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Whether midcentury Miami or Sinatra’s Vegas, grungy ‘90s Manhattan or glossy ’70s midtown, the coolest hot spots seem to be borrowing from previous decades. By Jason Diamond May 31, 2022 Harold M. Lambert/Getty Images Maybe I started to notice it when I saw a 20-something at a party yell, “I love this fucking song” when

Obi-Wan star Moses Ingram is the latest Star Wars actor to suffer online attacks. By Grant Rindner May 31, 2022 Moses Ingram in Obi-Wan Kenobi.Courtesy of Disney+ via Everett Collection. Obi-Wan Kenobi has gotten pretty good reviews so far, but racist messages fans sent to Moses Ingram, who plays one of the bad guys in

Gelman learned karate to turn his gonzo journalist Murray Bauman into an action hero. By Brian Tallerico May 31, 2022 Brett Gelman in Stranger Things, 2022.Courtesy of Netflix Brett Gelman is ready for this Stranger Things 4 moment. Whether it’s turning his scene-stealing character Murray Bauman into his own brand of action hero, or channeling

How the funniest part of last night’s Barry episode came together. By Gabriella Paiella May 30, 2022 Tom Allen as Mitch, inside Beignets by Mitch.Merrick Morton/HBO There’s this running bit on Sunday night’s episode of Barry. At various points, each of the main characters finds themselves at a place called Beignets by Mitch, pouring their

The new series following Ewan McGregor’s beloved take on the character is the best prospect the franchise has had in some time. By Zack Handlen May 27, 2022 Photograph: Everett Collection; Collage: Gabe Conte Obi-Wan Kenobi might be the show you’re looking for. Here’s a spoiler for the upcoming Disney+ miniseries Obi-Wan Kenobi: Obi-Wan, played

The Fader x Hulu doc’s director as well as X’s mother Cleopatra Bernard on how they made a film true to all facets of the troubled artist’s life. By Dan Hyman May 27, 2022 XXXTentacion was many things. An emotive singer and rapper — equal-parts sensitive and vicious. A deeply troubled young man — diagnosed

This is the first time the rapper has discussed the video since it hit the internet in February. By Grant Rindner May 27, 2022 Isaiah Rashad performs during Weekend 2, Day 2 of the 2022 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 23, 2022 in Indio, California.Courtesy of Scott Dudelson via Getty Images TDE

The veteran actor, most famous for Goodfellas, passed away on May 26. By Paul Thompson May 27, 2022 Photographs: Everett Collection, Getty Images; Collage: Gabe Conte About 15 minutes into Goodfellas, you get the full reveal, from the asphalt up: the alligator shoes, the suit that surely fell off the back of a truck, the

The Bob’s Burgers Movie, out this weekend, is like a super-sized episode that retains the series’ winning charms. By Keith Phipps May 27, 2022 The voices of John Roberts, H. Jon Benjamin, Dan Mintz, Kristen Schaal, Eugene Mirman in The Bob’s Burgers MovieCourtesy of Walt Disney Co via Everett Collection It’s fitting that The Bob’s

Halsey, FKA Twigs, and Florence Welch have been vocal about TikTok marketing strategies getting in the way of releasing their art. By Grant Rindner May 25, 2022 Halsey arrives at the 2022 iHeartRadio music awards at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on March 22, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.Courtesy of Emma McIntyre via Getty Images.

Copyright law in the age of Web3. By Eileen Cartter May 25, 2022 Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images Pilot season is rough for everyone, especially when you are Seth Green’s Bored Ape Yacht Club #8398, which was slated to star in a series the actor was developing—until #8398 was “kidnapped” in a phishing scheme that cost Green

22 burning questions—and answers!—about the insanely lucrative, uniquely confusing, distressingly scammy, and quite possibly revolutionary world of non-fungible tokens. By Duncan Cooper and Jessica Klein May 26, 2022 1. So what is an NFT, anyway? In essence, an NFT, or non-fungible token, is just a record that someone owns something. That record lives on the

The “Shut Up” rapper is almost twenty episodes into his cooking show “I Got My Pots,” which features appearances from Rick Ross, Trina, Cee-Lo and more. By Grant Rindner May 27, 2022 Trick Daddy in I Got My Pots.Courtesy of YouTube. It’s been an up-and-down decade for Trick Daddy, one of the defining southern rap

The French period-piece film is haunting, visceral, and in today’s political context, a warning. By Callie Beusman May 27, 2022 Fabrizio Rongione and Anamaria Vartolomei in Happening.Courtesy of Wild Bunch via Everett Collection In Happening, a haunting, visceral drama directed by Audrey Diwan, a 23-year-old student, Anne, discovers she is pregnant. It’s the early 1960s,

A viral supercut of all the times Rogan said the word prompted the uproar. By Grant Rindner February 7, 2022 Joe Rogan performs during his appearance at The Ice House Comedy Club on April 17, 2019 in Pasadena, California.Courtesy of Michael S. Schwartz / Getty Images. Last week, it seemed like the drama surrounding Joe

For nearly two decades, the Gen X author has written about culture and music through a personal lens. In his new book The Nineties, he attempts to resist nostalgia while chronicling and analyzing what he thinks might be “the last decade.” By Will Leitch February 7, 2022 You know who these people are. (Photo by

Revisit the Atlanta rapper’s surprisingly rich back catalog on the occasion of his new album, Dope Don’t Sell Itself. By Grant Rindner February 4, 2022 Photograph courtesy Getty Images; Collage by Gabe Conte You could ask 20 rap fans what their favorite 2 Chainz lyric is, and chances are you’d get 20 different answers. Some

The internet darling has a new song with A$AP Rocky out today, and his long-awaited third album Ethereal out next week. By John Norris February 4, 2022 $NOT.Courtesy of Sam Cones. For a few days in early December, $NOT came home again. The rapper and singer has been one of hip-hop’s most exciting, charismatic and

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young reunite one more time, while Daniel Ek says Spotify is a platform, not a publisher.  By Grant Rindner February 3, 2022 Stills, Crosby, Nash and Young in 1974, before they all hated each other. Bettmann There continue to be ripple effects from Neil Young’s decision to leave Spotify over the streaming