Each installment of “The Friendship Files” features a conversation between The Atlantic’s Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship. This week she talks with two women who forged a friendship in crisis. When Sarah’s husband left her for another woman—while she was …
Read More »Leave The Video Transcription To VidTags
If you’ve even endeavored into video marketing, then you know just how time-consuming and frustrating plodding through videos seeking information can be. While frustrating, it’s needed to retrieve and break down information. Wouldn’t it be great if a program could do it for you? VidTags can, and for a limited …
Read More »Electronic Road Sign in Maryland Hacked to Show Racial Slur
Photo: TasfotoNL (Shutterstock) We’ve all seen those electronic road signs on the highway every day that read, “Expect Delays,” or “Wear a Seatbelt,” or “Traffic Ahead.” In Hagerstown, Maryland someone decided it would be a funny idea to hack an electronic message sign overnight to display a racial slur. It …
Read More »The Fight for Our Attention
In one early scene in Lauren Oyler’s novel Fake Accounts, the narrator snoops through her boyfriend’s phone. His apps are arranged in an unfamiliar way, and looking with fresh eyes makes all the colorful options—a camera, an internet browser, two ride-sharing services—immediately overwhelming. “The effect was to prevent the eye …
Read More »Paramount Pulls Plug On ‘Assisted Living’ Comedy After Cardi B Drops Out Of $30M Film
Just a week away from the production set to start in New York, its star Cardi B has just pulled out of the Assisted Living cast. The remaining cast and crew were just informed that the comedy has been temporarily canceled, according to Deadline, who broke the story. The $30 …
Read More »NFL's Deshaun Watson Won't Be Charged In Criminal Sexual Assault Investigation
Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson (4) practices with the team during NFL football practice Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, in Houston.Photo: Justin Rex (AP) Deshaun Watson won’t be heading to trial–or jail–following an investigation on sexual assault allegations by multiple women. The Houston Texans quarterback, who missed all of last season while …
Read More »‘I Imagined a Future That Was Neither Utopian nor Dystopian’
The union of the filmmaker Kogonada and the actor Colin Farrell might not have seemed obvious at first glance. Kogonada’s debut film, the excellent 2017 indie Columbus, is told with quiet remove—the camera is often placed quite a distance away from the lead actors (John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson). …
Read More »Dwight Howard’s Ex Royce Reed Surrenders Herself to Authorities For Felony Child Neglect
Basketball Wives alum Royce Reed was released from jail shortly after turning herself in for felony child neglect. On Friday, Reed was charged with third-degree felony neglect of a child in a case involving her 14-year-old son, Braylon, whom she shares with NBA star Dwight Howard, Radar Online reports. The …
Read More »In The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Samuel L. Jackson Is a Man on a Memorable Mission—If Only for A Little While
Samuel L. Jackson in “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey,” premiering globally March 11, 2022 on Apple TV+.Photo: Courtesy of AppleTV+ If the saying is true that “all a man is, is what he remembers,” then the very vivid—and at times very fleeting—memories of Ptolemy Grey’s life, as shown in …
Read More »Nine Books to Read to Understand the War in Ukraine
Kyiv is burning. I am struggling to explain this to my young children; they know that I wrote a book about the 2013–14 Ukrainian revolution on the Maidan, Kyiv’s central square. They were too small then to understand that their parents’ friends and colleagues were being shot at by snipers. …
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