Sabrina Carpenter celebrated Halloween early Wednesday night at her concert in Dallas, donning a variety of costumes onstage, which also included one musical surprise. During the show at the American Airlines Center, Carpenter came out dressed as Olivia Newton-John’s Sandy character from the movie Grease and performed a rendition of …
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In the pulsating world of thriller fiction, pacing is the silent conductor, orchestrating a symphony of tension and release that keeps readers perched on the edge of their seats. It’s the art of manipulating the reader’s pulse, accelerating it with bursts of action, then allowing brief moments of respite before …
Read More »'The Diplomat' Is the Rare Netflix Show That Needs More Episodes, Not Fewer
This post contains spoilers for Season Two of The Diplomat, which is now streaming on Netflix. Few shows in recent memory have as good a handle on what they are as The Diplomat. That’s particularly impressive when you consider that the series — starring Keri Russell as Kate Wyler, a …
Read More »Charli XCX Is Bringing 'Brat' to 'Saturday Night Live' as Host and Musical Guest
Charli XCX is really committing to proving the “360” lyric “I’m everywhere, I’m so Julia” to be the truest statement she’s ever made. She was everywhere on tour, including a sold-out stop at Madison Square Garden. She also played a DJ set in front of an art installation for her …
Read More »'Monsters' Star Ari Graynor Prays the Menendez Brothers Will Be Released From Prison
Ari Graynor has tears in her eyes. We had been scheduled to speak this afternoon, Oct. 24, about her role in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, the Netflix miniseries that has helped reignite public fascination with the 1989 murder case in which the two brothers, 18 and 21 …
Read More »Thom Yorke Pauses Concert After Dispute With a Palestine Supporter
Radiohead‘s Thom Yorke paused a solo concert in Melbourne, Australia on Wednesday after an audience member shouted for the musician to “condemn the Israeligenocideof Gaza,” while asking: “How many dead children will it take?” Yorke addressed the person directly before leaving the stage. “Don’t stand there like a coward, come …
Read More »Fishbone Serenade Donald Trump With New Song 'Racist Piece of S-it'
Christopher Dowd, a founding member of Fishbone who plays keys and trombone in the group, knew he had to write a song about Donald Trump close to a decade ago when Trump first announced he was running for president. Now as another election day approaches, and Trump is on the …
Read More »Team Trump Is Buying Into RFK Jr.'s Vaccine Nonsense
Donald Trump has been fairly explicit regarding his plans to reward his most ardent sycophants with high-level administration positions should he win another term in office. Independent presidential candidate and vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for instance, is expected to take over a major national health role. His …
Read More »How Disney's Sleeper Hit 'Hocus Pocus' Changed Salem Forever
If you’ve visited Salem, Massachusetts, in the last decade or so, you’re probably well aware that the Disney movie Hocus Pocus was shot there. During spooky season, which now starts in the middle of August and runs through Halloween, the historic coastal city known for being the site of the …
Read More »How Elon Musk Helped Fuel the U.K.'s Far-Right Riots
On July 29, 2024, a man stabbed several people at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in the seaside town of Southport in northern England, killing three young children. As their deaths shocked the nation, rumors about the attacker’s identity quickly spread online. Far-right provocateurs like Andrew Tate — who was …
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