Retreats Run by Writers, for Writers
While many writer-run retreats are fairly new, and their founders are still tinkering with the format, some like Dallagiacomo are plotting ways to turn them into lasting institutions. In the…
The Room Where It Happened: The Delights, Oddities, and Haunted Ephemera of Residencies at Writers’ Homes
In many cases, that strange magic of the in-between, combined with the intimacy of submerging so fully in an artist’s material life, seems to affect residents in unexpected ways. Writers…
How D.C. Rapper Noochie Built a Phenomenon From His Porch
His video series Live From the Front Porch has attracted major stars and won millions of views for performances filmed at Noochie's house
How Hannah Bahng Created Her Own Path
The Korean Australian singer-songwriter is winning fans with her confessional indie-rock songs
Old People Are Taking Over TV
This gradual re-graying started out, ironically, in an area of the business generally held up as forward-thinking and youthful: streaming. In 2015, Netflix debuted Grace and Frankie, in which former…
Everywhere she goes, Michelle Buteau has a rapt audience.
Everywhere she goes, Michelle Buteau has a rapt audience. On a Wednesday afternoon in January, we’re at a double-duty gay bar and gastropub in Brooklyn, talking over shoestring fries and…
George Foreman, Heavyweight Boxing Champion and Famed Entrepreneur, Dead at 76
“My mother used to tell me, ‘You live and learn. Then you die and forget it all.'”
Why new tech only feels good for a short time
The Hedonic Treadmill The psychological phenomenon known as the hedonic treadmill has been well documented since at least the 1970s. The concept refers to how humans tend to revert to…
Plex ups its price for first time in a decade, changes remote-streaming access
Plex is a bit hard to explain these days. Even if you don't know its roots as an outgrowth of a Mac port of the Xbox Media Center project, Plex…
Hungary bans Pride events and plans to use facial recognition to target attenders
MPs in Hungary have voted to ban Pride events and allow authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attenders and potentially fine them, in what Amnesty International has described…