More than a decade ago, Jinkx Monsoon manifested her dream life. During her winning run on Season Seven of RuPaul’s Drag Race, she confessed that her biggest goal after the show was to “do drag on Broadway.” She’s more than made good on her word since. After finishing a celebrated …
Read More »Justin Timberlake's Career in Memes, From 'It's Gonna Be May' to His DWI Mugshot
It’s always a cultural event when a celebrity is arrested, but often enough, people are willing to forgive someone who has starred in great movies, dazzled as a pro athlete, or recorded favorite hit singles. Justin Timberlake, however, can no longer trade on his history with ‘NSync or his peak …
Read More »How Hidetaka Miyazaki Made 'Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree,' His Biggest Expansion Yet
Elden Ring was undoubtedly 2022’s Game of the Year, winning numerous awards across different shows and publications. With its dark fantasy atmosphere, punishing combat, and challenging difficulty, players keep coming back for more. It was also developer FromSoftware’s first open-world game, so it needed to have more content than any …
Read More »Willie Mays, Giants Legend and One of the Greatest Baseball Players of All Time, Dead at 93
Willie Mays, the iconic center fielder for the New York and San Francisco Giants whose extraordinary power and brilliance on the field won him two MVPs and the 1954 World Series, has died at the age of 93. “It is with great sadness that we announce that San Francisco Giants …
Read More »Why Are People Promoting Raw Milk?
Earlier this month, the sound of mooing rang out in the chambers of the Louisiana capitol when the House unanimously voted in favor of a bill legalizing the sale of raw milk in the state. HB467 also passed in the state Senate, and if Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signs it …
Read More »'Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree' Is an Excellent, Uneven Expansion to the Decade's Biggest RPG
A dismal rain poured on me as I first set foot in the Land of Shadow, the setting of Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion, an inauspicious moment that heralded an equally uninspiring opening hour. Linear exploration with clear signposting, an abundance of ambush encounters, and a lack of …
Read More »Sex Workers Are Getting Scammed on Instagram. Meta Needs to Step In
Like any other morning, trans content creator Lana Madison woke up and grabbed her phone. She checked her OnlyFans income, where she ranked in the top 0.06 percent of earners, and then her Instagram direct messages. Since Meta, parent company to Facebook and Instagram, frequently deletes performers’ pages, Lana maintained …
Read More »Gen Z Fears a Military Draft Because of TikTok Misinformation
TikTok is awash in warnings that young men in the U.S. could soon be drafted into military service and panicked reactions to that prospect — but all of it is predicated on a misinterpretation of a bill currently making its way through Congress. For generations, American men have been federally …
Read More »Inside Snapchat's Teen Opioid Crisis
A lex Neville was one of those boys who was always in costume, wearing his obsessions on his sleeve. At three, he went around dressed as a mummy, earnestly explaining the embalming process to children in Aliso Viejo, a town in Orange County, California. At seven, he was SoCal’s shortest …
Read More »We Partied With the 'Stereophonic' Team After Their Triumphant, 'Terrifying' Tony Awards Night
The Tony Awards are about to broadcast the last award of the night (Best Musical, given to The Outsiders), but champagne is already flowing at the P.J. Clarke’s across from the Lincoln Center, where the ceremony is being held. The restaurant is hosting a party for Stereophonic, this season’s buzzy …
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