Have we entered a new golden age of electronic dance music — or, as Deadmau5 asserts, are DJs just glorified button-pushers?
Blade Runner at 30: Celebrating Ridley Scott’s Dystopian Vision
Three decades after its release, Ridley Scott’s movie of the Philip K. Dick novel remains an icon of knotty science-fiction film mastery
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The Morning After: The Newsroom’s First Draft of History
My review of The Newsroom is in this week’s TIME (here’s my blog post elaborating on it), and it was not a positive one. But there’s been so much ink and bandwidth used up on the show in advance that I’m more interested now in …
Charting a New Course: Q&A with Education Visionary Deborah Kenny
“It’s just very strange to have a good thing come from a bad thing”
Spoiler Alert: Who is the ‘Vampire Hunter’ at the End of Abraham Lincoln?
The semi-regular series in which we totally spoil one of the weekend’s films. If you saw ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,’ please chime in below.
Brave Beats Abe: Vampires Slaughtered by Pixar’s Girl Power
Giving the Disney Princess tale a CGI makeover, Pixar scores its 13th straight No. 1 opener, leaving Vampire Hunter for dead and quickly ending Steve Carell’s World
Comments of the Week: June 16 – June 22
This week’s comments were so comment-y that we couldn’t resist singling out the cream of the crop. We learned a lot from our readers this week—about art, history, religion and how to see the world in the best possible …
Barbra Streisand to Revive 25-Year-Old Script in Directorial Return
After a 16-year absence, Streisand wants to get back behind the camera—if she can raise the cash for her independent film
RuPaul on Drag U, Ron Paul, and Lipsyncing for his Life
He might be the world’s most famous drag queen, but RuPaul knows he’s not the queen of drag. “That’s Cher,” he says. “She’s the queen of all drag of all time!” Here, the 51-year-old TV host—whose makeover show, …
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The Supreme Court’s FCC Ruling: A Decision, but No F-ing Closure
They may call it a “fleeting obscenity” case, but the journey of the lawsuit finally decided on by the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday, challenging FCC indecency charges, was anything but fleeting. The case stemmed from a flash of …
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Groovy Gigs: Top 10 TV Offices We Want to Work In
Q&A: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Writer on Literary Mashups and the Movie that Shouldn’t Exist
“It’s a high-octane summer action movie, and that didn’t come easily to me”
Smashing Pumpkins Regain Soul on Oceania
And why Billy Corgan is like LeBron James