Britney Spears Says Music ‘Is Not My Focus at the Moment’

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Pushing forward in my music career is not my focus at the moment, she writes. Its time for me to not be someone who other people want; its time to actually find myself. After the song was released in August 2022, it hit No. 6 on the Hot 100 and No. 3 on the U.K. Singles chart....

October 23, 2023 · 1 min · 166 words · Paula Anderson

Comedy’s Scrappiest All-Stars

Mark Phillips and RDCWorld have built a DIY content empire. NBA icons and Hollywood producers are taking notice. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The scene opens on a kitchen in a suburban home. The restaurant supervisor, played by Mark Phillips, cannot abide this respectful conduct. He shoves the employee aside and steps in to berate the customer while purposely botching his order....

October 23, 2023 · 4 min · 770 words · Nathan Lawrence

Dave Chappelle’s October 19 Whereabouts Are A Mystery

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Where was Dave Chappelle the evening of October 19? Because a spokesperson for Chappelle toldTheWall Street Journalthe comedian denies being in Boston that night. Some audience members reportedly walked out. Sources Related Tags:

October 23, 2023 · 1 min · 48 words · Brian Mckenzie

Ghost Child

InThe Woman in Me, Britney Spears asserts the very fact of her existence. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Britney Spears suffered so many forms of injustice when she was under legal conservatorship. She had to tour even when she didnt want to. She had to perform nightly in Vegas and wasnt allowed to change any of the choreography. After more than a decade of this, she was institutionalized against her will....

October 23, 2023 · 5 min · 1019 words · Karen Brown

Joshua and Vernon on Seventeen’s Super Silly, Sincere Career

Superlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. (It also holds the record for the highest first-day sales in K-pop, with 3.99 million copies). We hit numbers we never thought wed achieve before, adds rapperVernon. We were just really surprised. Nobody expectedFMLto do that well. Those kind of achievements always just give us a sense of responsibility to giveCaratsa better experience....

October 23, 2023 · 6 min · 1181 words · Jeffrey Holt

Maha Dakhil of CAA Leaves Leadership Roles After Israel-Hamas War Comments

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Dakhil later apologized for the post on October 18. Choice of words is important, she wrote on Instagram,according to Deadline. As each excruciating day passes, Im listening and learning more from my friends. Im holding all our families in my prayers … I am grieving for everyone who is suffering right now. I continue to mourn all innocent lives....

October 23, 2023 · 1 min · 135 words · Thomas Brown

Make Like a Tree: Renae Simone Jarrett’sDaphne

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Too soft, in fact. Thats partly because Jarrett wants to have her myth and eat it too. Daphnes body is violated after all. Girl just wanted to listen to her music. These currents of menace, pursuit, and physical violation flow heavy through Jarretts play. Shes treeifying though, perhaps its only a symbol? People look at her weird but notnearlyweird enough for whats happening,ifits whats happening....

October 23, 2023 · 2 min · 292 words · Dr. Bethany Grant

Taylor Swift Celebrates Her Tenth No. 1 Hit

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Its been a long time coming for Taylor Swifts Cruel Summer, four years in fact. Swifties have been fighting the charts throughout 2023 to get a no. They excitedly talk over each other until the acknowledge the irony that it is now Hot Girl Autumn. It is deep fall. Im wearing a sweater, said Swift, pointing to her brown knit top....

October 23, 2023 · 1 min · 139 words · Danielle Moore

The Last Midnight: Sondheim and Ives’sHere We Are

A strange, dark, fragmented, and compelling final message from the master. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. asks the anarchist Emma Goldman in Sondheim and John WeidmansAssassins. The play has sharp, savage urges, springing from its sense of injustice. (Director Joe Mantello has been on board helping to develop the show since 2016.) Their only goal has been to eat; now theyre left with nothing to consume but themselves....

October 23, 2023 · 3 min · 471 words · Brianna Hernandez

The Printing Puzzle

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October 23, 2023 · 1 min · 26 words · Christopher Steele

The Rolling Stones Paint It Backward

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. To a flurry of indignant commenters, it was mostly just outrageous. Or: Maneskin sucks, but have you not heard Idles, Scowl, Fontaines D.C.? At this point, the rock-is-dead conversation has become an internet ouroboros, inexhaustible and broadly unwinnable. Whats new is retro; whats old is, for the most part, well-commodified nostalgia. Thats generally how rent works....

October 23, 2023 · 1 min · 112 words · William Garcia

The Triple-A Game Studio With an Indie Spirit

How does Remedy Entertainment convince billion-dollar companies to make its esoteric games? Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Remedy Entertainment employs over 360 people. In other words, Remedy Entertainment is, indisputably, a triple-A video-game studio. The titles that bear their imprint are experimental, idiosyncratic, proudly auteur-ish, and deeply strange. They take nods from crime fiction, noir films, and speculative cosmic horror....

October 23, 2023 · 3 min · 479 words · Troy Moss

The Uncharted Territory of Pras Michél’s AI Courtroom Claims

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Ready or not,FugeesmemberPrasMichel is facing AI head-on. Michel is demanding a new trial following his recentconvictionon conspiracy charges in April. Michels allegation about AI is part of a broader claim that Kenner was ineffective and severely prejudiced the defense. The AI program failed Kenner, and Kenner failed Michel, his new lawyers said in court papers....

October 23, 2023 · 2 min · 362 words · Timothy Bowers