The Real Cost of Working in the House of Mouse
The employees spreading joy and maintaining animatronics at Disneyland can’t pay their basic bills.
Lady Gaga Isn’t Done Shape-Shifting Yet
Rachel Syme profiles Lady Gaga upon the release of her new film, “A Star is Born.”
Raising a Black Boy Not to Be Afraid
“No matter how hard he worked in school, how many A’s he earned, or how kind he was, he had little influence over how strangers on the subway and on the streets thought of him.”
Out of the Woods
In a protected old-growth forest, a hiker finds a lost child, but she can’t protect him from the outside world he inhabits.
Spawning an Intervention
A group of scientists are trying to create coral babies to restore the world’s endangered reefs. Will it work?
The Movie Assassin
This personal essay by Sarah Miller has gone viral and divided Twitter. Those who love the piece — about Miller’s struggle in 1996 to get away with panning “The English Patient” for an alt weekly paper — appreciate her brutal honesty and her irreverence toward the Serious Film establishment.
Bradley Cooper Is Not Really Into This Profile
Cooper’s new film is ultimately about the way commerce can ruin art, which is why he won’t answer the personal questions Taffy Brodesser-Akner asked him. It makes this profile kinda meta, you know?
‘We Changed Culture’: An Oral History of Vibe Magazine
Conversations with key players in the history of Quincy Jones-founded Vibe Magazine.
Little Bits of Paper Everywhere: An Oral History of Snipehunt Magazine and Kathy Molloy
Between 1988 and 1997, a vast network of volunteers and freelance writers designed, published and distributed an independent culture magazine called Snipehunt in Portland, Oregon. It. Then it abruptly ended and its charistmatic editor disappeared.
A Visit to Opioid Country
In this personal essay, Aaron Thier contemplates the connections between privilege, addiction, and recovery.
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