A mass audience is watching a drama about a creepy surveillance system that is watching and analyzing their every move–and cheering for the creepy surveillance system.
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Do I Hate Coldplay? Or Just Think I Do?
I know I don’t like Coldplay, but I can’t seem to remember why.
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TV Tonight: Beavis and Butt-Head Return
I always loved Beavis and Butt-Head, but it was mostly for the wrong reasons. The ’90s show was groundbreaking and culturally significant for its interstitial scenes, in which Mike Judge’s two cartoon idiots would watch music …
Netflix and Amazon, Punished by Wall Street: Attention Streamers, the Free Ride Is Over
For those of us who prefer to digitally stream our home entertainment, Tuesday might have marked the end of the world as we know it.
Is John Jeremiah Sullivan the New Tom Wolfe? Yes. Yes He Is.
Six months ago, when David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King came out, I wrote an essay about it in TIME. I thought it was a good essay. So good was it, I thought, that when Longreads.com picked its favorite long-form essays of the …
Johnny Depp in The Rum Diary: Yo Ho Huh?
The Pirates star takes a break from kid-centric movies to honor his old pal Hunter Thompson with this louche, fitfully appealing comedy
Haunted Air: Spooky, Vintage American Halloween Photos
Greil Marcus used the phrase “old, weird America” when writing about Bob Dylan. But we don’t know a better way to describe these anonymous Halloween photos. Old and weird? Check.
Anonymous: So Shakespeare Was a Fraud? Really?
Disaster flick director Roland Emmerich turns Shakespeare into an illiterate baboon.
My Five Things: Cartoonist and Illustrator Seth
Whether it’s his cover illustrations for The New Yorker, his Criterion Collection art, his work on the 25-volume Complete Peanuts series or his standalone books Wimbledon Green and the just released The Great Northern Brotherhood …
Listen To The New Black Keys Song “Lonely Boy”
Finally, a band that doesn’t keep us waiting in between albums!
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The X Factor Live: It’s Not Idol. And That’s Not a Compliment
When Simon Cowell announced plans to launch The X Factor on Fox, I figured I had a bead on it: it would be more or less another version of American Idol in the fall, with different talent groupings. Which would be fine, but I …
We Asked Some Musicians to Pick Their Favorite Songs of All-Time
Iron and Wine, Phoenix, the Flaming Lips and others weighed in.
Dancing with the Stars Results: Saying Bye-Bye to Chaz Bono
On Monday night, our stars stepped to the beat of Broadway. At the end of that episode, a ten-point spread separated frontrunners Ricki Lake and J.R. Martinez from low scorer Chaz Bono. Talk show host Nancy Grace doggedly rose to …