Lauren Kirchner

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Bafflers! The big St. Patty’s Day headlines today are about all of the beer brands that have pulled out of city parades. In New York City, the organizers of the annual parade there banned “public expression of gay pride”—LGBT groups can march ...

Today is the first day of Asia Week, a massive art fair in New York City attracting Asian art dealers and buyers from all around the world. It follows shortly behind a string of art fairs in New York—the Art Dealers Association of America show, the Armory Show, the Independent ...

News Corp’s Wall Street Journal announced this week that it was launching a new “content division,” called “WSJ. Custom Studios.” As Capital New York relayed on Monday, the new service is being pitched as “an innovative, intelligent and flexible suite of capabilities ...

The effects of gentrification on Bay Area real estate and cost of living have been well documented. But what about the impact of big tech bucks on the overall culture? Can San Francisco afford to stay weird anymore? Last week, Kevin Roose wrote convincingly about the shifting ...

This morning on The Awl we saw these delightful snapshots from SXSW of Mashable’s wrecking-ball and requisite safety-waiver (“A selfie isn’t worth dying for,” wrote Gillian Lanyon). And now here’s another image worth highlighting, caught by Can’t Stop the Bleeding ...