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During their TCA (Television Critics Association) panel on Sunday, The CW made a surprise announcement. On top of renewing both “Arrow” and “The Flash,” Arrowverse producer Marc Guggenheim said DC heroine Vixen will be getting her own show in that universe. This is kind of a big deal. In case you don’t know who she…
What’s a comic book company to do when their audience is diversifying and clamoring for representation, but entrenched fans will have an aneurysm is you so much as change a hair on a beloved hero’s head? You pass the torch with alternate universe trickery, duh! Meet Tanya Spears, denizen of Earth-2 and intern at Starr…
The story of NPR’s new show Invisibilia starts with a butcher knife. Alix Spiegel and Lulu Miller were taking a walk during some downtime at the Third Coast Conference and, as sometimes is the case during meandering walks at audio storytelling confabs, the conversation turned to psychology and how people interpret their thoughts. It was…
“Doc stroked his chin and gazed off into space for a while. ‘You know how some people say they have a ‘gut feeling’? Well, Shasta Fay, what I have is dick feelings, and my dick feeling sez—’”— Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice (2009) “It is said that analyzing pleasure, or beauty, destroys it. That is the…
Neil Young’s “high resolution” PonoPlayer goes on sale for $400 today. You shouldn’t buy it. The recalcitrant rocker isn’t wrong for wanting to reclaim audio quality in the digital age, but in the service of that goal he’s peddling junk science, and supporting expensive gear and music files you don’t need. For the last few…
Aram Zucker-Scharff 4 hrs · So I saw Agent Carter’s first two episodes over the weekend and wow, it wants to be Fringe pretty badly huh? English (US) · Privacy · Terms · Cookies · Advertising · More Facebook © 2015 So I saw Agent Carter’s first two episodes over… – Aram…
Is anyone else sick of the jerk genius? You know the one. He’s unprofessional, lazy, selfish and rude, and even makes frequent sexist and racist remarks against the people around him, but that’s OK, because he’s a genius. He’s the best doctor/detective/scientist around, so everyone will put up with his jerkitude. Respect for others is the foolish pastime of…
“Good evening and welcome, you bunch of despicable, spoiled, minimally talented brats,” Tina Fey declared, and thus to 2015 Golden Globes were off to the races. In their opening monologue, Fey and Amy Poehler, her awards show partner-in-crime, treated viewers to a non-stop parade of zingers that included the year’s controversial topics (North Korea, Bill…
Chris Pratt in Guardians of the Galaxy; Chris Hemsworth in Thor: The Dark World; and Chris Evans in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos courtesy of Jay Maidment/Marvel Studios; Zade Rosenthal/Marvel Studios. The Movie Club is a weeklong conversation about the year in film. Read all the entries here. Oy. To echo…