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Getty Images. Photo by Drew Angerer In early 2019 the L train in New York City will shut down for 15 months to repair damage caused during Hurricane Sandy. Leading up to the closure, VICE will be providing relevant updates and proposals, as well as profiles of community members and businesses along the affected route…
Photo: DEA / BIBLIOTECA AMBROSIANA/De Agostini via Getty Images The bathroom is a mysterious place. What goes on inside varies for everyone, or maybe it doesn’t; we simply do not know. The question has prompted some discussion in the past, and I suspect it will continue to do so until we are all under 24-hour…
In June, while the earth was experiencing a record-breakingly hot summer, a scientific paper was published in Nature Geoscience suggesting the planet’s long-term temperature rise could be double what was previously predicted by climate models. Drawing on the collaborative efforts of 17 international scientists, the same bleak study argued that the effects of climate change,…
Imagine a group of people who believe that manatees are destroying civilization. Even though there is abundant evidence showing that humans endanger manatees and not vice versa, this hypothetical group continues to insist that manatees are a menace. Imagine further that reporters are assigned to cover this group. But instead of including facts about manatees…
Image wrap box Free blurb with Takeaway A growing share of new homes on Airbnb are year-round rentals owned by hosts who never live in them. These rentals now surpass private rooms inside a house occupied by the host, one of Airbnb’s traditional offerings, according to company data for a week’s worth of listings from…
Melissa McCarthy plays detective Connie Edwards, who works with puppet partner Phil Philips (performed by Bill Barretta), in “The Happytime Murders,” a comedy directed by Brian Henson, the son of late puppet master Jim Henson. Hopper Stone/courtesy of STX Entertainment There are circumstances under which I could recommend The Happytime Murders, Brian Henson’s long-at-ninety-minutes detective…
‘The Happytime Murders’ Review: Melissa McCarthy’s Painfully Unfunny Puppet Noir Is an Utter Abomination The worst movie of the summer is here. /Author byline Share Tools /Share Tools IndieWire owes our readers an apology. Last week, in a moment of desperate optimism and/or extreme naïveté, this critic declared “Mile 22” was “far and away…
The Happytime Murders may not be this summer’s funniest movie. It may not be the smartest, or the most imaginative, or even, fundamentally, coherent. But it is most assuredly this summer’s only movie in which the plot hinges on the graphically depicted pubic hair of a nymphomaniac puppet. Life of the Party review – Melissa…
Ever since my mom died, I cry in H Mart. For those of you who don’t know, H Mart is a supermarket chain that specializes in Asian food. The “H” stands for han ah reum, a Korean phrase that roughly translates to “one arm full of groceries.” H Mart is where parachute kids go to…
Don’t believe your eyes and ears. Believe only me. That has been President Trump’s message to the public for the past two years, pounded in without a break: The press is the enemy. The news is fake. In raucous campaign rallies, in lie-filled Fox News interviews, through dissembling surrogates such as Kellyanne Conway and Rudolph…