Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood Recap:

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1301 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood Last Tango with Paris Season 5 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood Last Tango with Paris Season 5 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I have made a terrible mistake. I have been recapping this show with the assumption that while the characters of Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood are deeply flawed, they are compelling human beings that present dynamic perspectives on blackness, femininity, and artistry. [Read More]

Love LifeRecap: Bro Code

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1299 words  |  Janel Helmers

Love Life Yogi & Kian Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Love Life Yogi & Kian Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Marcus hasn’t had an easy time. If he’s in a relationship, his heart usually isn’t in it, and when he is happy, he’s the victim of his partner’s unsorted baggage. [Read More]

Ludacris Lends Jennifer Hudson Some Cred

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  228 words  |  Sherie Connelly

GET OUT! SHUT UP! 1. Jennifer Hudson feat. Ludacris, “Pocketbook” Despite the corny image of Hudson swatting away Ludacris for getting too fresh, this new track from her upcoming solo release does a good job of transforming Hudson from a Dreamgirl into a modern R&B star. [Mixtape Maestro] 2. Mercury Rev, “People Are So Unpredictable (There’s No Bliss Like Home)” We were definitely surprised when Mercury Rev dropped a spacey instrumental album for free (Strange Attractor) to accompany their new full-length Snowflake Midnight. [Read More]

Luke Cage First Set Photos: Mike Colter Is Looking Mighty Fine in That Hoodie

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  158 words  |  Aldo Pusey

While you no doubt already know Luke Cage because you binge-watched Jessica Jones last weekend, here’s a refresher: Luke Cage the series is one of the live-action shows that Marvel and Netflix are making together, and Luke Cage the man is a superhero with super strength, rock-hard skin, and amazing pectorals (we added that last part). Ahead of its 2016 premiere, the show’s cast was on set in New York City Wednesday, so we got our first glimpse of what the show would look like. [Read More]

Luke Cages Take on Anti-Black Police Violence Is a Little Confusing

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1891 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Still from Marvel’s Luke Cage. Global super-brand Marvel has a long history of awkwardly addressing zeitgeist-y sociopolitical flashpoints. In the near-apocalyptically tense year of 1968, co-writers Stan Lee and Jack Kirby took on countercultural protest by having Thor tell a bunch of hippies to stop lazing around and fight for change within the system. While Richard Nixon flailed, Macbeth-like, in the final months before his resignation, a Captain America story written by Steve Englehart depicted him secretly working for the supervillain organization the Secret Empire. [Read More]

Macklemore Finally Explains Why He Owns a Bizarre Nude Justin Bieber Painting

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  521 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Never change. Macklemore has a new album out, but that’s not what we’re here to talk about. Today, we’d like to direct your attention to Rolling Stone’s new profile on the Mack, which, while we’re sure it unpeels the many layers of his white privilege, also contains a much more important nugget of information about one of his important purchases. While touring the Seattle studio Macklemore built with Ryan Lewis, writer Jonah Weiner noticed a particularly odd piece of decor hanging on the thrift king’s wall: [Read More]

Mad Men Recap: Nannies and Eggs

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  14 minutes  |  2839 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Mad Men Ladies Room Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Mad Men Ladies Room Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” was set mainly in the workplace. “Ladies Room” goes outside the office, letting us see more of the characters’ private lives and developing them as personalities apart from Sterling Cooper. [Read More]

Making Up Madonna

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  20 minutes  |  4183 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Dance-floor ringmaster, sex provocateur, Earth mother — Madge’s four decades of shapeshifting have been both a blessing and a curse. Illustration: Vulture; Photos Getty Images and Shutterstock. Madonna canonized the concept of eras long before the internet made it a pop cliché. “I don’t want to just keep doing the same thing and saying the same thing,” she told MTV’s Kurt Loder in 1991. As inspired by classic Hollywood glamor as she was by pop’s pioneers, she turned shapeshifting into a business model, and future stars were taking notes. [Read More]

Man Has Superintense Acid Trip While Watching 2001: A Space Odyssey

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  121 words  |  Elina Uphoff

One visitor to the Egyptian Theater in L.A. last weekend had an unusual experience, and several audience members captured it on-camera. Here’s a partial transcript, provided by Gawker: “Everybody get rid of your drugs! No, listen! Everybody listen to me — yes, fat man! Fat man! … Stanley Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick. Speak! No, listen; I know you believe me! We are all human beings! Is life a comedy? Is? Life? [Read More]