5 Best and Worst Trans Moments of 2016
After two years of increasing representation in television, film, music and television, the far-right political backlash arrived in the form of over a dozen anti-LGBT bills This article originally...
View ArticleReview: Apple AirPods Are Pretty F–king Cool
Can we all agree not to get too jaded about tech? Sure, there are a lot of superfluous gadgets out there, but there’s also a fair amount of stuff that’s actually pretty cool: high-flying camera drones,...
View ArticleHow Trump’s Win Is Changing Stand-Up Comedy
“Let’s talk about the phenomenon that is Donald Trump,” said Dana Carvey, opening his latest stand-up special, Straight White Male, 60. Released on Netflix just days before the presidential election,...
View ArticleWhy Hasn’t the Long Island Serial Killer Case Been Solved?
It was around dawn on a clear spring morning when Shannan Gilbert disappeared in Oak Beach, Long Island. A secluded, semi-private community at the eastern tip of a narrow barrier island, Oak Beach is a...
View Article5 Things You Didn’t Know About MGM Grand
It’s not difficult to come up with plenty of superlatives when it comes to Las Vegas hotels and casinos, with just about every one touting something as the biggest, largest, best feature. The MGM Grand...
View ArticleWatch Harrowing Trailer for Jay Z-Produced ‘TIME: The Kalief Browder Story’
A new trailer for a docuseries about a Bronx teenager, Kalief Browder, who was jailed for three years and spent two of them in solitary confinement for allegedly stealing a backpack, shows the...
View ArticleHow a ‘Star Wars’ Video Game Told ‘Rogue One’ Story 20 Years Ago
Dark Forces works its magic from its very first corridor. Here you are, in first-person, inside Star Wars. You’re holding a blaster, not one you recognize but one that’s ugly and asymmetrical in a way...
View ArticleHow Makers of ‘System Shock’ and ‘Ultima Underworld’ Rediscovered Their Roots
Sometime in early 1990, Paul Neurath showed the team at Origin Systems – creators of legendary games like Ultima and Wing Commander – a tech demo he’d built with programmer Doug Church and artist Doug...
View ArticleDEA: Marijuana Extracts Including CBD Are Schedule I Drugs
The Drug Enforcement Administration clarified that marijuana extracts – including cannabidiol (CBD) – fall under Schedule I drug classification, making all forms of the plant illegal under federal law,...
View Article‘Making a Murderer’ One Year Later: Everything You Need to Know
This weekend marks one year since Making a Murderer debuted on Netflix and unexpectedly proved to be holiday binge-watching gold. Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardo’s 10-episode docuseries about the case...
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