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Top Spin 4 is hard to find but worth the search. The U.S. Open season always compels me to pick up a tennis racquet. No, I don’t really know how to play the sport. I grew up with badminton, which isn’t particularly recognized in this country, and these days, I’m more prone to jump into a game of pickleball, a.k.a. the “garbage psy-op NFT” sport that’s been bottling up a ton of venture capital lately. [Read More]

Funny or Die “hacked” Theron’s phone (April Fools’!), and it turns out she’s just like us (she holds her camera up at an angle to elongate her neck, and then she puckers her lips, Lisa Rinna–style). [Funny or Die]

See Charlize Theron Do ‘Duck Face’

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When Alma (Vicky Krieps) interrupts Reynolds (Daniel Day-Lewis) to bring him tea in Phantom Thread, she’s bullied out of the room. In this exclusive camera test from behind the scenes of Phantom Thread, Cyril (Lesley Manville) has better luck. In the clip, director Paul Thomas Anderson, Manville, and Day-Lewis are all getting a feel for the House of Woodcock’s fussy couturier. It’s clear what was axed, and what stayed the same: A garish teapot had to go, as did the regular tie Day-Lewis dons during breakfast. [Read More]

As part of our examination of the last century of New York pop music, illustrator Sarah King created this map of the city’s hip-hop landmarks, from 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx (the site of DJ Kool Herc’s rec-room parties) down to Staten Island’s Stapleton Houses (home base for the Wu-Tang Clan). Take a look below to explore the streets where rhyme met rhythm. *This article appeared in the March 24, 2014 issue of New York Magazine. [Read More]

When it comes to representation, Sex Education never really stops at one of anyone. There’s far more than one Black character. More than one transgender character. More than one physically disabled character. More than one mentally ill character. So it makes sense that the Netflix high-school comedy wasn’t satisfied to explore asexuality merely once or twice, in small moments. It revisits the orientation, which is defined by the absence of sexual attraction, in its fourth and final installment, with a prominent character whose arc lasts the entire season — and in the process complicates the question of what we want and expect when it comes to representation, in general, and asexuality specifically. [Read More]

Sex Education Episode 5 Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Sex Education Episode 5 Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Jean Milburn has never been perfect. A core aspect of the character is the tension between her professional and personal life; success in the former has taught her to think of herself as a voice of reason, but she can’t always apply those skills to her own life. [Read More]

Emma Mackey. Netflix’s raunchy teen dramedy Sex Education kicks off with an enterprising outsider — the hard-edged, down-on-her-luck Maeve Wiley — who spots an opportunity to make a little cash. Her classmates are hopelessly clueless about sex, and Maeve guesses that they might pay real money for an amateur sex clinic. Over the course of the show’s debut season, she and her partner Otis (Asa Butterfield) attempt to help their fellow students navigate relationships, learn how to masturbate, and unmask the slut shamer behind an anonymous sext sent to the entire school. [Read More]

party chats June 13, 2016

Sheldon Harnick on His Tony Lifetime AchievementThe 92-year-old lyricist was honored at Sunday night’s ceremony.

By Bennett Marcus

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Shia LaBeouf is expanding his résumé beyond actor, Feist defender, gumbo enthusiast, Wall Street hanger-on, occasional director of music videos, and amateur pugilist to include comic-book author and artist. The Transformers star set up shop at a Chicago comics convention this past weekend, selling his original, self-published comic books and illustrations for the steep price of $20 a pop. And … the work is not so great. Comics Alliance has posted some scans of LaBeouf’s art — “an illustrated journey into my thoughts” is what LaBeouf calls his book Let’s Fucking Party. [Read More]