Peyton Manning Pivots to Hosting the 2022 CMAs With Luke Bryan

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  244 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Peyton Manning and Luke Bryan. Peyton Manning has spent the past few years, as retired sports pros tend to, refining his hosting talents on ESPN+ and ESPN2. The Hall of Fame quarterback recently extended his Manningcast deal with ESPN through 2024 (alongside brother Eli), on top of his previous Peyton’s Places gig on ESPN+. Now, he’s pivoting to the music world, set to helm the Country Music Association Awards on November 9. [Read More]

Pharoah Sanders Found His Voice in New York City

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1885 words  |  Janel Helmers

A prodigious talent like Pharoah Sanders wasn’t meant to live in Little Rock, Arkansas. The racism in his hometown was too thick, too stifling, too on the nose. “You had to play behind the curtain,” the tenor saxophonist once said. “They didn’t want to see Black people. They fed us, we had our little place where we ate, but they didn’t allow white people in there. Most of the jobs I played, a lot of parties and weddings, that’s how it was. [Read More]

Phish Reunite to Save Guests From Lame Wedding Band

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  135 words  |  Aldo Pusey

After months of hippie speculation, Phish reunited this past weekend to play a wedding. They’ve performed in some weird places in the past — Air Force bases, swamps, the roof of the the Ed Sullivan Theater, Vermont, etc. — but this gig, the nuptials of former Phish road manager Brad Sand, probably takes the cake! Har! The four members of Phish were attending the reception following the private New York ceremony and took over the hired wedding band’s instruments for a short set consisting of “Julius,” “Suzy Greenberg,” and “Waste,” the third song presumably a nod to the happy couple (lyrics: “come waste your time with me”). [Read More]

Phoebe Waller-Bridge Speaks Uncomfortable Truths in Her SNL Opening Monologue

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  132 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Winner of both our hearts and multiple Emmys, Phoebe Waller-Bridge spared no uncomfortable topic tonight in her SNL monologue. The first-time host covered a range of subject manner spanning sex addiction, women’s needs, and the ever-present reality of human genitalia. On psychopaths: “They’re really having a moment, aren’t they?” On why Hot Priest was hot: “Because he was doing this one thing: listening.” On people’s genitals: “They’re just sitting there. [Read More]

Physical: 100 Remains Gloriously Pointless

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1696 words  |  Sherie Connelly

When our childhood recesses turned into gym classes and adolescent sports games, we lost the unstructured hang. Gone are the days of pinwheeling around vault bars, duking it out in sandy tetherball pits, and throwing ourselves off swings then counting the seconds of hang time. Some of us turned these movements into competitions, crowning winners based on senseless points systems and ever-changing rules before running into our classrooms; the glory would matter only until lunch when we would dream up new challenges. [Read More]

Pino Palladino Never Met a Song He Couldnt Play

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2474 words  |  Sherie Connelly

“What I tell myself when I’m going to play on a song is ‘Just don’t ruin it.’” Pino Palladino has served as the final, lanky puzzle piece for innumerable songs over the past four decades. Even the bassist himself is unsure of the exact tally. It’s definitely in the high hundreds, maybe thousands. “I’ve heard a lot of people say that they can recognize me within a few notes, which is a huge compliment,” Palladino says. [Read More]

Polone: How Pilot Season Ensures That Great Actors Rarely Land the Right Shows

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1444 words  |  Zora Stowers

Oh God they hope they get it. They hope they get it… Hollywood is one month into pilot season. By the end of February, the networks will have culled the scripts they had been developing during the prior half-year and will order a select group of pilots for production. (Final decisions on which of these go to series is made in May.) But as the chosen scripts are anointed, the television industry becomes all about casting these projects. [Read More]

Populist Fare - Vulture

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  34 words  |  Aldo Pusey

vulture lists Aug. 12, 2009

5 Things We Actually Enjoyed About G.I. JoeIt wasn’t anything even remotely resembling a good film, but it was definitely a fun movie in spots.

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Positions Is Ariana Grandes Most Theatrically Horny Album Yet

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2520 words  |  Zora Stowers

It’s Judy Garland by way of Red Tube, or what might have happened had Julie Andrews loved to 69. Positions, Ariana Grande’s sixth studio album, is yet another entry in a body of work that more often than not finds itself at the direct intersection of grand theatricality and pure, enthusiastic horniness. The album is a fantastical fairy-tale journey into Ariana’s depraved mind, all lush violins, sparkling whistle tones, stacked harmonies, and novelistic descriptions of a quarantine that seems to have been spent primarily fucking. [Read More]