CANNES — Netflix’s “How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)” kicks off with a police special unit, automatic rifles trained, moving in silently for asking. The target, a buff teen drug dealer, at work in his basement lab lair. Read More...
The Lowline site as it was in 2016. Photograph: Andrew EinhornIn two years’ time, the Lower East Side will be home to the world’s first underground ‘green’ space – the Lowline
by Jake NevinsTo get a glimpse of what will eventually become the Lowline, a subterranean Eden being billed as the world’s first underground park, you have to swipe your MetroCard at the Lower East Side’s Delancey Street station, go down one flight of stairs, go down another, slither through a few characteristically congested subway corridors, and then up another flight, to the J train platform. Read More...
Re-imagine looking back to the moment that revolutionized tennis nearly 50 years ago. The match in 1973, tagged as the ‘Battle of the Sexes’, the popular clash between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, made headlines once again. But this time not on the tennis court but on the television screens. That was apparently the case in the most recent Saturday Night Live episode, which streamed on Netflix’s Untold series. Read More...