The Summer When Everyone Wanted a Good, Good Night

The Summer When Everyone Wanted a Good, Good Night

I find it hard to even write the words “DJ Earworm.” I’ve tried to say the word “mashup” out loud alone while I’m typing, and it feels as though I’m saying, “Come see Lady Gaga perform at the Doritos Locos Tacos #Boldstage at SXSW, an activation powered by tweets.” But the fact remains: there is…

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Marriage Plot

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Marriage Plot

Celebrities get engaged all the time; sometimes they even go through with the wedding. Dua Lipa and Callum Turner recently got married at a town hall in London and then hosted a larger ceremony, a few days later, at a villa in Palermo. In June, Tom Holland confirmed that he and Zendaya had married in…

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Iconic Presidents Incognito

Iconic Presidents Incognito

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Ryan McGinley Tries to Photograph What It Means to Be Alive

Ryan McGinley Tries to Photograph What It Means to Be Alive

A few years later, McGinley’s work took an Edenic turn. He and his friends would pile into vans and light out for the territory in the grand tradition of American road-tripping. McGinley photographed models cavorting naked (always naked) through sand dunes in the Mojave Desert and pine forests in Vermont, in a frigid ice cave…

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China-backed AI tool behind fake Brad Pitt fight making Hollywood inroads

China-backed AI tool behind fake Brad Pitt fight making Hollywood inroads

Earlier this year, a widely circulated 15-second AI-generated video of Brad Pitt fighting Tom Cruise on a rooftop sparked outrage across Hollywood. One screenwriter called the cinematic clip “terrifying.” The Motion Picture Assn. demanded the company behind the artificial intelligence tool — Chinese tech giant ByteDance — halt its “infringing activity.” Despite the uproar, the…

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