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Restaurants Are Hosting Blindfolded Dinners Because 'Bird Box' Looked Like So Much Fun

At one event, diners must remain silent and the three-course meal will be soundtracked with sounds of chirping birds and rushing water.
Jelisa Castrodale
1.10.19
Comics!

'Don't Be an Asshole,' Today's Comic by Tara Booth

Tara constantly has to remind herself not to be an ass.
Tara Booth
1.10.19
Ask A Lawyer

A Lawyer Explains How Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos's $137 Billion Divorce Could Play Out

“It doesn't really matter how much money you have. It depends what they're going to fight about.”
Beckett Mufson
1.10.19
Fighting Words

Keep Your Disgusting Bar Soap Away From Me and My Body Wash

I cannot believe that people willingly use this moisture-sucking, shower-sludging surfactant to clean themselves.
Susan Rinkunas
1.10.19
Listen

We Couldn't Stop Watching 'Nailed It' and 'Homecoming'

Corporate and culinary horror shows.
Rob Zacny
1.10.19
Culture

I Finally Started Binging 'The Sopranos': One Woman's Story

A life, counted in brushes with the heralded television show.
Kate Dries
1.10.19
Op-Ed

The Women of 'The Sopranos' Taught Me I Can Only Be Myself

On "The Sopranos," women can be wives or mistresses; dependent or independent; but the men of the show, like the men in my own life, may never see them as multifaceted, complex people.
Sophia Giovannitti
1.10.19
government shutdown

Prepare for a legal crisis if Trump calls a national emergency over the border wall

“Even just the act of doing it is really an assault on our constitutional, democratic system.”
Greg Walters
Nick Miriello
1.10.19
VICE News Tonight on HBO

We went to Karl Marx’s 200th birthday party in New York City

VICE News attended a celebration of 200 years of Karl Marx featuring Marxist DJs, academic panels, and whatever Slavoj Zizek was thinking four minutes ago.
Pieter Colpaert
1.10.19
Black Power Naps

This Comic About Street Harassment Is a Reminder You're Not Alone

Ornella Ospino's graphic story follows an Afro-Latinx trans woman dealing with street harassment through ancestral ritual.
Ornella Ospino
1.10.19
White Nationalism

GOP Rep. Steve King wants to know when, exactly, did being a white supremacist became a bad thing?

“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” King asked the New York Times.
Tess Owen
1.10.19
Essays

How Happy Pop Music Makes a Sad Film Even Sadder

'State Like Sleep' is a new movie that demonstrates how pop music deceptively underscores the most devastating moments in film and TV.
Sarah MacDonald
1.10.19
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