That Jeff Lebowski was one cool dude. Aside from the fact that he actually referred to himself as “The Dude,” the iconic character from The Big Lebowski just had something about him–a kind of pure ...

Commentary: AI image and video generation took over 2025. We need some big changes to avoid an AI slop-filled future in 2026.

There’s been a giant sucking sound the last few years. You’ve probably heard it. It’s the sound of social media startups vacuuming up the world’s venture capital and media mindshare. But what about ...

"When did Facebook become so uncool?" CNN asked the other day. And after an entertaining intro, the author John D. Sutter took some guesses: Maybe it was when users realized how much data Facebook was ...

If filmmaker Cameron Crowe's career arc sounds like a Hollywood story, that's because it is one. Crowe's 2000 Oscar-winning film Almost Famous is based on his own teen years; he was 15 years old in ...

Millennials and centennials have something in common: they both have unlikely tastes for traditionally uncool footwear. According to a recent report executed by Goldman Sachs and Teen Vogue, ...

I’ve never really been cool, and this fact has always bugged me. I’m not telling you this to sound charming or self-deprecating—it’s just the truth. One Monday in third grade, Maggie and Hilary, two ...

It feels weird to me to think about all of the things we thought were uncool in the ‘90s — especially because so much of the stuff that we did think was cool back then now seems unbelievably lame. I ...

In the world of high-tech, gadgets getting tagged as “uncool” can be a death sentence for a product. That’s why Samsung’s win over Apple in a UK court on Monday is being viewed as a defeat by some ...

The oldest rule in the book when it comes to cool: Never care whether people think you are cool. So, why do we care so much, Canada? We are not alone in the world when it comes to wondering about our ...

When Josh Pourgol closed UNCOOL Burgers–a vegan-friendly burger joint located in Larchmont Village–in late 2021 after being open for a little less than a year, it was for a simple reason: he wanted to ...