25-years-of-1997
‘OK Computer’ Is How We Felt About the Internet Before It Devoured Us
Fearful of information overload, Thom Yorke conceived a record about technology and alienation. Twenty-five years later, its paranoid pre-Y2K vision hasn’t become dated, even though we all now begrudgingly live online
‘Gattaca’ Isn’t Simply Science-Fiction, It’s Middle School Science Curriculum
For many millennials, when it came to learning about genetic engineering, their teachers ditched the textbook and turned over the classroom to Ethan Hawke and Jude Law instead
1997 Was the Year That Gave Us Two Volcano Movies
Within the space of a couple months, Hollywood doubled up on finding ways to make lava lame — first with Pierce Brosnan and then again with Tommy Lee Jones
‘Can I Keep the Velvet Elvis?’: The Great Hillbilly Heist of 1997
Twenty-five years ago, a small group of rural North Carolinian amateur bank robbers pulled off the second-largest heist in American history. But few could have guessed how spectacularly the heist would go wrong after the criminals initially got away with it. We spoke with the inside man, David Ghantt, to get the real story
