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The new movie Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, from André Øvredal and Guillermo del Toro, has kids of the ’80s and ’90s reminiscing about the terrifying source material. Written by Alvin Schwartz—and distinguished by Stephen Gammell’s gruesome illustrations—the original series of Scary Stories books (published in 1981, 1984, and 1991) were fervently swapped…

via What to Know About the Folklorist Behind Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark — TIME

This month marks 50 years since the first Woodstock Music and Art Fair at Max Yasgur‘s farm in Bethel, New York — that game-changing, free-for-all of a weekend that came to symbolize hippie culture. The festival was marked by organizational struggles, from issues with weather and accommodation to traffic that led to serious set delays.…

via Watch the 10 Most Memorable Performances at Woodstock — TIME

This month marks 50 years since the first Woodstock Music and Art Fair at Max Yasgur‘s farm in Bethel, New York — that game-changing, free-for-all of a weekend that came to symbolize hippie culture. The festival was marked by organizational struggles, from issues with weather and accommodation to traffic that led to serious set delays.…

via Watch the 10 Most Memorable Performances at Woodstock — TIME

Megan Thee Stallion doubles down on the so-called “Hot Girl Summer” with a new song of the same name, featuring Nicki Minaj. Meanwhile, Lana Del Rey tries her hand at protest music with “Looking for America” — a gentle lullaby that tries to reckon with recent gun violence. Bon Iver welcomes autumn in the cryptic…

via The 5 Best Songs of the Week, From Megan Thee Stallion to Lana Del Rey — TIME

You may not have heard of Kobalt before, but you probably engage with the music it oversees every day, if not almost every hour. Combining a technology platform to better track ownership rights and royalties of songs with a new approach to representing musicians in their careers, Kobalt has risen from the ashes of the…

via How a Swedish saxophonist built Kobalt, the world’s next music unicorn — TechCrunch

Hundreds of employees at seven worksites across Mississippi were swept up Wednesday in the largest immigration raid in at least a decade. Their employers are yet to be charged. They might never be. They typically aren’t. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 680 people but has released just over 300 of them since then. Those…

via Hundreds of Their Workers Were Arrested In Mississippi ICE Raids, But No Employers Have Been Charged Yet — TIME

If you can’t trust your bank, government or your medical provider to protect your data, what makes you think students are any safer? Turns out, according to one student security researcher, they’re not. Eighteen-year-old Bill Demirkapi, a recent high school graduate in Boston, Massachusetts, spent much of his latter school years with an eye on…

via How safe are school records? Not very, says student security researcher — TechCrunch