The Texas Free Flow of Information Act, which would bring to the state a reporter’s privilege,passeda final legislative hurdle Thursday and is now boundfor Gov. Rick Perry’s desk. Witha 146 to 0 votein favor of HB 670, the Texas Houseapproved minor Senate amendments tolegislationthat would provide reporters with a qualified privilege from being compelled in […]
The BBC made a more secure version of its website available on the Tor, a privacy-focused browser that makes it more difficult to monitor a user’s online activity. In an effort to fight media censorship, the BBC has made a version of its website available on Tor, a privacy-focused browser that makes it more difficult […]
Slave Play is the most-talked-about show on Broadway right now. In just under two hours, the play takes on race, sex, power, colorism, inequality, sexual inadequacy, gentrification, rape, and mental illness. The play hinges on a twist (spoiler alert): What first appears to be a story about sexual relationships on an antebellum plantation is eventually […]
On my list of indulgent fantasies, right next to a Mariah Carey–sized closet filled with everything Diahann Carol wore on Dynasty, is having a personal stylist. Just imagine: no more trekking to the store to try on a bunch of outfits in a cramped dressing room, instead the store comes to you. That might take […]
Recently, I saw a conversation between a few women I follow on Twitter about Fiona Apple, who was profiled by Vulture last month. In the course of her interview, Apple mentions that she’s stopped drinking, but has started smoking more weed instead: “Alcohol helped me for a while, but I don’t drink anymore,” she says. […]
Felicity Huffman has been sprung from jail early after serving just 11 days of her 14-day sentence, per TMZ. Huffman was serving time at a prison in Northern California, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud in order to get her daughter a higher SAT score. Her already short sentence was cut even […]
Jami Attenberg is a best-selling author who recently published her sixth novel, All This Could Be Yours. Her dog, Sid, is a puggle who loves eating and snuggling. Can she tell you about him? On how she and Sid came together: I was finishing up a book tour, and I promised myself that if I […]
In these modern times, where work is constant and stress unending, it can be hard to find genuine tranquility. But now, thanks to tiny rat cars that “relax” their rodent drivers, it’s beginning to dawn upon my tiny rat brain that anything can be soothing, and that self-care is really about doing what you like […]
It’s a case that has perplexed officials across the world: On October 23, paramedics discovered a refrigerated truck container holding 39 dead bodies in an industrial park outside of London. How and why they ended up there is unclear. Over the past few days, officials from at least five countries have been trying to gather […]
There was Martha (Stewart). There was Bruce (Springsteen). There was Tory (Burch). There was Karlie (Kloss). They were all crowded into the Met last night to celebrate one man: Ralph, a man for whom no parenthetical is required. The occasion was the premiere of Very Ralph, the new HBO documentary about Ralph Lauren, one of the […]