This Week in Comedy Podcasts: ACouples TherapyRevolution

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The comedy-podcast universe is ever-expanding, not unlike theuniverseuniverse. Were here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. Each week, our crack team of podcast enthusiasts and specialists and especially enthusiastic people will pick their favorites. We hope to have your ears permanently plugged with the best in aural comedy. Though that last one isnt infuriating, just a delightful detail....

June 11, 2020 · 1 min · 182 words · Maria Horne

White Celebrities Take Responsibility for Racism the Only Way They Know How

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. You know theyre serious because the video is in black and white. You know theyre serious because its a montage. Our goal is to rally the white community, to provide education and encourage action. Our mission is to ensure this takes place. It is spearheaded by the production company behind the OWN seriesBlack Love. Some have argued that turning black suffering into an ice-bucket-style social media challenge isdeeply unhelpful....

June 11, 2020 · 1 min · 92 words · Shawn Glass

Zadie Smith to Release New Essay Collection About Life During Lockdown

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Looks likesomeoneshad a productive quarantine. The volumes six new essays will explore ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. This is not any of those. These are, above all, personal essays: small by definition, short by necessity. Intimations, she continues, was inspired by her early-quarantine read ofMarcus AurelissMeditations. Talking to yourself can be useful....

June 11, 2020 · 1 min · 86 words · Courtney Kennedy

21 TV Procedurals to Watch That Aren’t About Police

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The characters in these shows often work outside governmental agencies because theyve been excluded from those systems. Murder, She Wrote is streaming onAmazon Prime Video. The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency An adaptation of Alexander McCall Smiths novel series of the same name, TheNo. Her cases are rarely about death. She investigates break-ins, missing pets, stolen cars....

June 10, 2020 · 2 min · 260 words · Alan Richardson

Anna Wintour Takes Full Responsibility forVogue’s ‘Hurtful or Intolerant’ Behavior

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Recognizing it and doing something about it is overdue. We have made mistakes too, publishing images or stories that have been hurtful or intolerant. I take full responsibility for those mistakes, Wintour wrote. It cant be easy to be a Black employee atVogue, and there are too few of you. Maybe that meansreconciling with old friends....

June 10, 2020 · 1 min · 73 words · Christopher Ford

Building Trust After Inclusivity Failed: Lessons for the Theater

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The theater is an iceberg. And theater organizations are icebergs too. Below each public-facing performance, theres a gigantic mass of administration and funding and marketing and programming. Or, rather, it wasnt the protests that prompted this sudden public accounting. It was the institutionalresponseto the protests. And the Vivian Beaumont, LCTs premier Broadway theater, last programmed a black playwright in … 1987....

June 10, 2020 · 4 min · 684 words · Ariel West

Dickinson, Succession, and More Win 2020 Peabody Awards

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Could this presage an Emmys sweep? Watch Homer accept a Peabody Institutional Award on behalf of “@TheSimpsons!” Thirty years ago the@FoxTelevisionseries boldly and inventively ushered animation back into primetime. Related Tags:

June 10, 2020 · 1 min · 46 words · Wendy Johnson

Good Riddance toCops

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? Throughout the decades,Copswas also a key component of American law enforcements manicured self-image. Joe Friday, the uber-cop hero ofDragnet. But this presentation was loaded with its own, unremarked-upon assumptions. The series rarely showed police as troubled by anything but lack of funding or public support. Corruption, cynicism, or incompetence were rarely acknowledged and never examined at length....

June 10, 2020 · 1 min · 131 words · Jenna Black

HBO Max Sort of RemovesGone With the WindFrom Its Catalogue

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. HBO Maxhas removedGone With the Windfrom its catalogue … sort of. Take it off your platform for now. Related Tags:

June 10, 2020 · 1 min · 35 words · Kathryn Logan

If Lizzo Released This TikTok As a Track It Would Be the Song of Summer

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. All you dry-skinned trolls better listen up becauseLizzois not going to say this again. And you know what pop in that is? None of your fucking business. DID SHE FUCKIN STUTTER??? put some respeck on lizzopic.twitter.com/1OyMDPvB1l Related Tags:

June 10, 2020 · 1 min · 53 words · Michael Russell

Jonathan Majors on ShootingDa 5 Bloodswith a MAGA Hat on Set

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. But they have a stowaway: Jonathan Majors, who plays Lindos son, David. How did you wind up in this movie? It was a casting agent who connected us. I biked down from Harlem to Brooklyn to meet him at his office. And Im watching it, fool that I am, and I just start crying. And then Spike tells me about the film: Delroy Lindos going to play your dad....

June 10, 2020 · 2 min · 401 words · Jennifer Burns

Live PDCancelled After A&E Admits the Show Filmed a Police Killing

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. A&E has decided to defundLive PD, pulling the plug on one of cables biggest hits. But Abrams apparently spoke too soon. It has spawned multiple spin-offs as well. As for Abrams, he reacted strongly on Twitter to the news the connection was moving on fromLive PD. Shocked & beyond disappointed about this, hewrote. I was convinced the show would go on… More to come....

June 10, 2020 · 1 min · 81 words · Mr. Timothy Glenn

NASCAR Bans Confederate Flags At All Races and Events

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. On Wednesday, June 10, NASCAR announced that it would ban confederate flags from all races and events. The display of the confederate flag will be prohibited from all NASCAR events and properties. No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race. It starts with Confederate flags, said Wallace. Get them out of here....

June 10, 2020 · 1 min · 131 words · Susan Brady