That’s Really Mom Up There:Suicide ForestandSKiNFoLK

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. In the theater, youre safe assuming that everything is a lie. Theatrical mechanisms glide when theyve been oiled with falsehood: Its what the machine was designed for. But what happens when you get something real in the gears? Two pieces opening this week stop the fiction-machine mid-flow with a jerk. In their case, smoothness would be the lie....

March 6, 2020 · 2 min · 373 words · William Strickland III

The ExplosiveDare MeFinale That Almost Wasn’t

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. (Warning: Spoilers ahead. Go back to the JV squad if you dont want to have the show ruined for you.) We so wanted to get inside that marriage. We had to hide it for so long. What happened in the alternate ending? Now we have both surprises at the end. How did you decide which one to go with?...

March 6, 2020 · 3 min · 519 words · Karen Curtis

The PlatformTrailer Features a Grotesque Vertical Prison Bringing Out Humanity’s Worst

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Everything aboutThe Platformfeels upsetting on a fundamental level. People starve to death. People fall or jump through the center opening to their deaths. There seems to be cannibalism. Related Tags:

March 6, 2020 · 1 min · 45 words · Cristian Hunter

This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: Murder in the Pacific Northwest

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Thetrue-crime podcast universeis ever expanding. Were here to make it a bit smaller and a bit more manageable. Each week, our crack team of podcast enthusiasts and specialists will pick their favorites. But I picked a great episode to dive into head first. Despite police efforts, Anns body was never found and a suspect was never charged....

March 6, 2020 · 2 min · 326 words · Amanda Garrison

Usama Siddiquee Wants You to Remember Comedians’ Names

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Usama Siddiquee (@UsamaBinLaughin) is a stand-up comedian based in New York. Hes appeared on BET, ShowtimesDesus & Mero, and at Just For Laughs festival. He also hosts a podcast calledMango Bae. What made you pursue a comedy career?I was always funny with my friends. I had all these terrible Osama bin Laden puns. But I went up and killed it....

March 6, 2020 · 2 min · 425 words · Nathan Acosta

Céline Dion Is NOT In New York to Steal Its Precious Landmarks

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. That would be preposterous. it’s celine dion’s world and we’re just living in it pic.twitter.com/UUQ2Tml4SM Preposterous. Related Tags:

March 5, 2020 · 1 min · 33 words · Gabriella Castillo

Demi Lovato Says Her ‘Controlling’ Team Led to Her Relapse

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Demi Lovatocried seeing her 27th birthday cake and it wasnt just because cake is a heavenly food. Little things like that, it led me to be really, really unhappy, she explained. My bulimia got really bad and I asked for help and I didnt receive the help I needed. So, at six years sober, Lovato relapsed....

March 5, 2020 · 1 min · 164 words · Terry Thomas

Girl From the North CountryHas No Direction Home

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. So whats left when Dylans literary lyrics are abraded away by deliberate misreadings? Whats left when all those wildly varying songs are smoothed into pretty, same-sounding mood pieces? Dylan without the music wins a Nobel but Dylans music without the meaning wins…less. Dont worry about that title swap out that Girl for a Man. Doc, when he gets on that Garrison Keillor mic, talks very quickly....

March 5, 2020 · 3 min · 451 words · Jonathan Jackson

Grey’s AnatomyFinally Told Us What Happened to Alex Karev

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Oh, Evil Spawn, what have you done to us? And our hearts broke. THIS IS MEREDITH GREYS PERSON, YOU MONSTERS. Since the shows midseason return in late January,Greyshas been slowly offering up information about Karevs off-screen whereabouts. But the bigger concern: He even stopped answering Meredith. And then finally, tonight,Greysstopped playing around and told us where Alex Karev really was....

March 5, 2020 · 1 min · 105 words · Nathan Mendez

Katy Perry Talks Pregnancy Reveals, Both Viral and ‘Bespoke’

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. And they would get the reaction later. Its funnier when Perry tells it, we swear. You had to have been there, we guess. Related Tags:

March 5, 2020 · 1 min · 40 words · Cassandra Powell

Kendrick Lamar, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Launches Something ‘Selfless’

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The latest to do so? And his nonmusic passion? It isnt a fragrance, or a memoir, or making a feature-lengthkung-fu film. Its … global, multilingual, creative media solutions. Thats the chic, serifed promise behind Lamars latest project, founding an at-service company called pgLang. https://t.co/IucgqwEiG0pic.twitter.com/VFk7glme1N See, its not an ad-service company. It reads: pgLang is multilingual....

March 5, 2020 · 1 min · 199 words · Mr. Daryl Douglas

Megan Thee Stallion Goes on ESPN to Rep Houston and Casually Shade Label Exec Carl Crawford

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. In the lawsuit, Megan also alleges that Rap-A-Lot Records founderJames J. Princeattempted to intimidate artists on Crawfords behalf. Prince took to Instagram, posting a picture with Carl Crawford and denying the accusation. A post shared by J Prince (@jprincerespect) But Megan will hear none of it. When asked on ESPN about navigating a male-dominated industry, she said she demands respect....

March 5, 2020 · 1 min · 149 words · David Zavala

My Dark VanessaWas an Oprah’s Book Club Pick. Then It Was Abruptly Dropped.

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Russells publishers decided to move the books release back from January to March to accommodate the clubs schedule. Publishers Lunch firstreportedthe news earlier this week. Oprah didnt change her selection. Meanwhile,My Dark Vanessa, was swept up in a parallel drama. (On Friday, Oprahs book club discussion ofAmerican Dirtwill be out on Apple TV+.) Haber echoed her bosss perspective....

March 5, 2020 · 1 min · 118 words · Alan Torres