Life is filled with surprises, like the Netherlands tightening its marijuana laws even as we relax ours in the States. What’s next — freedom of religion? Geez. News about that, plus things on wheels (bikes, exploding cars) and people who run really fast, in this week’s Briefings. It’s a big and complicated world. We’re at [...]
Briefings: Snooker, Fishing, Reading, Cooking, and the James Beard Awards
In a perfect world we’d spend every week playing snooker, fishing, drinking cocktails, reading children’s books, and eating a meal with mom. We’re allowed approximately two of these weeks in America. Make the most of them. It’s a big and complicated world. We’re at tips [at] gearpatrol.com if you think there’s something we should know [...]
Briefings: Patagonia, NBA Analytics, Wine Crime, and Recipes for Spring
This week we’re reporting from Edinburgh, UK, and seeing things through the traveler’s lens (more on Edinburgh in the coming weeks). In that spirit, this week’s picks are all about seeing familiar things from a different perspective. We’ve also got two recipes that celebrate the changing of the seasons, which is exactly what happened this [...]
Briefings: The Great GoogaMooga, Optimism, Kevin Costner, Alabama Shakes, and Damsels in Distress
Sometimes it feels like there’s this prevailing attitude of cool indifference, not taking things too seriously, blase raised to the nth power. We’re glad to see signs of change. For one thing, Kevin Costner had a good conversation with Esquire about shoving people against fences and not being able to afford chocolate milk. For another, [...]
Briefings: Digital Film, Sea Slugs, CGI Tupac, The Italian Mob, and Stuttering
Most of the time we agree with Dylan: You better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone, for the times they are a-changin’. But even as we embrace new technology all the time, there seems to be a broad cultural clinginess to nostalgia. Clinging to the old way like an abalone clings to the [...]
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Briefings: Oak Ridge, Smokeable Books, Hormone Therapy, Saveur’s Las Vegas, and an App for Local Events
This week is mainly about things we like to know about but are fairly comfortable observing from afar: a formerly secret town in eastern Tennessee where the government enriched uranium; Snoop Dogg’s new book/package of rolling papers; and new developments in the world of hormone replacement therapy, which, well, we’re glad to know it’s there… [...]
Briefings: Magic at the Masters, The Perfect Human, A Diamond Hoax, Airbnb of Bicycles, and The End of Helium
If you’ve only got time for one significant distraction today, use it wisely. Consider that it’s the beginning of spring and warm outside in many parts of these here United States. The perfect day to ride some trails or drink a few brewskies al fresco. If you’re still with us, though, you’ve got to watch [...]
Briefings: Skullware, Cold Patrol, Cashing Out, Cosmopolis: Cronenberg Makes DeLillo, and Trojans
One way to look at this week’s serving of culture is by taking a second to enumerate the things we chose not to write about: a swimsuit video with Candice Swanepoel, Justice Antonin Scalia on broccoli, The Hunger Games, and Geraldo Rivera’s mustache. Make of it what you will. We’re at tips [at] gearpatrol.com if [...]
Briefings: The SAT, Don Johnson vs. Atlantic City, 110 Best DIY Tips, Earth + Stars, and Conversation
As spring has commenced, we thought we’d honor the new season, warm weather in New York, cherry blossoms in DC, and people generally wearing a lot less clothing by sharing some stories that offer a fresh look at topics we may already know a thing or two about. It’s a big and complicated world. We’re [...]
Briefings: The Iditarod Vicariously, Obama’s Diet, March Madness for Books, Regression Analysis to Explain Mob Activity, and Straws Made Of Beef
Today being National Pi Day and Albert Einstein’s birthday, fortuitously, we’re contributing our part with another round-up of the week’s most important cultural events. Chief among them: meat straws. But also the greatest race on earth, a new study about the origins of the Sicilian mafia, and a single elimination tournament for books. It’s a [...]
Briefings: Your Sugar Daddy Is In, US Open Snowboarding Turns 30, How to Rig an Election, Should We Go to College, and Mitt Romney Channeling Davy Crockett
It’s hard to argue that the most important things going on in the world this week have nothing to do with baby sloths and robotic cheetahs, but if we can have your ear for just a second… no? Come on. Email us at tips [at] gearpatrol.com if you think there’s something we should know about.
Briefings: Kickstarter Cash, Falling Anchors, Paris Review Files, The Cranberries, and a Bar with Serious Tools
It’s Week 2 of our more cultivated Briefings, and we hope we’re giving you some cool stuff to talk about, even if you’re just muttering to yourself at the office. This week we’re going to shield our eyes against the political race, talking instead about free money, errant anchors, lit mags, and nostalgia. Email us [...]
Briefings: Firefall at Yosemite National Park, the First PGA Academy, Mind Altering Substances, Fukuyama on the Future, and the Comedy of Key & Peele
Editor’s Note: Building on the growing popularity of Briefings, we’ve decided to expand our link coverage with a weekly dose of what’s happening out there in the world of man, beyond the world of gear. More than a link drop, less than a TPS Report, look forward to 3-5 doses of culture with a spoonful [...]
