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…
Estate sale of Noir Leather founder Keith Howarth shows a life lived on the wild side
For nearly 40 years Keith Howarth owned and operated Royal Oak kink shop Noir Leather, which helped make the once-sleepy suburb one of Detroit’s most fun. Howarth handed the business…
Of Dust and Dreams: A Profile of Karen Russell
Karen Russell’s new novel, The Antidote, was born of a single image: A woman holds a sparkling emerald-green horn to her ear through which she receives someone’s secret and stores…