Times Square

Image copyrightNick Leonard Far up South Las Vegas Boulevard, past the glitzy resorts and mega-casinos of the city's strip, you will find an unassuming brick building with a boarded-up fire door at the front. On the surface, it looks like any of the many pa…

Richmonds newest monument got a one-of-a-kind unveiling in New Yorks Times Square on Friday. Kehinde Wiley, along with a group of speakers, unveiled his massive monument, called Rumors of War, to a crowd of cheering onlookers during an event livestreamed onl…

NEW YORK The old-fashioned, ceremonial unveiling of a statue is mostly extinct as a cultural spectacle. New art works are generally introduced quietly, amid white wine, canapés and polite chatter at exhibition openings. Now and then, perhaps a new museum may …

Can you imagine how Manhattan might smell if a 500-foot-tall version of Post Malone showed up and plunked his ass down in the middle of Times Square? The video for the new song “Writing On The Wall” raises fascinating philosophical questions like this. “Writ…

For quite a long while now, latitude and longitude has been the way humankind has navigated the globe. This is a perfectly workable system, but it’s a little overwrought for daily use by the layperson. What3Words seeks to provide a simpler solution. The syst…

Oneof the durable clichés of film criticism is the observation that the city is like another character in the movie. While I dont have the data to prove it, my strong suspicion is that this has been said more about New York than any other city. But its not q…

Last month, Ecuador-born, Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Maria Usbeck released her sophomore album Envejeciendo, a collection of eight lovely, aqueous synth-pop meditations on the process of aging. And today, she came by our New York office in Times Square …

Every week, we share the shortcuts, workspaces, and productivity tips of our favorite experts. This week, were going behind the scenes at Lifehacker. Im Joel Kahn, and this is how I work. Location: New York CityCurrent gig: Senior Video ProducerCurrent compu…

Marketers looking to improve the inclusivity of their campaigns have a new tooland new reasons to use it. On Monday, the Association of National Advertisers released the Cultural Insights Impact Measure, a metric that gauges the cultural relevance of an ad an…

Shooting out on location in a busy environment like New York City can be extremely difficult. When dealing with police, public safety, traffic, and pedestrians, it can often be near impossible to create the look you want without sacrificing your lighting. The…