The Movie That Inspired Gregory Bovino to Join Border Patrol
For all the scenes of jeeps raising dust in the desert and migrants wading through the Rio Grande, “The Border” is something of a two-hander. Charlie’s prevailing disgust with his…
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Trial starts in L.A. lawsuit alleging Instagram and YouTube knew apps harmed kids
A landmark civil trial that will ask jurors to decide whether social media companies can be held liable for pushing a product that they allegedly knew was harmful to children began Monday…
Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” Is Extravagantly Superficial
Catherine and Heathcliff—now played by Robbie and Elordi—will prove each other’s undoing as well. Fennell teases out the tricky evolution of the characters’ deep bond, from steadfast…
The Race to Give Every Child a Toy
Actually, they did want to be. There is a reason Morris Michtom moved his family from the Lower East Side to the row houses of Brooklyn as soon as he could. (When his youngest son was…
Why We Can’t Stop Reading—and Writing—Food Diaries
Spending a day in someone’s kitchen can tell us about their relationship to time, money, pleasure, and place. Source link
“Industry” Is a Study in Wasted Youths
In the new season of the hit HBO series, its young protagonists have left the trading floor that made them. Their second acts are revealing. Source link
In an Age of Science, Tennyson Grappled with an Unsettling New World
While the earth thus trembled, different and equally disruptive discoveries were happening in the sky. Thanks in part to improvements in telescope design, astronomers began identifying…
Listening to Joe Rogan
Long John Nebel and Art Bell are gone, but the tradition they embodied has a prominent inheritor. In an age of diminishing attention spans, “The Joe Rogan Experience” is free-form, runs…
Barry Blitt’s “Split Screen”
In February, 1925, the first issue of The New Yorker was published, featuring a drawing by the art editor Rea Irvin of a top-hatted dandy examining a butterfly through his monocle. This…
Pierre Huyghe’s A.I. Art Monster Takes Over a Night Club in Berlin
In the far corner of the Halle, there’s a dim glow. Your job, you realize, is to grope your way toward that light, which reveals itself to be a projector beam hitting a colossal screen,…
Bad Bunny’s All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show
Bad Bunny arrived on the Super Bowl stage wearing a silver trenchcoat and a matching do-rag. He delivered a perfectly incendiary verse in which he declared, “Viva la raza!,” and then he…
AI’s latest 20-something billionaire got his start at L.A. garage sales
The man set to become one of the world’s youngest artificial intelligence billionaires started his entrepreneurial journey as a bored preteen living in Los Angeles. When Ali Ansari was 12,…
What Do We Want from a Protest Song?
He is also sitting in front of a screen. “Am I the only one willin’ to bleed / Or take a bullet for bein’ free / Screamin’ ‘What the fuck?’ at my TV?” Lewis bellows. This oscillation…
Photographs of Mali on the Cusp of Independence
We see this, for example, in an untitled portrait sometimes called “Two Ladies of Bamako.” Here, Keïta captures a pair of women—holding each other at the shoulders and the hands—dressed in…
Oil prices climb on worries of possible Iran-US conflict
Oil prices settled higher on Friday (Feb 6), reversing earlier losses as traders worried that this week’s talks between the US and Iran had failed to reduce the risk of a military…
Europe: Stoxx 600 rebounds in broad based gains; Stellantis plunge drags auto stocks
Europe’s benchmark share index rose on Friday (Feb 6) in a largely broad-based rebound from the prior session’s losses, as investors assessed a mixed bag of earnings from companies…
‘Industry’ Star Miriam Petche on Taking the London Finance Drama to Africa and Sweetpea’s Big Moment: ‘I’m Worried for Her!’
SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains plot details from “Eyes Without a Face,” Season 4, Episode 5 of “Industry,” now streaming on HBO Max. On “Industry,” heroes are hard to come by.…
The Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Was a Playful Celebration of Italian Culture: TV Review
The winter Olympic games are often seen as more of an appendix to their larger summertime counterparts than a tentpole in themselves. But in 2026, the parallels between Milan — which…
Illegal immigrant convicted of voting, stealing disability and food stamp benefits
An illegal immigrant from Colombia was convicted Friday on charges that she voted illegally in the 2024 presidential election and stole some $400,000 in Social Security disability, food…
Fred Smith, Bassist for Television, Dies at 77
Fred Smith, bass player for the influential proto-punk band Television, died Thursday. He was 77. The band confirmed his death on its Instagram. Smith started out playing with Angel and…
Americans in line for more beef from Argentina
President Trump is allowing Argentina to send an additional 80,000 tons of beef to U.S. markets in an attempt to reduce sky-high consumer prices. Source link
Gabby Karan and Gianpaolo de Felice Open Tutto Mare in Royal Poinciana Plaza in Palm Beach
There are many beautiful settings to have a bite in Palm Beach, but only one sits directly on the water, a remarkably low number for an island. One can imagine it was quite a coup for…
‘Schitt’s Creek’ Will Be Available to Stream on HBO Max
Emmy-winning comedy “Schitt’s Creek” will be available to stream in its entirety on HBO Max starting Saturday, Feb. 7. With the addition comes a newly launched “Schitt’s Creek” playlist…