In February, WNYC, KPC, and WAMU bought Gothamist's assets, and Chance bought Chicagoist from them. He even sings about it in one of his new songs, "I Might Need Security": "I bought the Chicagoist just to run you racist bitches outta business."
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A bit of cussing and sex chatter is a standard, arguably even essential component of most people’s teenage years, and many kids first start to wrap their heads around the concept via the remove of movies and TV. In no small way, that’s the moral of such stories erring on the side of the developmenta…
Now, to be upfront, I love Ariana and Pete's love. They're adorable and romantically reckless and a wonderful light in this trash fire world. But if we're being real, Cazzie is also a hero of this Hollywood tale.
It’s fair to say the ten-year-old company’s metamorphic growth has been fueled primarily by young women looking to share the kind of stories that tend to be shut out of mainstream publishing. Asked why the site gets more traction with women than men, Wattpad executives point out that unlike other so…
Watching Bo Burnham’s debut feature, "Eighth Grade," you might realize more vividly than ever what all great teenage coming-of-age stories have in common: unbearable levels of anxiety.
Much has been written about the Western obsession with pretty, white, dead girls—prom queens, pageant girls, sorority sisters. They dominate our television screens and bestseller lists and our news outlets, writers and reporters knowing we’ll always click on the girl with a once promising future fou…
Lucy: Great class, Doctor D! Even better than the one you did with interpretive dance. J.D.: Thanks, Lucy. I like to call it 'teacher-tainment.'
There is a moment in “Can’t Handle This,” Bo Burnham’s Kanye West–inspired closer to his last special, 2016’s Make Happy, where he sings through Auto-Tune, “I can sit here and sing like my biggest problems are Pringles cans and burritos, but the truth is, my biggest problem’s you.” At that moment, t…
Welp. Okay then! Drake is officially no longer “hiding a child.” On his new album Scorpion, released at midnight on Friday, Drake confirmed that he does in fact have a son — just like Pusha-T said he did.
Part of Queer Eye’s sheer enjoyability comes from its absolute lack of guile and surplus of earnestness: the guys genuinely want to help their subjects, and for a lot of men who aren’t used to thinking about their clothes, fashion can be overwhelming. The French tuck is so simple that anyone can rem…
Can writers’ rooms continue to justify creativity in the name of hashing out “uncensored,” hackneyed, misogynistic personal anecdotes? And can they justify driving away people who stand to bring more diversity and a wider range of experience to writer’s rooms? One of the fallacies highlighted by #Me…
It's my job to take them to dinner at 80 miles an hour. It's my job to stop a mile from the restaurant so they can have five pounds of crab legs and three bottles of beer apiece and then go get prime rib. It's my job to go hunting so they can fire off their guns an inch from my ear and laugh when I…
— Jason Grote, Matthew Weiner, Ken Cosgrove, Aaron Staton, imdb.com
Bears repeating: Creativity that satisfies & affirms your world view is Entertainment. Creativity that challenges & disrupts your world view is Art.
We’ve been living in a world run by Afflecks for so long, will we even know ourselves when they’re gone?
Everything you’re saying sounds 100 percent like cultural brainwashing.
I can watch a Sunday-to-Monday night of The Bachelor and it’s like cotton candy. You eat it. It’s delicious. It disappears. Where did that go? I can’t believe I watched four hours of it.
Remind yourself that entertainment is not reality. If you replace reality with entertainment, you will become unreal.
I’m not really very keen to put on much of a theatrical show in terms of big sets and fireworks and elephants. Of course that doesn’t mean that I won’t go back on my word because that’s part and parcel of what I do for you. Part of my entertaining factor is lying to you.
We need to be realistic about the ways in which media carries narrative and shapes our culture. About the impact that the works we consume and create have on marginalized people, that we listen to marginalized people when they talk about this rather than get defensive and argue, that we commit to ge…
There is no “apolitical” work; there is only work that reflects the world view of cultural privilege back to those with cultural privilege, who see that as “normal” and unmarked by any particular political point of view. Those without that privilege hear the political messaging loud and clear.