There is a sense that comedians really got high off their own supply in the post–Daily Show landscape. The sentiment became We’re the truth-tellers, man. We speak truth to power! But has power really listened all that much? Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues to deport U.S. citizens, welfare and SNAP keep getting eroded, and …
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Photo: Lionsgate No, this isn’t an ill-advised Madame Web sequel, and J.Lo will not be in the Amazon with anybody’s mother, researching spiders, before dying. This is a comeback. Jennifer Lopez stars in the musical adaptation of the 20th-century classic Kiss of the Spider Woman, heading for theaters this October. Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and …
Photo: Art Maillett/Sony Music Archives/HBO If Robert De Niro wants to call Billy Joel the “poet laureate of New York,” then it’s probably safe to say that Billy Joel is the poet laureate of New York. De Niro was at the Beacon Theatre to introduce the Tribeca Film Festival’s opening-night screening of Susan Lacy …
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Photo: Apple TV+ Apple TV+’s new sports show Stick feels good. It feels good so, so hard, with effort and with focus. Stick’s good feeling is not just superficial, either. It lives on a structural, aesthetic, performative, and almost molecular level. It is a show about golf and the incredible good feeling that comes …
Photo: Disney+ The season finale of Doctor Who saw yet another version of the Doctor bidding adieu to time and space. After saving the world from heteronormativity (and then leaving his companion with a baby in an ending that some fans thought didn’t really fit the character), Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor regenerated into … …
Photo: Karwai Tang/WireImage After seven drama-filled summers, Paige DeSorbo is ready to enter a different season of her career. “I have a little life update for you: I’ve made the decision not to return to Summer House,” she wrote on her Instagram Story on June 5. “I’ll always be beyond grateful for the memories, …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images Nathan Fielder’s march toward aviation-policy reform continues. Following a CNN segment on May 29 in which the Federal Aviation Administration responded to the airline-safety issues Fielder raised in the second season of The Rehearsal with an unsatisfying comment Fielder labeled “dumb,” another aviation-governing body has weighed in. On June …
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Photo: Ben Symons/PEACOCK via Getty Images Love Island USA cast member Yulissa Escobar left the show on just day two, June 4, after fans dug up clips of her saying the N-word on a podcast. Her departure was announced 18 minutes into the season’s second episode. “Welcome back to Love Island USA,” narrator Iain …
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Photo: Warner Music Talking Heads never got around to shooting a music video for “Psycho Killer.” They had other priorities to worry about at the time, like burning down the competition at CBGB. Exactly 50 years after their live debut at the New York venue, though, they faced up to the facts and gave …
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Photo: Rick McGinnis In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon,” Edmund White wrote in City Boy. Five decades later, very little remains of the bare-knuckle, sexually overripe city that the author recalled in his memoirs and novels, but Ed still slept till noon. Whenever I sent him an email or a …
