Well, even though it feels like the world has gone mad, at least Bill Clinton has been embracing his creative side. He’s writing a novel with James Patterson, and now he’s got a crossword in the New York Times. The former president’s puzzle debuted today as part of a series composed with the help of celebrities to…
Today, the Pulitzer Prize board announced the winners of its 2017 awards honoring excellence in journalistic and creative endeavors, and though the belligerent potato currently stinking up the White House probably won’t appreciate it, three of the winners happen to be from one of his favorite targets: the so-called…
In a move that practically ensures a fresh onslaught of angry, inarticulate tweets from POTUS, The New York Times mistakenly referred to Ivanka Trump as her father’s wife in a recent article that tracks the number of visits the president has made to his privately-owned properties on the country’s dime and time.…
The New York Times ran a TV commercial during the Oscars tonight, its first since 2010. Its last ad was a celebration of the venerable newspaper’s coverage of all the exciting happenings in New York—a beat that, after 150 years, the Times had really gotten the hang of. Tonight’s spot was noticeably dourer, but no less…
With the president effectively telling reporters to shut the hell up—we’re sorry, we meant the co-president, of course—these are especially hard times for journalism, which has already seen its print branch in decline. The New York Times has vowed to keep doing its thing, though, despite the Twitter barrage coming…
Anyone familiar with Jay Z’s career knows that the rapper’s early days as a drug dealer in New York loom large in his lyrics. Over and over again, his songs revisit his personal Horatio Alger story, explaining how he started as a soldier in the drug war before he became a multimillionaire entertainer and entrepreneur.…
I’ve never been much of a beer drinker (wine, please), which means that I’m an even-worse beer pourer. The Onion kitchen boasts not one but two kegs, and nearly every time I approach them, I wind up with a beer milkshake: about seven inches of foam and one inch of actual liquid at the bottom. So when I signed up to…
Miss Cleo, the Jamaican-accented, self-styled psychic whose ads dominated the TV airwaves in the late 1990s and early 2000s, might have been a woman of extraordinary talents, but she was only one person. There was no way she could answer all those phone calls from lonely customers seeking advice about romance, money,…
The New York Times has a new little game called Can You Beat Usain Bolt Out Of The Blocks? We will answer for you: Probably not. Jamaica’s Bolt brought home gold in the 100-meter sprint in Rio last night. He has now won gold in the 100-meter race for three consecutive Olympics, and he’s the first athlete to ever do…
When A.V. Club food editor Kevin Pang was growing up, he and his father, Jeffrey, did not always get along famously, to put it mildly. In many ways, their volcanic battles were rooted in a clash of cultures. The family had moved to the United States from Hong Kong, and the son took to such Western concepts as…
Last August, in an eight-minute video created for The New York Times, the formidable trio of Skrillex, Justin Bieber, and Diplo got all self-reflective and black-and-white in breaking down the creative process behind their hit single “Where Are U Now.” The video, while artfully shot, is almost achingly pretentious,…
Two weeks ago, MythBusters hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage announced that the show’s 14th season, which starts in January, would be its last. And yesterday, The New York Times published a piece ably explaining why we all owe MythBusters a debt of gratitude for making science cool again.
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: With both Gone Girl and Left Behind opening in theaters, we look back on other adaptations of books that went to No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list.
