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Taking advice on consciousness from Michael Pollan, John Horgan, and Emma Stone.
1879, Worcester, Massachusetts: Simon Stapleton meets Louise.
The identity crisis of American universities is a backdrop for Netflix’s satirical erotic thriller Vladimir.
Half-truths now acceptable in the media.
Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic presaged the “Golden Age of TV,” but the movie itself isn’t talked about much now.
Passage for the Dutch and all that remains of so much gone.
Horror can change you for the worse.
On Sean Penn's The Pledge (2001) and its Hungarian origins.
HBO’s DTF St. Louis has used its lurid premise to develop a cynical reading of midlife anxiety.
How a Santa Cruz sports bar's logo backfired in “Surf City.”
On Hoppers and Goat, two new animated films that are better than most.
More New York Times couldn’t-care-less “journalism.” What year is it (#616)?
They won’t leave the ghetto.
Who is Jiang Xueqin?
Noem looks pushed out but may have failed upward.
Now that one rules the world, fabulist jokes just aren’t that funny anymore.
Critics today don’t know how to write about artists.
A Baltimore artist, poet, and teacher.
That creative people are heavily medicated might help explain the decline of popular music and film.
I wasn’t going to lose half of everything in a divorce.
Causing cardiac events on cable news since the 1990s.
Retro music inspires a new generation of thinkers.
Oscar nominees available to see online.
The system is rigged in favor of law enforcement.
The musician and photographer talks about her new book, her time in Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins, and more in this recent interview.
The actor talks about Sabrina and nearly walks off the set after certain questions become too personal.
The singer from Tool and A Perfect Circle shops at Amoeba Music and talks about his selections.
The actor talks Hollywood and politics in this new 100 minute interview.
Lewis Largent talks to Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke in this April 25, 1993 episode of MTV's 120 Minutes.
The Governor of California talks about SAT scores, Jerry Lewis, and more in this new interview.
The late singer-songwriter lets loose in this rare tour footage from 1999.
The brothers talk about their 2001 film in this interview produced by the Criterion Collection.
The legendary musician performs one of his biggest hits on The Old Grey Whistle Test on Christmas Eve 1982.
The author talks about her book Occult Feminism: The Secret History of Women's Liberation and more in this new interview.
The writer returns to talk rock mechanics, Nick Fuentes, public avatars, and more.