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Taylor Swift gets booed at Super Bowl, with Trump in attendance
As expected, Taylor Swift made her way to New Orleans this weekend to attend the Super Bowl, seated in a...
“Puppy Bowl” ref Dan Schachner explains how “Puppy Bowl” wins the Big Game day
Dan Schachner meant it to be a joke—not his job—as the referee for "Puppy Bowl XXI" or any other faceoffs...
Reading my mom’s letters with underground comics icon Howard Cruse
We talked for an hour before he managed to shock me. “You know, Glenny, I had sex with your mother...
“Stay the f**k out of trans kids’ business”: Hayes pushes back against Maher’s anti-trans rhetoric
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes has one simple message for comedian Bill Maher: mind your business. Hayes was a guest on Maher's “Real Time"...
Pink pony up: Chappell Roan fires back at exec who laughed off call for artist healthcare
Grammy Award winner Chappell Roan fired back at a recent op-ed that trivialized her onstage plea for artists' healthcare, asking the...
The humble origins of the Super Bowl halftime show: It wasn’t always an elaborate spectacle
Every year, in that dismal stretch between winter and spring, we gather around our televisions—snacks in tow—to watch the Super...
“He was sooooo fresh”: Ye praises Hitler in series of antisemitic social media posts
Ye has apparently reached the "going door-to-door trying to shock people" stage of his career. The rapper formerly known as...
“What second chances mean”: Ke Huy Quan’s career love story as a sidekick no more
"Hey Dr. Jones, no time for love!" That line, uttered by irrepressible sidekick Short Round in 1984's "Indiana Jones at...
In “Severance,” everything means something—and the meticulous detail has revived the TV fan theory
Reddit is not a place I typically like to be, and lately, I’ve landed on a couple of important reasons...
“Apple Cider Vinegar” is bitter medicine that explains why so many of us fall for pretty frauds
We may never hit peak true crime, but when we struggle to tell one TV series’ fraudster apart from another,...
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