Near the tail end of Todd Haynes’s lush, lyrical anti-biopic I’m Not There — inspired by the music and the many lives of Bob Dylan, we’re told during the opening credits — one of the many actors who doesn’t quite play Dylan, Christian Bale, puts on a fatherly gut, grows out his fro, cinches his [...]
Our guest curator, Molly, attends middle school in lower Manhattan. An expert in Web-surfing, she considers YouTube just one of the places to find cool things. The following is the product of two years’ worth of careful YouTube analysis. These are the links every person on the planet should know.
1. Muffins
At first, you want some [...]
When Walter Benjamin wrote in 1938 that one may understand the problems associated with a society through a reading of its consumer goods, even his best friend and fellow Frankfurt School thinker, Teddy Adorno, thought that he was taking the whole Marxism thing a little too far.
When Herbert Marcuse wrote in 1964 that advanced industrial [...]
You put an ad for your convertible on Craigslist, asking way less than what you paid for it six months ago, because the top leaks. You feel funny about even listing it at all, as whoever buys it is going to have a real headache on their hands: It’s apparently ludicrously expensive to fix a [...]