There was a lot to criticize about the “Saturday Night Live” 40th anniversary celebration–Jerry Seinfeld’s #SorryNotSorry joshing around about “SNL’s” 40-year
Photo: Maya Robinson and Photo by Getty Stephen Colbert's reign as character-in-chief of The Colbert Report ends this week. To send him off, Vulture enlisted the help of celebrities, authors, journalists, actors, and other notables who have appeared on the show, or are just huge admirers, to recount…
“And that’s all you own? In that bag?”. “Yes”, I answered. It was for the third time that an inquisitive friend had asked the same question. I’d just arrived
This story first appeared in the Dec. 12 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
I was probably 19 when I first came to Hollywood. Eddie Murphy brought me out
The last time Frank Rich had a conversation with Chris Rock was in early 1996, when they and the 1950s teen heartthrob Pat Boone were thrown together in a New
This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's Nov. 24 The State of Football Issue. Subscribe today! AS THEY CAME over one of the last hills on Highway 6, the massive stadium appeared on the horizon. The silhouette of Kyle Field cut a chunk from the mid-October sky, and it was impossible to look at…
Over the years, people have battled and captured hundreds of Pokémon. And while everyone has their favorite, no pocket monster is as infamous as "Missingno." Let's take this opportunity to break down the many reasons why "Missingno" stands as one one of the coolest, most notorious glitches in…
Andrew Winning/Reuters The world's foremost street artist is a social justice warrior and a viral media master. She could be anyone. Banksy Does New York , a new documentary airing on HBO on Nov. 17, opens on a bunch of scofflaws trying to jack an inflatable word balloon reading "Banksy!" from the…
The following is an excerpt from the book The Brewer's Tale: A History of the World According to Beer , publishing October 13, 2014, from W.W. Norton. A tired farmhand trudges back from the fields, pushing through heavy curtains of grain to join his friends, lounging under a tree after a hard day's…
The GoPro short video is a post-literate diary, a stop on the way to a future in which everything will be filmed from every point of view. The pervasiveness of cameras, seemingly playful and benign, may be anything but. Credit Courtesy GoPro Late one fall afternoon two years ago, Aaron Chase, a…
Editor’s Note: This essay originally appeared in the London Review of Books in 2003, titled “Using So Little.” This slightly edited and updated version is excerpted from Sean Wilsey’s new collection of essays, More Curious , out now from McSweeney’s. Personal Editor’s Note: This is my favorite essay…
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Lost premiered 10 years ago this week. It ended four and a half years ago. And I still miss it like crazy.
This doesn’t seem to be a popular opinion these
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Yesterday, Death Cab for Cutie announced their first album in nearly four years and most people acted like they had broken up instead. This is because their return was bundled with the news that guitarist/producer Chris Walla was quitting after 17 years with the Washington band. And Walla…
H ow did Kevin Love become part of LeBron’s “I’m Coming Home” package to Cleveland even before that signing went down? LeBron passes 40,000 career minutes during the seventh minute of opening night in October, that’s how. The King doesn’t have time to wait for two Canadian kids to evolve into…
At its cafes, Blue Bottle might make one of the best iced-coffee drinks in America. But are artisan businesses doomed to fail when they try going mainstream?
Playing video games with LeBron James is so annoying.
“When we were growing up we used to play this fighting game on the Sega Genesis called Shaq Fu,” says
In 2005, the House of Representatives passed an act that forbade consumers to sue fast-food operators over weight gain. “The Cheeseburger Bill” (formally, “The Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act”) attempted to legislate the message that the costs of fast food are personal, not social,…
The deskbound polemics of “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” demonstrate focus and sustained thought. Eric Liebowitz/HBO At this point, we all have heard that print media is dying and that online journalism rests upon shaky business models. But at least fake news is thriving, right? Not so fast.…
Macey J. Foronda / BuzzFeed Like so many true romances, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller first committed to each other with an act of profound cheesiness. It was the summer of 1996, and Miller was interning at the visual effects house Industrial Light and Magic while living in what amounted to a…
DreamWorks’ How To Train Your Dragon 2 considerably expands the world introduced in the first film, and that expansion includes a significant new presence: Valka, the long-lost mother of dragon-riding protagonist Hiccup, voiced by Cate Blanchett. The film devotes much of its sweet, sensitive middle…
Nathan Fielder (seated), in a tough spot in downtown Los Angeles. Jeff Minton for The New York Times The new cafe at 1802 Hillhurst Avenue looked familiar, but something was off. It was nestled into a strip mall in Los Feliz, on the east side of Los Angeles, and its logo was a double-tailed mermaid,…
With 4/20 coming around this Sunday, we could have easily given you a list of all the reasons that Super Troopers has become one of the greatest "stoner comedies" of all time. Instead, we decided to chat with all five of the Broken Lizard guys to let them tell you all about this little film they…
The old man set it up masterfully. He mentioned that his 67th birthday was coming up and waited for the “APPLAUSE” sign to flicker off. Sixty-seven. He’d been hosting a late-night show for half his life, he realized, so he grabbed an index card and counted up the shows. When he mentioned making more…
I’m a big David Foster Wallace fan. His 2005 commencement speech will go down as one of the best ever. If you’re aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently … You get to decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. He’s also a big proponent of thinking . I have come…
BEGIN WITH ONE LARGE FISTFUL OF SLIGHTLY DINGED, Mary Richards–brand feminist spunk. Add in two clumps of zany, Larry Sanders star-power narcissism, and a…
For nine years, Jerry Seinfeld played a character named “Jerry Seinfeld” on the most popular show on television. During that time, he never revealed a single thing about himself. Sure, both Jerries wore sneakers, ate cereal, and dated a procession of young brunettes . The two were even ostensibly in…
Google's proposed 1.2 million square foot Bay View campus. (NBBJ) Not a cash cow That growth might not be so bad if Google had more to offer than higher property values. City council member Mike Kasperzak is generally proud to call Google a neighbor, but he points out that the company’s presence…
Sure, he’s done stand-up, too; right out of college, he’d take a bus from his aunt’s in Fort Hamilton to do sets at Carolines comedy club in Times Square, and…
A Toast Story By John Gravois Giulietta Carrelli outside the Trouble Coffee & Coconut Club. (Photo: Jeff Singer) All the guy was doing was slicing inch-thick pieces of bread, putting them in a toaster, and spreading stuff on them. But what made me stare — blinking to attention in the middle of a…
And nowadays people who write in Clinical Standard Written English actually mark themselves as untrustworthy by doing so. Because the new usage, call it Modern Written English, is everything CSWE is not: first-person, colloqiual, breezy, open, and personal.
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e arrives early, wearing a white T-shirt and red cotton shorts, and during the handshake he reaches out with his free hand, as if to say, I’m open to hugging, but I’ll leave it up to you. You would like him. He would like you. You would like Tim Tebow because he actually looks at you,…
America received the ultimate booty call on May 7, 1992, courtesy of Seattle rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot and his song “Baby Got Back.” Since its release through legendary rap-rock producer Rick Rubin’s Def American label, the up-tempo track — which spent five weeks at No. 1 and was the second-best-selling…
Can a bunny in the desert tell us? Playboy Marfa at sunset. Photograph by LeAnn Mueller Login / Register OR No Account? Register here. It was mid-April when Judge Paul Hunt’s office received the first call. The judge was at his desk inside the Presidio County courthouse, a pink stucco building with…
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A note from the editors: We are pleased to present you with an excerpt from Sass For Web Designers by Dan Cederholm, available now from A Book Apart.
I was a reluctant believer in Sass. I write stylesheets by hand! I…
In pop music, you learn how to wait around. Venues, airports, hotels. Waiting, waiting, waiting. And photo shoots. In mid-July Ella Yelich-O’Connor, now far…
When I was asked to edit an issue of the New Statesman I said yes because it was a beautiful woman asking me. I chose the subject of revolution because the New Statesman is a political magazine and imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about…
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