Edith Zimmerman profiles future Captain America Chris Evans for GQ, gets drunk, passes out at his house, and doesn’t remember any of it: Up until half an hour earlier, I hadn’t actually known what did happen. In fact, I had spent the week practicing breezy and reportorial-sounding questions like “For fact-checking purposes, can you give [...]
The Atlantic offers a comprehensive walkthrough –with photos! — of the new iOS 5 features demonstrated during last week’s WWDC keynote address.
Aaron Sorkin interviews David Carr for Interview Magazine: SORKIN: What did you major in? CARR: Um … Frisbee and smoking doobies … But I did double major in journalism and psychology at the University of Minnesota. I began working at a great little weekly that no longer exists called the Twin Cities Reader. My first [...]
Grantland chronicles the rapid rise and fall of The National, an attempt at producing a national daily newspaper dedicated to sports that became infamous for spending money, shall we say, frivolously: [Editor-in-Cheief Frank] Deford: Oh, Christ. John [Feinstein] was overseas. The French Open ends. It’s another three weeks before Wimbledon. He calls me up and [...]
Ian Ranking overreacts, at The Quietus, about not receiving Radiohead’s deluxe newspaper album on time: Radiohead have tried to subvert the traditional system, to set themselves up as a cottage industry paid for by the fans and in tune with those fans. However, at a point in history when it has never seemed so important [...]
Chuck Klosterman — in his inaugural column for Grantland — on the most memorable sporting event he’s ever witnessed: Attending school at [United Tribes Technical College] is the polar opposite of idyllic. But that’s just how college life was (and still is) for so many Native American students — it’s just that nobody pays attention. [...]
John Jeremiah Sullivan on getting stoned at Disney World and so much more: Now we were truly at Disney World. A person didn’t come here every day! What is the scene here? Hello, primary colors; hello, quickly fading microdramas of passing human faces, incessantly deciding whether to make eye contact; hello, repeating stalls and gift [...]
Steve Jobs presents Apple’s plans for their new campus to the Cupertino City Council: An incredible vision of what a corporation can achieve when thought and care go into every decision. via macrumors
From Sarah Miller at The Awl: “You know I’ve never even seen any of the Harry Potter movies,” her roommate said. “I know,” Emma said, taking care to keep her tone light. “You mentioned that several times last night while you were sighing over how hard it was to get bit torrent to download Satyricon [...]
Settlers of Catan is going mainstream: After Settlers was first released in 1995, a small but passionate following emerged. It wasn’t until a decade later that the game’s popularity began to blossom. “The start of the tipping point was 2008,” said Bob Carty, a spokesman for Settlers manufacturer Mayfair Games. “Settlers is three to five [...]