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"The real war is against male loneliness": Patel, Hegseth walk into a bar on "Saturday Night Live"
1+ hour, 1+ min ago (247+ words) Matt Damon and Aziz Ansari reprised their roles as Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and FBI Director Kash Patel in this week's episode of "Saturday Night Live." Damon, who last played the conservative justice in 2018, met up spontaneously with Colin…...
What makes an actress "mother"?
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (159+ words) (Macall Polay/20th Century Studios) Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly in "The Devil Wears Prada 2" Language is malleable, but it has to retain some meaning. With "mother," the etymology is just as important as its applied use. Without these considerations, no…...
The art Nazis stole is still waiting to go home
21+ hour, 47+ min ago (339+ words) A new permanent gallery at the Mus'e d'Orsay is drawing renewed attention to one of Europe's longest-running cultural and historical reckonings: what to do with thousands of artworks looted, displaced or sold under duress during the Nazi era that still…...
The resilience of uchche, bitter melon
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (860+ words) This is an excerpt from Madhushree Ghosh's upcoming book, "SAFAR: Finding Home, History, and Culture through Punjabi Food in the American West," (Bloomsbury) out in June 2026 In 2026, Didi still grows the best flowers, shady trees and chases squirrels away from…...
Elmo's X account shares "disgusting" messages after hack
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (15+ words) The X account of the "Sesame Street" character Elmo shared a string of "disgusting" posts...
How Ted Turner went from cinema's "butcher" to its champion
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (1053+ words) In 1986, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert dedicated a full episode of their syndicated series "At the Movies" to sounding the alarm about the industry's fascination with colorizing black-and-white films. "Hollywood's New Vandalism," they called it, placing the blame for this…...
Tiffany's "Pop Life" blends Beatles fandom with comfort food nostalgia
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (446+ words) Salon. com Tiffany's "Pop Life" blends Beatles fandom with comfort food nostalgia The '80s icon dishes with "Everything Fab Four" on her musical roots and her culinary second act Pop singing sensation Tiffany joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about combining…...
Enough with the "-maxxing
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (453+ words) If you're chronically online like me, you've probably come across a slang-suffix that's become part of the lexicon despite not being formally added to a dictionary " yet. It's part trend, part meme. And it's been showing up everywhere to underscore…...
The "Devil Wears Prada 2" wake-up call
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (239+ words) Madame X" was seen as Sargent's calculated attempt to drum up attention, and Gautreau's aim for the kind of legitimacy that sitting for one of Paris' great artists could afford. In other words, the painting's story isn't so different from…...
"Battlestar Galactica" had Cylons " We have AI
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (695+ words) As I recall, the main problems nonbelievers had with "Battlestar Galactica" were tech-related: The cable network revival, which began as a miniseries, demoted its monocular Cylon Centurions to favor new Cylons that looked and behaved like us. In the minds…...