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It takes a specific kind of marketing mind to imagine that a dark and gritty reboot of a beloved children’s character can amount to anything good. While the Golden Age of Comic Books ultimately gave way to edgier storytelling in the Seventies and Eighties, and everything from Steamboat Willie to …

You can tell a lot about people by how they behave in a crisis. And it’s safe to say the voyage of the Carnival Triumph, better known as the Poop Cruise, was an icky, smelly, particularly grotesque kind of crisis —and that brought out some wild behavior. It happened way …

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, content creator, lawyer, and TikTok journalist Aaron Parnas sat with one of his closest friends, Sam Schmir, in Parnas’s living room. Until January, Schmir did digital strategy at the White House, and had texted earlier that it was a “slow news day” — a seemingly …

S uppose your idea of radio personality Charlamagne tha God comes from clips of the veteran host’s most absurd moments on his show, The Breakfast Club. Like, when he asked Magic Johnson his first thought after receiving his HIV diagnosis. Or when, during a segment with rapper and actor Safaree, …

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is like a symphony — a gorgeous classical concerto where an electric guitar occasionally cuts in to shred an off-putting, yet surprisingly sick riff. As a whole, it’s weird and uneven, but there’s something undeniably compelling about how those disparate parts fit together. If …

You can’t bullshit a bullshitter. Those were words disgraced Pittsburgh financial advisor Marty Blazer lived by. As a longtime money manager for professional athletes, and a veteran of the sleazy business of recruiting big time college stars as his future clients, Blazer knew the inner truths of the corrupt and …

“I will find a way to spill blood.” This was one of the many disturbing messages Alex Taylor typed into ChatGPT on April 25, the last day of his life. The 35-year-old industrial worker and musician had been attempting to contact a personality that he believed had lived — and …

I n late February, a group of budding radicals gathered in a bare-bones studio space in Brooklyn for a nervous first meeting. A far-right administration had taken power in Washington, D.C., just five weeks prior, immediately launching a nationwide assault on their community. Now, these 13 New Yorkers, default members …

The headaches began a week before diagnosis. I’d had migraines as a toddler, but these were worse – and each night, the fevers were brutal. I’m talking windburn bad, 104 degrees, the kind that full-strength Advil didn’t touch. Then my little stomach started to swell. I was four years old …

If elections were decided by the internet’s views on sex appeal, New York Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani would already be living in Gracie Mansion. As it is, the state assemblyman still has to face a crowded Democratic primary that will be decided by rank choice voting. But online, some …