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size is: article-large “By the Sea” “By the Sea,” Angelina Jolie’s third narrative feature as a director, will open this year’s AFI Fest (November 5-12). The drama about a husband and wife (played by Jolie Pit and her husband Brad Pitt) trying one last time to salvage their broken marriage while on vacation will be the…
Photo “Universities frequently compete, but this is a space we can find a reason to collaborate,” said Richard A. Matasar, a New York University vice president. Credit Christopher Gregory for The New York Times A MONTH before turning 60, Helen White received her master’s degree in sport management at George Washington University, and now teaches…
Condescension drips off the opening screen of Millennial Swipe Sim 2015, a game that purports to simulate the “thrilling world of app-based dating.” Much like Tinder, it presents you with photos of potential suitors—albeit pixelated ones—and asks you to swipe right or left to indicate if you’re interested. “But watch out,” it warns. “Stop swiping…
The boxed copy of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain reportedly contains nothing but a Steam installer. That’s right, even if you fork out real-world money for a physical copy of the game, you’ll still have to download the whole thing from the internet. The image was posted to social media by @graphμre. Making…
FILED UNDER: U.S., Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans FOLLOW NEWSWEEK Full site feed The worst of Katrina was an act of man, not an act of God. I heard something like that from every local I encountered in New Orleans earlier this year. No matter their age, race or religion, the people of this city pretty much agree that…
Miley Cyrus was going to have all eyes on her no matter what she wore to the MTV Video Music Awards. But her get-up for Sunday night’s 2015 VMAs, which she’s hosting, involved a ponytail full of blonde dreadlocks. Source: laurencox/Twitter Source: Giphy And from the back…Source: Getty Images Unsurprisingly, not everyone was a fan — including the many…
Katrina bus tours go all over New Orleans, but it’s illegal for them to go into the Lower 9th Ward, the area that’s been the slowest to rebuild. This week we go around talking to residents there about what matters the most to them (and what doesn’t) ten years after the hurricane. The episode we…
Remember that story of how Atari buried a bunch of their games in a landfill, and how they were rediscovered last year? Now, some of the recovered cartridges have sold for over $100,000. As the video game market crashed in the mid-1980s, Atari disposed of much of their surplus games, including their infamous adaptation of…
Somehow this is supposed to turn people *against* a higher minimum wage? http://t.co/KTRsXlMp4n pic.twitter.com/ff8qddakYc — Jody Avirgan (@jodyavirgan) August 26, 2015 On Monday, a billboard went up over Times Square ridiculing the call for a $15-an-hour minimum wage for fast-food workers. The billboard depicts a doofy good-for-nothing millenial shrugging his way toward a…
Some Photoshop concepts, no matter how ill-conceived, must be seen to the bitter end Things are reaching a boiling point in the sleepy crime-riddled hamlet of The Hamptons, USA. There have been Uber shortages, LIRR restriction, helicopter bans, and fornicating yupster Bros aplenty. Dr. NY Times is here to diagnose the problems, which they…