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All images: CBS The prevailing question about Star Trek: Discovery is “Is it good enough?” Is it good enough to justify all the delays? Is it good enough to get over the fact that CBS embargoed all reviews until now? Is it good enough to justify paying $5.99 ($9.99 without commercials) a month? And, based…
This week on Dear Television: After a brief hiatus to do some wall repairs, Dear TV is back at it. Rather than recap one show, however, we’ll be checking in regularly with a variety of shows and topics throughout the fall. First up is Aaron Bady and Sarah Mesle on the triumphant return of Star Trek with the new Discovery series on…
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51 years ago, after a failed pilot and thanks to the good will of comedic legend and astute producer Lucille Ball, Star Trek: The Original Series premiered. At its best, The Original Series married hard science fiction, expansive mythology, a sincere interest in diversity, blistering intelligence, and belief in the good of humanity. I’m not sure creator Gene Roddenberry…
Ev Williams is in New York to have meetings. He’s meeting with writers to discuss producing original content for his Medium platform; he’s meeting with editors about potential work with the company; and he’s meeting with journalists like me to try and describe just what Medium is now. After the company’s latest strategy shift away…
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Detroit-based hip hop duo and their fans are pushing back against 2011 gang classification by taking to the streets of Washington, D.C. On Saturday, Insane Clown Posse duo Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope will lead members of their devoted fan base, known as Juggalos, in a march on Washington denouncing the FBI for labeling their…
A pro-President Trump rally that has declared itself the “Woodstock for the silent majority” and “Mother of All Rallies (M.O.A.R)” will take place on the same day as the Juggalo March on Washington. Juggalos, the name for fans of the Insane Clown Posse rap group and related musicians, are often easily identified by their cartoonish black-and-white…
Louise Linton, the wife of Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, carried an Hermès Birkin bag worth roughly $10,000 on her arm in the ill-fated Instagram post that got her slammed for “flashing her wealth” — and then lecturing a critic about her “sacrifices.” But status symbols don’t have to cost as much as a luxury purse….
Illustration by Jim Cooke/Deadspin/GMG Earlier this week Deadspin published a story about how SB Nation team sites’ traffic accounts for the vast majority of the network’s total traffic, even though the people who staff these sites are primarily paid low monthly stipends or nothing at all. The story detailed, among other things, how a Vox…