“In a short time, man will be able to see what is happening anywhere in the world without leaving his own house,” the gypsy chief Melquiades prophesies to the settlers of Macondo on Page 2 of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Fast-forward 415 pages, and we learn that Melquiades’s chronicle of […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) future remains murky as former House maverick Matt Gaetz interviewed several House Republicans who remain undecided on his new OANN show. Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Thomas Massie (R-KY), and Victoria Spartz (R-IN) all told Gaetz that they either oppose Johnson’s bid or require notable changes in order for him to […]
Angela Merkel hired no fewer than eight English language translators to work on the German text of her new autobiography, Freedom, which is astonishing when one considers how little of substance she has to say. Upon assuming the chancellorship of Germany in 2005, Merkel made history not only as the first female leader of the […]
Alicia Arritt had no inkling that her ex-boyfriend was planning to blow up one of the swankiest hotels on the Las Vegas Strip. In the days before the explosion and apparent suicide, Matthew Livelsberger’s texts to her were playful, almost like a child with a new toy. “I rented a Tesla Cybertruck. It’s the s***,” […]
This year, three particularly foul-mouthed and insulting young rappers named “Lil Jeff,” “Lil Scoom,” and “Ybcdul” recorded a song together. All three had been killed before the end of the summer. For anyone who pays attention to the underground rap scene, and the internet spectator culture that follows both the music and the violent crime […]
In viewing A Complete Unknown, I must admit to remaining mystified that rock biopics continue to get made at all in the wake of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, the hysterically funny and tragically underseen 2007 parody of basically every rockstar biopic ever made. Indeed, so comprehensive is its satire that the titular Cox […]
When a novel misses the mark, an opera sinks like a stone, or a Broadway show closes up shop, few care beyond the niche contingent conversant in the inside baseball of the respective art form. By contrast, when large-scale, grandly budgeted movies prove ruinously unprofitable at the box office, even amateur cinephiles find themselves doubled […]
A small plane crashed into a commercial building and started a fire in Southern California on Thursday, killing two people and injuring 18. The flight-tracking website FlightAware shows a four-seat, single-engine aircraft crashed about a minute after takeoff, but it is unknown what type of plane it was or whether those injured were in the […]
CNN began 2025 with its worst ratings for the network’s New Year’s Eve coverage in five years. According to Nielsen data shared with the Washington Examiner, the network’s 11 p.m. broadcast on Dec. 31, 2024, saw its smallest audience since 2019. CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live, which aired from 8:30 p.m. until 12:30 a.m., drew […]
The federal judicial policymaking body smacked down a request by Democratic lawmakers to refer Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to the Department of Justice over allegations he failed to disclose gifts and travel provided by a wealthy benefactor. In a trio of letters made public on Thursday, Robert J. Conrad Jr., the secretary to the […]
