From playing classical masterpieces and jazz standards on his violin to singing folk and rock, Andrew Bird continues to cross over music and performance genres. Special correspondent Mike Cerre caught up with Bird performing with the San Francisco Symphony...
Journalist Sam Roberts has written some 1,600 obituaries in his decades-long career at The New York Times. His new book, "Are They Dead Yet?" is about the art of obituary writing, how the Times chooses who's worthy of an...
We’re getting a clearer picture of who will be on the midterm ballots and the direction of the political parties after key primary races were decided in six states. Midwestern voters weighed in on party establishment candidates, insurgencies and...
Talent systems are built to notice speed. The child winning early is selected, funded and given more specialised practice. The slower child is easier to overlook, even when that slower development may be part of the path that eventually...
The man the Seattle Times tasked with the job of compressing cultural and political developments into tokens that the reader can share during a dinner party, or in a pub, or with the person next to them on a...
When you go to lap swim at one of Seattle’s public pools, the lanes are broken down by speed: very easy, easy, medium, fast, and very fast. “Medium” and “fast” lanes get crowded first; “easy” and “very fast” are...
It's almost time for the Made by Google keynote, where the company will show off the brand-new Pixel hardware it announced today. Like last year, it'll be a celebrity-packed live show, though Trevor Noah is hosting instead of Jimmy...
The 8BitDo mechanical keyboard and dual super buttons. | Image: The Verge
If you’re looking for a mechanical keyboard that can give your desk a touch of retro flair, Amazon has 8BitDo’s Retro Mechanical Keyboard with Dual Super Buttons on...
Petlibro’s Granary 2 feeder. | Image: Petlibro
A Petlibro outage is preventing its smart pet feeders and other devices from performing scheduled tasks, like dispensing food. The outage began on Tuesday, with users across Reddit reporting that their smart feeders,...
For all the R-rated antics of the slasher films of the 1970s and ’80s, there was a certain puritanical impulse driving the slaughter of horny hetero teens and the survival of the more sexually-disciplined, even as queer and feminist...
