Extra Extra: Are Pop-Up Ads Trying To Sell You Peace Of Mind?
Dennis Fraevich
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People move out of cities all the time for the suburbs—that doesn't mean there's any sort of pandemic trend story there.
Torture yourself by playing around with the NY Times' interactive election predictor.
Amusement park owners are asking Governor Andrew Cuomo for immediate guidance on whether they can reopen or not.
In-person schooling for your kids or not? Here's how one parent decided.
Douglas Rushkoff revisits his 2016 piece "Survival of the Richest" in a new Medium post titled "The Privileged Have Entered Their Escape Pods," about our cocooned, technology-enabled present.
The Washington Post reports that Facebook took down a small network of fake accounts and pages associated with Russian operatives that had "recruited U.S. journalists to write articles targeting left-leaning readers on topics such as racial justice, the Biden-Harris campaign and President Trump's policies."
Everyone everywhere is stressed, and advertisers have noticed—and are now trying to sell people on peace of mind.
Game Of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are teaming up with writer Alexander Woo to adapt Liu Cixin's sci-fi epic The Three-Body Problem for Netflix.
Big Sean talked about the long gestation period for Detroit 2, his latest album due out this week.
David Byrne apologized for wearing blackface in a promo video for the Talking Heads' classic film Stop Making Sense.
And finally, don't worry, this video has a happy ending:
Ben Yakas was born and raised in New York, and has worked for Gothamist for over a decade, and WNYC for four years, covering literally everything. He has hung out with Dan Smith (who will teach you guitar), but still has yet to have a guitar lesson with him.