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What scares you? It’s a question you know the answer to innately and immediately, as individualized as your…

There were many things on the internet in 2017, some of which were very good! Dril is here, for example. Tom Hanks…

Yesterday The Ringer spoke with the Church Of Satan’s PR team. That’s a fun sentence to read, right? If you know…

The recently unretired Steven Soderbergh is something of a workaholic. This is a guy who walked away from filmmaking…

Sure, the corny covers for K.A. Applegate’s Animorphs books make for a solid template for memes. But a piece at Avidly

The trailer for “cinematic game changer” Steven Spielberg’s upcoming Ready Player One has gotten some heat from…

Yesterday, White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci went from the new kid in the West Wing to newly…

Last night, the Washington Post published a piece delightfully titled “Did a 9-year-old called ‘Pickle’ really write…

On Tuesday, new White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said that if he had to fire everyone in his…

During yesterday’s White House press briefing, Sarah Huckabee Sanders apparently decided it was time for a little…

As an accompaniment to this week’s NPR list that put forth a new canon of 150 great records made by women, our…

Now that our sickly, cinnamon-wild boy Sean Spicer has resigned, the White House communications office—that is, the…

NPR has put together a list of 150 records that orient the established pop music canon around records made by women.…

The signature neon-and-smoke Blade Runner aesthetic is all over video games, from Hideo Kojima’s 1988 Snatcher to…

Yesterday, our truck-loving boy Donald Trump was tweeting, because who could tell that face “no”? Here are two of…

If you were old enough to be conscious in the ’90s, you have seen a Big Dog T-shirt, either on your dad, someone…

Guitarist Rob Scallon has ripped Slayer on a ukelele, righted the wrong done by the infamously bass-light mix on…

Last week, while Donald Trump was in France celebrating Bastille Day hand-wrestling with the president and failing…

Not a lot of folks like Garden State these days. Consider: Noisey’s 10th-anniversary article, which calls it “a love…

George R.R. Martin has it kind of rough. He started writing the first book in his world-beating fantasy saga A Song…