When Cassidy Claire Risien, 34, first toured Haven, a co-living space whose Instagram features images of attractive, hard-bodied Los Angelenos surfing, doing beachside yoga, and having rooftop vegan meals, she was immediately drawn to it. Not only was into the amenities, such as a meditation and yoga studio, home theater, …
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“YouTube at 15” is our package of stories to celebrate the streaming site’s anniversary. It’s hard to imagine, but there really was a time before makeup tutorials, conspiracy explainers, on-demand music videos — really, viral videos at large. Since it’s become such a ubiquitous part of culture, we set out …
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Two years after his death and 50 years after the infamous murders he orchestrated, Charles Manson is still fascinating some and inciting terror in others. This time, it’s in the form of two masks of his likeness that reportedly contain his cremated remains, as well as human blood. This unusual …
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This story was originally published in the April 22nd, 1976, issue of “Rolling Stone.” YOU’D THINK THAT BABA Ram Dass, who had been a Harvard psychology professor and psychedelic drug researcher in his former incarnation as Dr. Richard Alpert, Ph.D., would know all about mind games by now. And yet …
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Not so long ago, there was no public shame in being a dirty old man. While political pundits proclaimed 1992 the Year of the Woman, Donald Trump was manhandling an NFL cheerleader on camera, with pedo-predator Jeffrey Epstein snickering right next to him. In the early 2000s, when Donald Trump …
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The numbers are in: This Broadway season broke attendance and box-office records (nearly $2 billion), which should really juice up the Tony Awards this year. Why? I’d call it Hollywood heat. Stars of movies, TV and YouTube converged on Broadway this year like never before. Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and …
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It was once simply understood that, if you smoked weed, there were good effects and there were bad. A strain for relaxation might also lead you to gorge an entire box of cookies; a variety that helped ease social anxiety for a party might leave you unable to mutter a …
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In recent years, the opioid crisis and the toll it has taken on American families has dominated headlines. Now that nearly 400,000 American lives have been lost, there’s been much debate over who the true culprits behind the epidemic are, from Big Pharma to doctors to billlionaire families like the …
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When I was touring colleges way back in 2007, a tour guide said something to my group that struck me as both totally right and totally wrong. “Getting into college is like picking out a puppy. It seems stressful at first, but at the end of the day, you get …
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On behalf of Patriots fans everywhere, I apologize for the Super Bowl. We know it was a terrible game. We also know you hate us. Hell, I hate us. Even we don’t enjoy this that much anymore. My personal excitement level Sunday night was between enjoying a good cheeseburger and …
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