A Line-by-Line Biblical Analysis of Lady Gagas Judas

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1089 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Lady Gaga’s “Judas” is more than a pop anthem to loving the wrong guy: It’s also the perfect excuse to examine infamous Catholic schoolgirl Lady Gaga’s religiosity and the way she appropriates, inverts, and reworks Biblical allusions and images. Here’s a serious, line-by-line analysis of the liturgical references in “Judas from Luke 7:38 to John 13:27.” They don’t call her “Godga” for nothing … “I’ll wash his feet with my hair if he needs” [Read More]

A Modest Proposal: Break the Art Fair

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2146 words  |  Janel Helmers

Frieze New York art fair in 2017. As a system, art fairs are like America: They’re broken and no one knows how to fix them. Like America, they also benefit those at the very top more than anyone else, and this gap is only growing. Like America, the art world is preoccupied by spectacle — which means nonstop art fairs, biennials, and other blowouts. Yet the place where new art comes from, where it is seen for free and where almost all the risk and innovation takes place — medium and smaller galleries – are ever pressured by rising art fair costs, shrinking attendance and business at the gallery itself, rents, and overhead. [Read More]

A Posthumous Final SOPHIE Album Is Coming

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  248 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Sophie. SOPHIE’s career ended abruptly when the visionary producer died in January 2021 at just 34. She had debuted new music months before and had collaborations with Jlin and Basside slated to come out. Little of SOPHIE’s music has been released since, but now, her career will get a coda: SOPHIE, a posthumous final album, is out September 27. SOPHIE had been working on the album with her brother and studio manager, Benny Long, and he completed the album after her death. [Read More]

A Quick Review of Everything That Has Happened in Eight Seasons of One Tree Hill

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  629 words  |  Zora Stowers

One Tree Hill One Tree Hill begins its ninth and final season tonight, and even though it started as a relatively run-of-the-mill teen soap, it’s become a lunatic fiesta that would make a daytime soap blush and makes the racier ABC Family dramas look like guidebooks to being Amish. On the off chance you want to catch up before tonight’s premiere, here’s your handy condensed guide to everything that’s happened on One Tree Hill, from comas to shootings to graduation labors to dogs eating hearts to more shootings. [Read More]

A Real Housewives Nude Model Bares and Tells All

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  22 minutes  |  4648 words  |  Aldo Pusey

This column originally appeared in Brian Moylan’s newsletter, The Housewives Institute Bulletin. Sign up here to be the first to read the next edition. This column originally appeared in Brian Moylan’s newsletter, The Housewives Institute Bulletin. Sign up here to be the first to read the next edition. Hello and welcome to the Housewives Institute Bulletin. I am your sister from another mister, Dame Brian Moylan, president and founder of the Housewives Institute. [Read More]

A Timeline of 50 Cents Tumultuous Relationship With Starz

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1027 words  |  Sherie Connelly

50 Cent. 50 Cent and Starz’s lovers-to-enemies storyline started in 2018 when he signed on to a lucrative multi-series deal to executive produce the Power universe. Fast-forward three years, and the rapper turned producer threatened to exit his deal with the Lionsgate-owned cable company over creative differences and failure to renew Power spinoff Book IV: Force, the latest iteration of the popular franchise. On March 9, it was announced that Power Book IV: Force was renewed for a second season, with 50 Cent still tapped to executive produce. [Read More]

A Walk in the Woods Is a Trail Not Worth Traveling

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  711 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Turn back. The lax, lame A Walk in the Woods is a road movie without a road, a journey of self-discovery without discovery, and a tale of friendship without any chemistry. Based on travel writer Bill Bryson’s 1998 best-seller about his attempts to hike the Appalachian Trail in his late 40s, it stars two far older actors whose energies can either be complementary or mismatched: The always understated Robert Redford plays Bryson, and Nick Nolte, one of our most wonderful scenery-chewers, plays Stephen Katz, Bryson’s gruff, shaggy old friend from Iowa who is the only one to answer the writer’s call for a traveling companion. [Read More]

A Wrinkle in Time Book Club: Justice for Aunt Beast!

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1277 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Fret not children, for we have returned! Vulture’s book club is back to parse Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. When we last convened, Alex and Hunter discussed the unthinkable: somehow both of us had made it through our adolescence without reading the children’s classic. Now, with the whole book read, we’re ready to discuss Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which, Mrs. Whatsit, the missing Dr. Alex Murry, and Meg’s earnest journey to self-acceptance. [Read More]

A$AP Mob Pays Tribute to the Life of A$AP Yams

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  321 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Steven Rodriguez, known better as A$AP Yams, has died at the age of 26, according to social-media posts by fellow A$AP Mob members. Yams started the influential hip-hop collective with A$AP Bari and A$AP Illz in 2007 and soon after met A$AP Rocky in 2008. Together they would transform hip-hop. Yams is largely known as the mastermind behind the scenes with an encyclopedic knowledge of hip-hop who curated rising talent on his Tumblr. [Read More]

Actress Alley Mills Alleges The Wonder Years Was Canceled Over Sexual-Harassment Lawsuit

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  343 words  |  Zora Stowers

Alley Mills. In a recent interview with Yahoo! Entertainment, The Wonder Years star Alley Mills alleges that the hit ABC sitcom came to an end after six seasons in large part due to a sexual-harassment lawsuit filed against show stars Fred Savage and Jason Hervey. According to the actress, who played both actors’ onscreen mom Norma Arnold, the harassment allegations were lodged by a former Wonder Years employee. “When we shot the series finale, which was in Whittier, nobody knew whether or not The Wonder Years was going to be renewed,” Mills says. [Read More]