmed to Variety. …
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BERLIN — For three nights this week, the Arena Berlin, a concert venue in the German capital’s Treptow district, has been coming to life with strobing spotlights, thumping bass beats, and hundreds of boisterous Berliners. These are the first gatherings of their kind in the city since a year and …
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The world knows so many different Paul McCartneys: the charming young moptop, the Sixties avant-garde innovator, the bearded family man, the rock & roll legend. But the stunning new Hulu docuseries McCartney 3, 2, 1presents Paul like we’ve never seen him before: the proud music geek. It’s just Macca in …
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In June 2021, pop singer Billie Eilish put out the music video to her newly released single, “Lost Cause.” The video features Eilish at a sleepover with a handful of her girl friends. As a promotion for the video, she posted a set of photos of behind-the-scenes moments with the …
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This piece originally appeared as part of Rolling Stone’s annual Hot List, in the July/August issue of the magazine. In the summer of 2018, and because life imitates art, Taylour Paige found herself trying to get a job as a stripper. Just a few weeks earlier, Paige had booked the …
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