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This year’s Academy Awards were necessarily different than years past and studded quite liberally with “firsts.” This is the first time the awards were hosted at a train station (and likely the last). It’s also the first time in a long time where the awards show felt manageable, small, and shabbier than years past.…

Sunday’s Academy Awards were anticlimactic. The show itself ended with a whimper, as its categories had been shuffled around so that Best Actor was the final award presented of the night (that final slot usually goes to Best Picture). Presumably, this shift was to send things out on a bittersweet note in memoriam,…

Musician St. Vincent is currently doing press for her new album Daddy’s Home, a swaggering, ’70s rock album that is sort of inspired, as she said in a profile earlier this year, by her father’s conviction and imprisonment for a stock manipulation scheme. But don’t ask her too much about that in an interview, in case…

I like to be in America, particularly in this very moment in time where we are able to watch the teaser trailer for the West Side Story reboot 10 times back to back, a feat not possible when the original musical came out in 1957. The new West Side will feature actual Puerto Rican actors playing Puerto Rican arrivals…

A lawyer for Rachel Powell, a participant in the harrowing Capitol riot on January 6 known as “the bullhorn lady,” says his client found inspiration for her now-famous mesh face mask from another famous mesh face mask wearer: Lana Del Rey.

As the nation reels from an endless stream of high-profile mass shootings, the majority conservative Supreme Court decided to hear a second amendment case that could potentially make it even easier to carry a gun in public.

I personally found Framing Britney Spears, the documentary charting the arc of Britney Spears’ conservatorship, to be intrusive, incurious, and often baffling. People close to Spears might disagree, as it opened the floodgates for them to spin their own redemptive tales to anyone ready to lap up any new details in the…

Alaska Republican and state Senator Lora Reinbold has made no secret of her disdain for public safety measures like wearing face masks, along with the covid-19 vaccine, which she recently described as “covid tyranny.” She’s even refused to wear a proper face mask while at work at the state capitol, a move that in…

In one of the opening scenes of Lifetime’s relentlessly self-aware 2016 reboot of its 1993 camp classic, Mother May I Sleep With Danger?, the film’s main character, a relentlessly culturally-aware college student, opines: “The first Twilight book was good because it made teen sex dangerous again.” The reboot attempts…

If the words “electronic music” conjure up images of bro EDM artists wearing cartoonish headpieces at music festivals, I implore you to watch Sisters with Transistors, a new documentary that explores a collection of women pioneers in the genre who expanded the possibilities of what music can be.

Say what you will about the absurdity of an awards show run like a movie set and staged inside a train station—nothing is more “huh” to me than talky-gab man Aaron Sorkin and ‘80s supermodel Paulina Porizkova hitting the red carpet or whatever as... each other’s dates?

No, Glenn Close did not take home a trophy tonight (though her Best Supporting Actress nomination for Hillbilly Elegy was her eighth). But she did win something and it was almost as good as Oscar: respect from music aficionados. During an interstitial game conducted by this year’s musical director Questlove and emceed…

After Daniel Kaluuya joked about his parents boning in his Oscars acceptance speech (“my mom, my dad, they had sex—it’s amazing!”) I figured it would be hard to top. But then Minari’s Youn Yuh-jung took the stage to accept her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

Holy god, I cannot express how thrilled I am to see fancy clothes again in the wild, slash on my television. Pomp, bureaucracy, and mediocrity of the Oscars system notwithstanding let’s just take a little visual joy where we can get it. Steven Soderbergh is a producer of tonight’s festivities and so there is a mild…

More than a dozen senators sent a letter to Joe Biden on Sunday urging the President to push for a number of expansions to Medicare as part of his American Families Plan, Politico reports.