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- The Times has a big report on how Ryan Adams has used his influence in music to lure in and emotionally torment women—they spoke to Mandy Moore, Phoebe Bridgers & a young woman who says her sexual texts with Adams while she was underage killed her dreams.
- Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard give a tour of their Brooklyn home, which is filled with tons of fireplaces.
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students reflect on the anniversary of the Parkland shootings.
- RIP The Billfold.
- Dane Cook is making another comedy comeback.
- Journalist Jake Malooley confronted Jill Abramson about plagiarizing him in her new book, and it got awkward quickly.
- Trump had a room-sized golf simulator installed in the White House which is really going to cut into all that important "Executive Time."
- In honor of February, truly the horniest month, here's a comprehensive list of The Cut's best writing on sex.
- Headline of the day: "Crystal Meth Is North Korea’s Trendiest Lunar New Year’s Gift."
- One solution to wanting to consume art by bad and problematic men? The Outline says do it in private.
- The New Yorker has a good read about a "targeted disinformation campaign" that serves as a warning of the dangers presented by social media dirty-tricks operations.
- Some more information about that upcoming Breaking Bad sequel: it will be feature-length movie revolving around Aaron Paul's Jesse Pinkman, and it will air on Netflix and then AMC.
- Councilman Rafael Espinal, who proposed NYC's plastic straw ban, is now turning his attention to a bill banning single-use plastic cutlery.
- Three places in NY (Scarsdale, Bronxville, Larchmont) and two in NJ (Short Hills, Rumson) are among the top 20 wealthiest places in the country.
- There is a magical town in Canada where residents live alongside polar bears.
- As someone who is only a little addicted to scratch-off tickets, this article about people hopefully addicted to them is quite alarming.
- And finally, what is WRONG with you???