Neil Young’s iPod Killer
A rock icon sets out to save music with a strange yellow gadget that almost no one understood.
cory doctorow on tech laws and tariffs
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The Fraught Rapture of Seeing Other Women Onscreen
Feminist film scholar Lori Jo Marso redresses misconceptions of the gendered gaze, parsing through the lessons we can learn from our exhilaration and unease.
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Freaky Tales
Freaky Tales is a 2024 American action comedy film written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. The film stars Pedro Pascal, Boden and Fleck's longtime collaborator Ben Mendelsohn,…
How the Public Library Became an American Civic Institution
Free For All: The Public Library tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen. From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today's…
How Los Angeles’ “Little Tokyo” is fighting for survival
Los Angeles' "Little Tokyo" is filled with displaced shops and closed family restaurants as a new wave of development threatens the Japanese cultural hub. It's not the first time the…
Grave New World
Richard Beck charts how 9/11 shapes the way we live now
We’re Leaving
Starting out working on Noah Baumbach’s comedy-drama Frances Ha, it was Zachary Treitz’s Sundance-nominated 2011 short film, We’re Leaving, that saw the young director cut his filmmaking teeth. The offbeat short tells…