Created in New Orleans and played around the world, the music we call jazz is filled with genius, legend, and tragedy.
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25 Movies and the Magazine Stories That Inspired Them
A selection of 25 successful article-to-film adaptations that made it all the way to the box office.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Story, Technology
Performance Art: On Sharing Culture
With physical distancing the order of the day as COVID-19 spreads, cultural locales — sites for communal experiences, like museums and theaters — are emptying out. What are we sharing if we’re not sharing these spaces? And were we really sharing them to begin with?
Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Current Events, Media, Story
The Contradictions of Twitter’s ‘We Care’ Campaign
With bots, fake news, and an angry right-wing flank, Twitter is crashing against the limits of ideological neutrality.
Posted inBusiness, Highlight, Quotes
Big Pharma Has No Comment, But Would Still Like All Your Tax Dollars
From 2008 to 2016, the amount that state Medicaid programs spend on prescription drugs almost doubled. Why?
Posted inBusiness, Culture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes
How Japan Deals with the Remains of Your Days
In Japan, business is booming for those who clean out apartments after people die.
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Snapshot of Canada: An Accidental Reading List
An incomplete portrait of a nation emerges from a stash of old print magazines.
Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Current Events, Story
Private Telegram, Public Strife
The precarious future of messaging apps.
Posted inBusiness, Design, Highlight, Quotes
Style Ain’t Cheap, aka That Stuffed Coyote Costs Extra
Going to a hotel to have a place to sleep is for suckers: it’s influencing or bust.
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In My Own Voice, Redefining Success and Failure
In this personal essay, Lauren DePino looks back at her ambitions as a singer, and re-evaluates the rejections she once allowed to define her.
