Meh: Vanessa Carlton, “Future Pain” - Vanessa Carlton is finally back from her Broadway debut with a song off her upcoming spring album, Love Is An Art. I’ve been an ardent Vanessa stan for years (I’ve seen her in concert thrice and no, I’m not just hoping to hear “One Thousand Miles” again), but after the first few…

Former Vice President Joe Biden is reluctant to admit that the Obama administration wasn’t spotless. The administration’s record of deportation, in particular, has already come to mar the shiny sheen of Obama’s legacy, and is emphasized by the Trump administration’s further villainization of immigrants, asylum…

My new favorite journalist is “V,” an anonymous advice columnist at the Miami Hurricane, the University of Miami student newspaper, whose latest masterpiece is entitled “Hooking up with the football team.” The column is about precisely that, as V excavates a taxonomy of undergraduates who have consensually boned…

If you’d told the average moviegoer back in 2010 that by the end of the decade people would be clamoring for the return of the romantic comedy, there’s a good chance they would’ve laughed in your face. By the late aughts and early 2010s, the rom-com industry was facing a quantity-over-quality crisis, with horrendous…

I’m not sure how it happened, but a good news story entered my Twitter feed today. A dog left unattended in a car in South Florida drove around in circles, in a cul-de-sac, for an hour. The canine, who apparently refused to give his name or participate in an interview with ABC affiliate WPBF-TV, is a black lab who…

It’s the week before Thanksgiving which means it is basically Christmas time! FX is more than prepared with their new gloomy retelling of A Christmas Carol. The Vikings are sort of coming back, Zac Efron is trying to survive, and two soccer stars are looking for the next big talent. Here’s the latest.

It is, perhaps, the most magical time to be in New York City.

In 2015, Steve Penny, the former chief executive of USA Gymnastics, had his organization contact the FBI over reports of sexual abuse by their long-time doctor Larry Nassar. But the Wall Street Journal reports that while Penny knew that Simone Biles was among the first to say that Nassar’s actions had made her…

Having it all is hogwash. Big Having It All, I mean. The unassailable pressure that populates so much of the women’s empowerment industrial complex. The thing that made Katie Couric flip out at Sheryl Sandberg. The ideal that all women should balance family and career to be truly everything. (If that’s what you want…

This week, Meghan McCain revealed that she sleeps next to a photo of Dolly Parton and a copy of the constitution. Strange, I would have bet that she slept next to a photo of Joe Biden instead.

Rugby, a sport that I understand to be spiritually similar to American football, confounds me. There are big men, some bearded, some not, who throw a ball around a field. There are rules, sure, but none of which make any sense. Reading a report on what happened at a rugby match is an activity my pea brain cannot…

Sea dream salads—those gooey bundt pan molds of cucumbers suspended in lime Jell-O with a pile of tuna mixed with mayonnaise in the center—have become a symbol for post-WWII America. Depending on who you ask, they were either an act of feminist revenge for having to go back to the kitchens once the men came home from…

Senator Elizabeth Warren didn’t have a plan to escape a haunted submarine, but with the help of comedians Desus Nice and The Kid Mero, she managed. The presidential hopeful was quick on her feet on Thursday’s episode of Showtime’s Desus & Mero as she trawled around for hidden keys and solved puzzles in a Boston escape…

Joining Republican lawmakers in Texas, Georgia, Illinois, and Kentucky, a Republican lawmaker in South Carolina now wants to ban and penalize gender-affirming care for trans children, filing a bill that turns the right’s latest talking point in their war on trans rights—that supporting trans children and teens is akin…

Movie dudes love fighting about cinema. Someone didn’t like the way the cars exploded in their rival’s blockbuster. Some old men hate superheroes. The younger men, who will soon be old men, resent the already old men because they love their superhero movies and think the old men are out of touch. Critics, many men,…

For the second time this year, the Yale women’s soccer team has found itself without a head coach. Brendan Faherty was released from his position on Wednesday after a story in the Yale Daily News revealed a 2009 sexual misconduct allegation at the University of New Haven, in which he was accused of demanding that a…

Prince Andrew has “stepped back” from public duties, in the wake of a disastrous interview in which he failed to convincingly answer questions about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. What exactly that means is still unclear; the word “unprecedented” is being used. But while there’s no…