September 8, 2013 - 11:00pm
Thousands of messages posted on the Internet every day in China get censored. Until now, little has been known about how the Chinese censorship machine works — except that it is comprehensive. "It probably is the largest effort ever to selectively censor human expression," says Harvard University social scientist Gary...
September 8, 2013 - 11:00pm
It's 8 a.m. on a recent day at Forward Operating Base Nolay, a small Marine outpost in Taliban-infested Sangin District of southern Afghanistan's Helmand province. The Marines are in the process of caffeinating and preparing for the day. Suddenly, explosions and gunfire ring out. The Marines don't run for their...
September 8, 2013 - 8:48pm
An unidentified man fell to his death Sunday during the San Francisco 49ers' home opener at Candlestick Park. He reportedly fell from the Jamestown walkway , which goes around the outside of the San Francisco area stadium. Witnesses say the man appeared to be intoxicated. According to The Associated Press,...
September 8, 2013 - 6:00pm
There's an element of Gregory Porter's singing that feels like a welcome throwback, though he doesn't spell it out precisely. It's in the way he leans heavily into and erupts "Hey!" without fear of coming up short. It's in his coat-and-tie handling of an audience, well-mannered but without quaint mannerisms...
September 8, 2013 - 6:00pm
San Fermin is the brainchild of a Brooklyn songwriter and pianist named Ellis Ludwig-Leone, but he's no frontman: Three singers share lead-vocal duties on the chamber-pop band's self-titled debut, and he's not one of them. Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig also sing in Lucius , but they don't harmonize so...
September 8, 2013 - 6:00pm
The new documentary Muscle Shoals recalls how interracial harmony in tumultuous times made possible a new kind of music. Leading African-American artists traveled to North Alabama — not exactly a place they thought they'd be welcome in the civil rights era — to jam with an all-white crew of session...
September 8, 2013 - 6:00pm
Lou Barlow has been reuniting with old bandmates left and right in the last decade or so, even as his personal life has broken apart. In 2005, the rock veteran rejoined Dinosaur Jr. , having long since moved past the acrimony surrounding his departure, and he's now back with Sebadoh...
September 8, 2013 - 5:30pm
Many members of the L.A. quintet Grouplove have had their bodies emblazoned with "Grouplove" tattoos, so they're nothing if not committed to the project. That full-bore, all-in approach comes through in their songs, too: Like Grouplove's ingratiating debut (2011's Never Trust a Happy Song ), the new Spreading Rumours positively...
September 8, 2013 - 2:43pm
Top-seeded Serena Williams overcame the wind and more than a dozen unforced errors Sunday to defeat No. 2 Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, in the U.S. Open women's singles championship match 7-5, 6-7(6), 6-1. The win is Williams' fifth career U.S. Open victory and 17th Grand Slam singles title, the sixth-most...
September 8, 2013 - 10:38am
For Prince Andrew, a stroll in the garden of Buckingham Palace turned into a confrontation with police, after officers ordered the prince to show ID. Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, is the son of Queen Elizabeth II; Buckingham is her most famous residence. "We are grateful to the duke...
