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How ‘Egypt’s Jon Stewart’ Went From Public Enemy to TV Star
How to Become the Most Celebrated Satirist in the Middle East, a Step-by-Step Guide:Step One: Become a heart surgeon. Live to middle age. Step Two: Witness the Arab Spring first-hand. Get angry at the media’s portrayal of protesters in Tahrir Square, and at the advice of a friend, post takedowns…

Black Gun Owners Speak Out About Facing a Racist Double Standard
Cory Hughes marched in Florida after Trayvon Martin was shot, in Ferguson for Michael Brown and in Baltimore for Freddie Gray. Last Thursday, the Black Lives Matter activist stood in a park in downtown Dallas giving a speech about Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, and his frustration with deaths like theirs. “I basically told [the crowd]…

Death by Selfie: 10 Disturbing Stories of Social Media Pics Gone Wrong
The never-ending pursuit of the ultimate shot for social media sharing has reached a startling new height: 8,000 feet above sea level. This month, a grown man fell to his death while posing for a picture on a ledge at Machu Picchu, the ancient Incan citadel in Peru. But death…

Daveed Diggs, Renee Elise Goldsberry to Leave ‘Hamilton’
Hamilton is losing two more principals. As AP reports, Daveed Diggs, who plays Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson, and Renée Elise Goldsberry, who portrays Angelica Schuyler, are both leaving the wildly popular Broadway musical. Both actors won Tonys for their roles in the hit hip-hop musical. Diggs is slated to depart on…

‘Pokemon Go’: 10 Strangest Pokestop Locations
By now, you’ve heard about Pokémon Go, the long-promised “augmented-reality game” that instantly became one of the biggest mobile games of all time and a pop culture phenomenon. It’s only been available in the United States for a week, and its audience is currently estimated to be the same size as…

Why ‘Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’ Was Five Years in the Making
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is the latest in a series of games that routinely tackles quite complex social issues by exploring the impact of technology on the human condition. While that sounds pretty heavy and potentially not much fun, it wraps its social commentary in a cyberpunk-themed, futuristic role-playing game…

Synthetic Marijuana: Everything You Need to Know About the Drug K2
Over 30 people were hospitalized yesterday in New York City, the latest event in an epidemic that’s been affecting the country’s poorer populations since 2008. Synthetic marijuana, also known as K2 or Spice, was long available over the counter in corner stores and head shops, an unregulated, unpredictable chemical substance that…

‘Mr. Robot’: Four of the Show’s Best Hacks, Explained
When it comes to hacking, Mr. Robot has one rule: If it can’t be done in real life, it doesn’t appear on the show. That’s where Kor Adana comes in. A former teenage hacker who went straight after a brush with the law, Adana used to work as a cyber-security…

America’s Underground Prank-Call King Speaks
When Rolling Stone e-mailed the address on Longmont Potion Castle’s website, it wasn’t clear whether anyone would actually reply. And meeting the underground prank-call legend in person seemed entirely out of the question. But there we were a week later, in front of a cheesy, semi-chain sports bar in Westminster, Colorado. A man…

FBI Ends D.B. Cooper Investigation After 45 Years
After 45 years, the FBI has closed one of its strangest unsolved cases: The 1971 disappearance of D.B. Cooper, last seen leaping from an airplane with $200,000 in ransom money strapped to his body. In a statement, the FBI said it was ending “one of the longest and most exhaustive investigations…

Indicted Polygamous Sect Leader Escaped FBI With Olive Oil
Lyle Jeffs, the indicted leader of the polygamist sect Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), likely used olive oil to slip off his GPS ankle monitor while under house arrest, according to The Associated Press. The FLDS bishop had been released from jail in June after his…

Is ‘Pokemon Go’ Really Driving a Crime Wave?
With Pokémon Go overtaking our parks, changing how we discover dead bodies, and, well, basically infecting most of our lives, it’s not surprising that there have been more than a few strange tales to come out of the real-world interactions that the game requires. On Sunday, cops from the O’Fallon Missouri Police…

How Pokemania Broke ‘Pokemon Go’
The long-promised augmented-reality game Pokémon Go rolled out to iOS and Android on July 6th, instantly becoming one of the biggest mobile games of all time, and a bona fide pop cultural phenomenon to boot. And then it broke. The original plan was for the game to be gradually turned on…

10 Major Moments in Rock the Vote History
In a presidential race as baffling as this, it’s hard to imagine not voting come November. But surely many people will do just that — fewer than 54 percent of Americans turned up at the polls in 2012. Voter turnout for presidential elections was even more abysmal in the late Eighties…

Protestor in Iconic Black Lives Matter Photo Identified
The protestor in an already-iconic photo from Black Lives Matter’s protests in Baton Rogue has been identified. In the image, the woman – Ieshia Evans, according to The Atlantic – stands stoic in a roadway across from police officers wearing riot gear. A list of the 102 protestors arrested Saturday specifies…

WTF Is ‘Pokémon Go,’ Explained
This weekend, you might have noticed some people – more people that usual – wandering around staring at their phones. To the untrained eye, it might have just looked like more tourists than usual were descending on your town, trying to follow a digital map to their next location. But…

Texas’ Gun Culture and Politics Made Dallas Shooting Inevitable
A little over a year ago, a mentally ill Dallas-area man named James Lance Boulware, angry over losing custody of his son, bought an armored van on eBay, marketed as a “Zombie Apocalypse Assault Vehicle.” The van had gun ports under each of its blacked-out windows. Just after midnight one…

Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Emotional Final ‘Hamilton’ Curtain Call
Lin-Manuel Miranda ended his Tony-winning run as Alexander Hamilton in the history-making Broadway show he wrote and starred in Saturday night with an emotional curtain call. The July 9th performance also marked the final Hamilton appearances of Leslie Odom Jr., who played Aaron Burr in the hip-hop-inspired historical musical, and Phillipa…

Dallas Shooting Taught Me My Greatest Fear: Going Back
Last night, watching TV, I felt my heart sink. As I read the news crawl stating that five Dallas police officers had been killed after an anti-police-brutality protest, two distinct waves of terror washed over me. It was a sensation I hadn’t felt since the Rodney King verdict, when, as a…

Death on Live-Stream: How Social Media Changed the Way We Mourn
You wake up and reach for your phone, check Twitter, and that’s when you first see the name. You’ll read it hundreds of times over the next couple of weeks – in hashtags, articles, protest signs, eventually even on T-shirts. If you’re lucky, it’s the name of a stranger, but you know…

‘Half-Life 3’: Waiting for the Game That May Never Come
At the conclusion of the most recent chapter of Valve Corporation’s multi-million selling Half-Life series, the player and a companion character have managed to triumph in a lengthy, grueling battle against the alien invaders known as the Combine. Just as you’re about to board a helicopter and find answers to…

After Dallas, We Don’t Need to Say ‘Blue Lives Matter’
Do we need to assert that Blue Lives Matter? In the wake of the killing of five Dallas police officers Thursday, it might seem so. President Obama called the shooting “vicious, calculated and despicable.” The New York Post proclaimed “Civil War” on its cover. In the same week when thousands…

‘Making a Murderer’: What Did Steven Avery’s Neighbor See?
Fans of Making a Murderer might recall that one of the more damning pieces of evidence against accused murderer Steven Avery is that victim Teresa Halbach’s car was found in the Avery Salvage Yard, located on the same property as Avery’s home, where the murder allegedly occurred. Halbach, a freelance photographer…

Ben Whishaw on Brexit, Beards and Life After ‘The Crucible’
Most of us remember The Crucible, and its tale of persecution during the 17th-century Salem witch trials, from high school English class. Arthur Miller originally intended the play as a parable about Communism and the Red Scare in 1950s America, but in the current Broadway revival of the classic –…

Watch President Obama’s Address on ‘Despicable’ Dallas Police Shooting
In a late-night address from Warsaw, Poland, President Obama discussed Thursday’s tragedy in Dallas in which two snipers killed five police officers and wounded several other officers and civilians. He called the shooting a “vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement,” and noted that although details on the shooters remain scarce, their motivations are undoubtedly “twisted.”  “Let’s be…

Beyonce: ‘The War on People of Color and All Minorities Needs to Be Over’
Beyoncé has shared a powerful, incisive statement on injustice and police brutality on her official site following the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. The separate, unrelated deaths of both men at the hands of police officers earlier this week were recorded and went viral within hours of their…

How Brothers Behind ‘Myst’ Reunited to Create Mysterious New VR World
For gamers, at least ones with long memories, it may be a reunion as exciting as Nathan Drake reuniting with Sully at the end of Uncharted 3. Rand and Robyn Miller, the brothers behind 1993’s mind-blowingly innovative computer game Myst, haven’t worked together since Bill Clinton was president. But on July 26th,…

Broadway Stars Team for Orlando Benefit Concert
A slew of Broadway stars will perform a benefit concert in honor of the victims of the Orlando nightclub massacre July 25th at Orlando’s Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, The Associated Press reports. “From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Orlando” will feature performances from Brian Stokes Mitchell, Norbert Leo Butz, Kelli…

Why the Gun-Control Lobby Is Playing Catch-Up With the NRA
On a recent evening in New York’s West Village, 160 people calling themselves GAG — Gays Against Guns — pack an auditorium at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center to celebrate a victory, and plan for the road ahead. The previous day, at the city’s Pride parade, GAG…

Sick of Police Shootings? America Asked for Them
You could begin yesterday by watching video of a black man in Louisiana killed by police as he lay on the ground. You could end it by watching another black man, this time shot by police in Minnesota, slowly bleed to death in a car as a seven-year-old girl looked on from…

New App Offers 15 Seconds of Stardom
Two years ago, Alex Zhu was the co-CEO of a failing educational app called Cicada, which allowed students to watch lectures by experts in a variety of fields. One afternoon, he spotted kids on a train in Mountain View, California, taking photos and videos while blasting music, and he was…

Drake Pens Open Letter on Alton Sterling’s Death
Drake has penned an open letter on Instagram in response to the death of Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man who was shot multiple times and killed during an altercation with two white Baton Rouge police officers on Tuesday. A community activist captured the incident on a cellphone video and posted it…

Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Farewell ‘Ham4Ham’ Appearance
Hamilton creator and soon-to-be leaving lead star Lin-Manuel Miranda made his final “#Ham4Ham” appearance, where he and other cast members perform for fans waiting in the Broadway show’s lottery ticket line. In a video filmed on Wednesday, he discussed how the event first developed, read a love letter and sang. Miranda read a love…

‘Inside,’ Successor to Indie Hit ‘Limbo,’ Is a Disturbing Masterpiece
So here you are again – a boy, alone in the woods. There’s no explanation, no backstory, no words at all, in fact: just a place that feels as deep as it is deadly. You move, in the greatest of video game traditions, from left to right. But even your…

Beyond Slender Man: When Teens Use the Internet for Evil
The 2014 Slender Man stabbings were like an InternetInternet skeptic’s fever dream come to life: two 12-year-old girls, both socially isolated, one possibly mentally ill, read stories about a (fictional) bogeyman online, became obsessed with him, and allegedly tried to murder one of their middle school classmates in his name….

What Happened to the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts?
In 1997, the year after her son was fatally shot in Las Vegas, Afeni Shakur launched the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, which hosted an annual performing arts day camp for inner city youth in the Atlanta area. She was inspired by how the gifted rapper, actor and one-time dancer studied…

Watch Oscar Pistorius Get Sentenced for Murder
Oscar Pistorius, the first amputee sprinter to compete at both the Paralympics and the Olympics, was sentenced to six years in prison for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp. The sentence was announced by South African judge Thokozile Masipa on Wednesday. Related: 22 Biggest Sports Controversies of 2013 “Although a…

Pablo Escobar’s Brother Blasts ‘Narcos’ for ‘Lies,’ Seeks Profit
Roberto Escobar, brother of infamous drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, has requested that Netflix correct “mistakes, lies and discrepancies” found in the first season of crime-thriller Narcos, which explores the rise and fall of the Colombian drug lord. Roberto, the accountant in the Escobar empire, recently submitted a letter to the…

Marvel Reveals Black Woman to Assume ‘Iron Man’ Role in Comics