No offense to Zooey Deschanel—well, I guess I can’t stop her from taking offense—but the last couple of episodes have made me imagine what an alternate-reality New Girl would have been like that starred Lizzy Caplan instead. …
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How a Red Hot Chili Pepper Gave Drive Its Pulse
“The weirdest compliment that I get is, ‘The music was so great I didn’t know that there was any,’” film composer Cliff Martinez told Carson Daly in a late-night interview that aired late last year.
At the time, the …
Lana Del Rey Gets The Superstar Treatment by Fiat
In his piece in this week’s TIME Magazine, Douglas Wolk weighs in on the Lana Del Rey debate.
If you regularly follow music blogs, or pay attention to new music in general, you’ve probably heard of Del Rey. At the very least, …
Counting Down Dickens’ Greatest Novels. Number 6: A Tale of Two Cities
Forget for a moment that it has become one of the most clichéd passages in literature, and read the opening sentence of A Tale of Two Cities:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was
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TV Tonight: Key and Peele
The very first , pre-credits sketch (video above) in tonight’s premiere of Key & Peele on Comedy Central may have been chosen because it’s short and very funny, but it’s also a kind of theme and mission statement. A man is talking on his cell phone to his wife about some theater tickets, when he sees another man—another African …
Is the Movie Industry Guilty of Dog ‘Breed-ism’?
Everyone always says it — the awards-show season is flawed. Safe, predictable choices often take top honors, while the brooding and more complex picks are prone to be left to the wayside.
Listen to TIME’s January Music Playlist on Spotify
Congratulations, you’ve survived January. To celebrate, we’ve made you a playlist.
At the end of each month, TIME will make a Spotify playlist of new music. This month, we’ve got a 12-song mix featuring everything from …
House Watch: Throwing Up Blood, Again
House M.D. returns this week with the case of a homeless girl who may or may not have a heart of gold. The only thing for sure is that House himself does not. More below, but first a spoiler alert: before reading on, find some of …
Leonard Cohen’s New, Beautiful Old Ideas
This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene.
To call Leonard Cohen a living legend would be to define the term. The …
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X’ed Out! Can Simon Cowell’s House Cleaning Save The X Factor?
Call it Rachel Crow’s revenge. (Or, if you prefer, Drew Ryniewicz’s.) After a first season of decent but not blockbuster-sized ratings, reports came out Monday that Simon Cowell had pulled a triple elimination on The X Factor, firing judges Paula Abdul (again!) and Nicole Scherzinger as well as host Steve Jones. (Fox has officially …
The Bachelor Watch: Ben Gets Naked in Puerto Rico
The claws come out and the clothes come off in this week’s Caribbean-set episode.
Counting Down Dickens’ Greatest Novels. Number 7: The Pickwick Papers
For decades after Dickens’ death, The Pickwick Papers remained his most beloved book. It has largely fallen off the map, but once you’ve read Pickwick, you see how crucial it is to the Dickens canon.
Spoiler Alert: On The Grey and The Punching of the Wolves
A new, semi-regular series in which we totally spoil one of the weekend’s films. If you saw The Grey, please chime in below.