Category Culture

Criminalizing Venezuela’s Street Culture

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On the morning of April 23, 2024, Claudio David Balkane González, a twenty-six-year-old musician from the state of Aragua, Venezuela, arrived at the Texas border. He had crossed nine countries in…

“Love Letters” Received Forty Years Later

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The diversity of streaming platforms can be likened to a multitude of libraries: countless treasures line the shelves, but they often get overlooked. One of the Criterion Channel’s strengths is its…

Two Paths for AI

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last spring, Daniel Kokotaylo, an AI safety researcher working at OpenAI, quit in protest. He felt the company was unprepared for the future of its technology, and he wanted to draw…

The finale of “Rehearsal” is strange and sublime

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Nathan Fielder, like Andy Kaufman, creates performance comedy that not only satirizes society but also experimentally shakes it, practicing his art in the middle ground between reality and fiction. He presents…

Where’s the movie magic this Memorial Day weekend?

Hollywood continues to produce blockbusters, but for moviegoers, the summer season isn’t what it used to be. Loading Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… As Mark Twain might have said, rumors of the death of the American movie audience are…