Can you manage to read at the beach? A summertime choose your own adventure.Many pitfalls and impediments lay between you and a day of enjoying your book in peace. Can you manage to get past everything arrayed against you? Choose wisely! Your phone buzzes. A text: “Hey we’re all headed out to the beach this Saturday. You should come!”
We’ve Hit Peak TheaterOne of the last premiere parties of the Broadway season felt a little on the nose. The Great Gatsby, a ballad-belting, pyrotechnic glow-up of F.
Mirzapur, Mismatched to Paatal Lok, The Family Man 3: What determines the gap between seasons on OTT?With OTT boom, Indian audience got introduced to the concept of seasons for a show. Having become accustomed to daily soaps, the new format found acceptance, but the rules of the wait for subsequent seasons remained uncertain.
Essential Writing Advice from Virginia Woolf“For heaven’s sake, publish nothing before you are thirty.”
The Early 2000s Fashion Trends Making A Comeback The early aughts and Y2K fashion made a return in 2022 and early 2023. From trucker hats, bedazzled tops, gradient sunglasses, velour tracksuits, and lowrise jeans, Y2K aesthetics were taking over.
In the Shabby-Chic Trenches of the Airport-Lounge WarsForty-eight years ago, the writer Renata Adler referred to the 747 as “that slum of the air,” and flying hasn’t improved much in the intervening decades.
Jane Schoenbrun Wants to Blow Up Your TVRepression was survival for Jane Schoenbrun. In their tidy, suburban enclave of Ardsley, New York, television was where they went to escape from the margins of reality. It was the 1990s, a golden age of TV. Supernatural dramas Twin Peaks and X-Files were appointment viewing.
The 4 Advanced RAG Algorithms You Must Know to ImplementWhat is your LLM Twin? It is an AI character that writes like yourself by incorporating your style, personality and voice into an LLM.
‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ Review: George Miller Paves the Way for ‘Fury Road’ with One of the Greatest Prequels Ever MadeYou can’t unkill the world. Charlize Theron’s Imperator Furiosa learned that lesson the hard way when she commandeered a rig full of Immortan Joe’s precious war brides and sped across the desert towards the matriarchal eden from which she was stolen as a child.
Remembering Steve AlbiniWhen Pitchfork broke the news last Wednesday morning that Steve Albini had died, it hit the Chicago scene like a thunderclap. Both as a recording engineer and as a musician, Albini had seemed like a permanent fixture, too thoroughly woven into the fabric of underground rock to leave it.
YouTube’s Secret Weapon to Win the TV Streaming Wars: Its Top CreatorsAs YouTube closes in on one year atop the Nielsen Gauge charts, some of its top creators weigh in on why the platform has become bigger than Netflix on TV sets. The stunt took weeks of preparation. Building a tank. Training with freedivers and magicians. Developing the filming schedule.
Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff Have Reached Their LimitOf all the unpredictable creative exchanges Jack Antonoff has experienced, only one has been digitally immortalized forever — and it was the one.
Upgrade your Mac setup with these products: My favoritesIf you’re looking to take your desk setup to the next level, this is the guide for you. Head below for some of my favorite products that can improve your working setup, ranging from accessories to decorations and more.
Removing Dead Bodies from Mount Everest Is Dangerous and Expensive. Here’s Why.Heading out the door? Read this article on the Outside app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app.
Toronto’s Arts Institutions Are Crumbling and it’s Always the Same StoryI sometimes think that Canada is the worst place in the world to be an artist. I sometimes think that this country might actually be anti-art.