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The highlight of last year’s World Series was the offensive explosion of Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Randy Arozarena. The mostly unknown outfielder had only played 42 games in his career until he began launching home runs with Ruth-ian frequency, smashing 10 in the postseason and three in the World Series. The thrill of his incredible

Do you feel like there’s any lessons we can take away from the film in terms of our approach to the pandemic? [Laughs] Is there a lesson? Be careful of who you trust! Or you’ll catch this disease! It’s not a real positive message. It feels like a lot of your work is still prescient.

If you’ve spent any time since Wednesday doomscrolling through Twitter or punishing yourself with CNN footage, you’ve seen the disastrous confrontations and disturbingly friendly-looking interactions between the Capitol rioters and law enforcement. So far, the storming of the Capitol has resulted in 5 deaths, including one officer. What the hell happened? To find out, GQ

Like the Odeon, dim sum in Queens, and the Prospect Park lawn, Fran Lebowitz is a New Yorker’s New York fixture and a cognoscenti touchpoint to a bygone era. Infamously cellphone-free and laptop-less, Lebowitz has nonetheless become more and more of a cult celebrity—in part due to her irascible wit on everything from politics to

This week, a band of rowdy, Glock-toting, Trump-worshiping insurrectionists descended on the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. in an attempt to stop the confirmation of Joe Biden’s presidential nomination. The scenes from the invasion itself have already been memed into oblivion. But as other accounts from people in the area trickled out, the picture of

Come Election Day, he doesn’t win. So all these people go, “Wait, it can’t be. How could Trump possibly lose an election that everyone I know knew he was going to win?” I could just see a certain reality catching up with [them], and it would have to be on that day [of the certification].

Society’s most loathsome ideas are sometimes best confronted by the unlikeliest of cultural critics. Just look at Viagra Boys, a Stockholm-based punk-rock outfit whose very name is a parody of hypermasculinity and raging alpha males’ frequent inability to perform. But their musical performances—on record and especially onstage—are nothing if not potent. The spiritual descendants of

New Jersey Congressman Andy Kim spent yesterday locked down in his office, trying to carry on with his day while making sense of the assault on the Capitol. After the dust settled and he cast his vote, he made his way through the building cleaning up debris and reflecting on the day’s events. Here’s how

After a long game of chicken with the coronavirus, Christopher Nolan’s Tenet finally hit US theaters in August. You probably didn’t see it then. On December 15th, it hit on demand services, but if you watched it then, you probably didn’t understand it. And even if you rewatched it, which you absolutely have to do

The first rule about this robe is you always talk about this robe. 8. Rihanna Rihanna in New York, May 27, 2016. Star Max / Getty Images Leave it to Rihanna to invent the street style bathrobe. 7. Robert De Niro as Ace Rothstein in Casino Robert De Niro in Casino, 1995. Courtesy of  Universal

This afternoon, as Congress counted electoral votes to confirm Joe Biden’s victory, a mob of Trump supporters who had traveled to Washington at the behest of the President attacked police outside the Capitol and forced their way inside the building. Senators and members of Congress were locked inside their respective chambers; security escorted Vice-President Mike

These days, when you’re Morgan Wallen, things tend to go your way. Albums set records before they’re even released. Your throwback, semi-scuzzy Southern style – mullet and cutoff flannel tee – is instantly adopted by your fans. Even national controversy ends with a laugh and a wink. Take for example, how last fall the 27-year-old

On the same song, he imagines his grave––“either unmarked or engraved, hey, who’s to say?”––and muses about going “back where my brother went.” Dumile’s last verse on the album is a tear-jerking remembrance of the prayers and expensive leather-goods purchases the pair made together. “I keep a flick of you with the machete sword in

Tackling a subject head-on can backfire. Directed by Craig Zobel (Compliance) from a script by Damon Lindelof and Nick Cuse, The Hunt pits liberal elites against conservative “deplorables.” Maybe the unluckiest movie of the past few years, it opened just as the pandemic shut down theaters after being pushed from its fall 2019 release date

Judging by the number of readers who came through, all the fathers, brothers, boyfriends, buddies and more received some solid presents this year. Courtesy of Jordan / Gabe Conte By Yang-Yi Goh, Sam Schube From the stone-cold classic to the low-key underrated to the…well, less-than-GOAT, we ranked the greatest basketball sneaker line in history. Shirt,

I guess we’re catching them a little older than four, but in similar ways, trying to timestamp some of the emotions they have at that age. I’d love to interview a four year old, see how they’re thinking and feeling, and then interview a 94 year old. And we as an audience and me as

Nick Robinson is trying to answer a question until he loses his train of thought. “I might need to get some more coffee,” he says, before bursting out into laughter. It’s a busy time for the fast-rising actor, who’s been on a constant upward trajectory since appearing in a long-running sitcom (Melissa & Joey) and

Last week, Swae Lee lost a Louis Vuitton bag at LAX. Worse, the bag contained a hard drive of Swae’s music, so he offered a $20,000 reward. Then things took a crazy turn: an Instagram account with the handle @swaeleeharddrive surfaced, a skeptical Swae invited the user to go live on Instagram, and the account

“Once he got on set, I was so blown away by what a funny and skilled and precise comic actor he is,” Wigfield said. “I kept texting other showrunners, like, ‘Mario Lopez is Will Ferrell.’” It’s hard not to be thoroughly charmed by Lopez, which of course is his trade — the commensurate host, at