The Nolita Guide: A Local’s Map to the Best Restaurants, Bars and Shops

The Nolita Guide: A Local’s Map to the Best Restaurants, Bars and Shops

Six blocks wide, four blocks tall, written in a typography all its own: Nolita is a neighborhood anomaly that ignores Manhattan’s grid system and is better for it. Named streets—Mulberry, Mott, Elizabeth—replace numbers between Houston and Kenmare, Bowery and Lafayette. Federal-era row houses lean into narrow tenements with their original cornices still bolted on, while…

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Taylor Lautner’s Wife Tay Lautner Shares How He’s Been Her “Saving Grace” During Pregnancy 

Taylor Lautner’s Wife Tay Lautner Shares How He’s Been Her “Saving Grace” During Pregnancy 

Taking part in the social media challenge “show your childhood crush and the person you ended up with,” Tay made a loca confession about her Twilight allegiance in the infamous Edward vs. Jacob debate. Her Instagram clip showed two snaps of Robert Pattinson as the brooding Cullen vampire before changing to a photo of Taylor as his werewolf…

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‘Cape Fear’ star Javier Bardem knows you might be actually rooting for his Max Cady: “That’s the fun part,” says Javier Bardem

‘Cape Fear’ star Javier Bardem knows you might be actually rooting for his Max Cady: “That’s the fun part,” says Javier Bardem

The most terrifying part of Apple TV‘s new Cape Fear series is that there are moments when you might find yourself almost rooting for Max Cady (Javier Bardem) — the iconic villain dead-set on enacting revenge on the person he blames for putting him behind bars —  instead of the well-to-do family he’s targeting. “There…

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A Mesmerizing Javier Bardem Saves ‘Cape Fear’ From Streaming Bloat

A Mesmerizing Javier Bardem Saves ‘Cape Fear’ From Streaming Bloat

This version, whose first two episodes are now streaming, with subsequent installments dropping on Fridays, does branch out in some timely and provocative new directions. But its excessive length—and specifically the amount of unnecessary explanation and repetition stuffed in to fill that runtime—kills much of the suspense. The mix of innovation and bloat yields a…

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AI Is Already Shaping Who We Are

AI Is Already Shaping Who We Are

And yet, we are all hungry for exactly that understanding. We check our horoscopes. We take personality tests. We even take the Harry Potter sorting hat quiz, as if these evaluations could explain who we really are.  To be sure, this desire is not new. Psychologists have long known that people crave self-definition and that…

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