Agnès All Along
The stunning, nonlinear career of Agnès Varda
How Horror Films Fueled Bartees Strange’s Latest Indie-Rock Triumph
It’s Friday the 13th, and Bartees Strange has some thoughts on the 1980 slasher of that name. “I love that the mom is killing everyone,” he says, spoiling the movie…
How Horsegirl Opened Up Their World
H ere they come now, bustling down the street in Brooklyn, three young musicians wrapped in winter coats and chatting animatedly among themselves as they approach the diner on the…
UK demands ability to access Apple users’ encrypted data
Expert says government has ‘lit the blue touch paper on a truly enormous fight’ as it challenges firm’s privacy stance
The State Department is blocking new passports for trans Americans
The State Department is no longer issuing U.S. passports with “X” gender markers and has suspended processing all applications from Americans seeking to update their passports with a new gender…
Students walkout in LA to protest ICE raids in schools
The Brief Several hundred high school students across Los Angeles staged a walkout on Tuesday to protest federal immigration policies, gathering at City Hall and on the Main Street overpass…
A Roon with a View
Modernism meets millennial in a novel of sibling rivalry and complicated romance
Drama King
Evidently, one has many experiences as an actor that are incommunicable, or at least not directly communicated. But this is not so isolating as it may seem. Pacino has come…
Chicago kept its New Year’s resolution: All city buildings now use 100 percent clean power
It takes approximately 700,000 megawatt hours of electricity to power Chicago’s more than 400 municipal buildings every year. As of January 1, every single one of them—including 98 fire stations,…
‘We stand with you’: SF leaders rally for immigrant community after ICE agents spotted downtown
Published January 28, 2025 6:14am PST {read} ICE agents seen in downtown San Francisco spark fears and concerns in the immigrant community The president of Local 87, the union representing…