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Image: Netflix There is a lengthy Q&A in the New York Times with the cast of Arrested Development ahead of the show’s fifth season premiering at the end of May. Because the show still includes Jeffrey Tambor, recently fired from Transparent after sexual harassment allegations, the conversation eventually turns to Tambor’s behavior on the set…
Image: via Getty. “A smart, sweet, quiet boy,” is how the family of Dimitrios Pagourtzis described him shortly after the 17-year-old killed 10 classmates and injured 13 more at Santa Fe High School in Texas. The family’s insistence that their son is a sweet, quiet boy seemed oblivious to the abundance of evidence otherwise but,…
Pascal Parrot / Sygma / Sygma / Getty To mourn Philip Roth is also to mourn a particular kind of literary celebrity. If you Google the phrase literary lion, here is one of the first definitions that will be returned to you for the effort: “Noun: a noted author who has reached celebrity status.” And,…
Players from the Miami Dolphins protest during the national anthem before an NFL game against the Carolina Panthers, November 13, 2017. (AP Photo / Bob Leverone) In what has to rank among the worst ideas in the history of the National Football League—alongside decisions to cover up concussion research and ignore the issue of violence…
There’s always a debate raging in the world of animation, whether it’s the presence of women in the writers room or a cartoon geek’s constitutional right to Szechuan sauce (thanks to the rather rowdy Rick and Morty fandom), but this weekend saw fandom butting heads over a rare topic: college. Instigated by ThunderCats Roar, the…
Never say fans can’t change the world; or at the very least, change the internet. Donald Glover’s biggest fans have staged a mass takeover of a popular Donald Trump subreddit, simply referred to as The Donald. Note this isn’t the same subreddit as the massively popular, extremely problematic and notorious forum, The_Donald. Unlike The_Donald, which…
Backing away from attempts at censorship, the National Park Service on Friday released a report charting the risks to national parks from sea level rise and storms. Drafts of the report obtained earlier this year by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting showed park service officials had deleted every mention of humans causing climate…
The New York Times published a story last week about the “high-fashion makeover” of Manhattan’s Canal Street, the main artery of Chinatown, that more or less gentrified Chinese people out of the narrative. Their voices were displaced with those of a founder of a “high-end” design firm, an owner of a fine jewelry label and…
If you were on Twitter on April 22, you might remember this article. “Sorry Not Sorry, My Parents Paid For My Coachella Trip,” boldly declared a post on the Odyssey, a popular publication that crowdsources articles from unpaid college students. The post reeked of privilege, with the purported author, Kaycie Allen of Syracuse University, writing…
Most Americans probably don’t know his name, but we sure do live in his world. Roger Ailes — who died a year ago this week — co-created Fox News and fostered the presidency of Donald Trump. His hugely successful media empire billed itself as “fair and balanced” even though it was, by design, a place…