Late April means one thing: startup season. As DisruptNY, the East Coast’s most prestigious startup showcase, approaches, the excitement is palpable. And for good reason: the tech giants of tomorrow are often the fledging ideas of today. But getting in on the hottest new startups is not easy. Tickets to DisruptNY go for $2,000, and the thirty hottest startups, on display...

There is nothing I fear more than the meandering pace of light, marking its celestial time across the lawns of our neighborhoods, yes moving also in crawling drips from our shoulders to our feet in the summer’s sticking dust that waves itself over everything eventually, in the course of a day. Some hemlock please, some quick choking here, in the bed...

Zeeshan-ul Hassan Usmani communicates best in numbers. The 35-year-old Pakistani is the founder and CEO of GoFig Solutions, an IT firm that has produced a software program that forecasts when and where suicide bombings might happen. GoFig’s BlastSim, a suicide bombing simulator, has the potential to permanently alter the state of international terrorism response and control. +++ Over the past decade,...

Computerized sounds echo across the room and Chinese characters flash across screens. Faces hang over them, brows furrowed in confusion. This is Art Video Games in China, an exhibit at the Ace Hotel in New York, which closed at the end of March. The exhibit featured video games from independent game designers based out of mainland China. The exhibit, which was...

I will present you with some facts about the documentary film Jodorowsky’s Dune: Jodorowsky’s Dune, a 2013 documentary film directed by Frank Pavich, allows Alejandro Jodorowsky—psychedelic filmmaker, actor, comic artist, musician, and spiritual guru—to recount the story of how in 1974, Jodorowsky, already renowned in the underground for his cult classic films El Topo and The Holy Mountain, began the two-year...

Adrienne Jones, a bartender at the Providence Hilton, says she was regularly required to work 15-hour days without breaks. She tried and failed to negotiate her hours so she could spend more time with her seven-year-old son. Hotel managers also refused to honor her request for floor mats behind the bar. Krystle Martin, who worked in the hotel’s restaurant, says that...

The Rhode Island School of Design Museum’s most recent display of Andy Warhol’s photography is an art exhibition with an identity crisis. Somewhere between art works and artifacts, the selection of 105 color and 52 black-and-white prints in Andy Warhol’s Photography comprise a unique view into Warhol’s relationship to the medium of photography. Whether the alluring images that Warhol produced while...

Student-athlete. The ordering stresses the primacy of scholastics over sports, and the hyphen suggests they are two parts of an inseparable whole. It’s a celebration of the confluence of academics and sports—the amateur ideal. But the term was not created to simply be a descriptor. Sports economist Andrew Zimbalist argues that it was crafted to help universities “fight against workmen’s compensation...