Ticketmaster’s maligned fees and customer service issues are again under the microscope. Will American music fans ever see anything better? It was the …
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Sunday Reads for December 18, 2022
Concert-goers like me will wince as they read about the business model that made Ticketmaster a juggernaut. (Fees average 28% of a ticket’s face value but can go as high as 48%!) Next, one of my favorite Substack writers, Hunter Harris, discusses the World Cup in my terms: with another fun writer and lots of pop culture references. More seriously, Alzheimer’s endures as one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of modern medicine, but there's new thinking about its causes.
This Week's Picks
Hung Up x Impersonal Foul returns The Friday Post will be arriving Saturday morning this week, because I’ve been traveling for work and nothing puts …
After decades in the shadow of the reigning model for Alzheimer’s disease, alternative explanations are finally getting the attention they …
Julian Morein was sitting in the back room of a Hillary Clinton campaign office when he realized that Donald Trump was going to win the 2016 …
AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures. If you're one of the billions of people who have posted …
For consumers, passwords are a relatively recent phenomenon. It wasn’t until the internet and the rise of online commerce and security that we’ve …
Every style, every era, happening all at once. How did we get here, and at what cost? For more end of year essays and analysis on VICE, check out 2022 in Review. If you looked around today on any high street in Britain – or on social media – you might find it difficult to place which decade we’re in. …
We live in undeniably ugly times. Architecture, industrial design, cinematography, probiotic soda branding — many of the defining features of the …
Keeping sounds, stories, and cultural memory alive through years of conflict. Mark Gergis has had what he calls an “obsessive” love of music since he …
Happy Friday, readers! It’s the most wonderful time of the year: the time for Best of the Year book lists! While most professional outlets focus on …
