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shopping-deals

The Best Deals This Week, From Treadmills to Tiny Vacuums
We’re bringing big savings on everything from chic denim and roller skates to sex toys, mattresses, and more.
Rec Room Staff
4.15.22
shopping-style

The Coolest New Drops This Week, From Our Place to L.L. Bean
Slip your freaky little springtime self into some Kubrickian board shorts, GANNI sneakers, and Aéropostale's collab with… Cheetos?
Rec Room Staff
4.15.22
shopping-wellness

The Best CBD for Any Purpose You Can Imagine
The best CBD products are ones that fit into your self-soothing journey—and these tinctures, topicals, and smokeables offer something for everyone.
Adam Rothbarth
4.15.22
Tech

Meet the Gig Workers Making (a Ton of) Art for the NFT Boom
For every Bored Ape, there are millions of other images vying for attention on the blockchain. So who actually makes them?
Lucas Gelfond
4.15.22
shopping-home

Why 80s Cocaine Decor Is the Perfect Design Shift for 2022
Sugar booger decor is sexy, black-lacquered, and here to shake us out of our COVID-era blues.
Mary Frances "Francky" Knapp
4.15.22
housing

Rent Prices Are Truly, Deeply Fucked Right Now
This is a blog about horrible housing statistics.
Emma Ockerman
4.15.22
police

College Cop Was Secretly a Racist, Anti-Homeless Reddit Troll for Years
University of Colorado Boulder police officer Drew Matthews has been placed on administrative leave for a series of racist, classist Reddit posts.
Trone Dowd
4.15.22
Starbucks

Leaked Memo: Starbucks Threatens Pay and Benefits Freeze on Workers if They Unionize
“If a union is certified, benefits and wages will essentially be frozen while the parties negotiate the contract,” the letter stated.
Paul Blest
4.15.22
Politics

Texts Show Mike Lee Released ‘the Kraken’ and Tried to Give Trump a Smarter Coup Plan
Utah Sen. Mike Lee spent months texting White House chief of staff Mark Meadows strategies he thought Trump should be using to overturn the election.
Cameron Joseph
4.15.22
green energy

Wind Power Surpasses Coal, Nuclear as Power Generation Source in US
For an entire day, wind power became the second-largest source of electricity in the country for the first time in recorded history.
Audrey Carleton
4.15.22
Politics

The DOJ Is Up Against the Clock to Prosecute Trump for Jan. 6
We talked to a federal prosecutor about a potential criminal referral by the Jan. 6 committee, and how we’re all living in Merrick Garland’s head.
Todd Zwillich
4.15.22
Starbucks

Starbucks Posts Fake Union Tweets in Anti-Union Flyers
The tweets are made to look like they’re coming from accounts that don’t exist, or are dated in a way that makes them obviously fake, union organizers said.
Samantha Cole
4.15.22
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