I’ve always loved Passover. Okay, not always; my three-quarters Jewish, mostly atheist family and I didn’t throw seders when I was growing up. But ever since college, I’ve been coming together with friends to read the Haggadah (albeit one with a queer, feminist, decidedly modern bent), break matzah apart, dip parsley in salt water, ask … Read more
People are getting tired of superhero movies. Marvel’s been trying its hardest to get Young Avengers off the ground, but it’s not 2008 anymore, and it’s a lot harder to get people to the theaters. Ironically, that makes it the perfect time to bring back Deadpool and pair him up with Wolverine in a highly … Read more
If you’re feeling a shift in the air today, don’t worry: that’s not another seismic event, but the kinetic energy of millions of Swifties mobilizing around the globe to welcome Taylor Swift’s latest albums, The Tortured Poets Department and The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, into her oeuvre. Everyone has been buzzing about the drop … Read more
Paris Hilton is seen with her new Lexus LFA in Malibu, California on July 15, 2011.Photo: Jean Baptiste Lacroix (Getty Images) For whatever reason, people are enamored with celebrities, but as a car person I care more about celebrities’ cars than their latest tropical vacation or newest starring role. Celebrities are known to have some … Read more
Is Alonso the Aston of Taylor’s eye? Photo: Bryn Lennon – Formula 1 (L) Ashok Kumar/TAS24 (R) (Getty Images) It’s a big day. Taylor Swift just released her heartbreaking new album and surprised fans by making it a whopping double release with 31 songs and more than two-hours of new music. Have you listened yet? … Read more
Photo: Stuart C. Wilson / Stringer (Getty Images) We’ve known for a while now that The Grand Tour as we currently know it would be going away. Back in January, Clarkson, who was fired from Top Gear for punching a producer over a sandwich, told The Times of London that he’s too “unfit and fat … Read more
Aruba’s colonial history also meant documents were spread all over the place. “Our collection was scattered,” says Edric Croes, the head of archival conservation and management at the National Archives of Aruba. There were works to be scanned across the world, including in the Netherlands, Spain, the United States, and other islands like Curaçao. Establishing … Read more
Last Action Hero is unironically one of my favorite films of the 1990s. It was a critical and commercial disappointment, but the thirty years of distance since its release have helped paint it with a sheen of nostalgia. It’s a sharp and interesting extra meta send up of the kinds of action films star Arnold … Read more
Everyone grab your Prada backpacks and lace up your Sketchers, because 10 Things I Hate About You turns 25 today! The 1999 film, which stars Julia Stiles, Larisa Oleynik, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gabrielle Union, and the late Heath Ledger, is one of the many noughties films that gave one of the Bard’s classics a more modern … Read more
In all of Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual musings, he likely never imagined the circumstance that Damian and Elizabeth Hurley created when filming the movie Strictly Confidential: a son directing his mother in a sex scene. “It’s interesting, people are getting very up in arms about this,” Damian tells Vogue, glancing over at Elizabeth. The mother-son duo … Read more
