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It was December in San Diego, the palm trees strung with tinsel in Ocean Beach. Pat Contri shuffled barefoot on the floor of his game room, black hair wet from the shower and curling above his eyes. He was in front of a wall of nearly 1,000 games for the Nintendo Entertainment System, the greatest […]

This is small of me, but I can’t help myself. Someone says they’re obsessed with the TV version of Game of Thrones—or The Expanse, Altered Carbon, The Shannara Chronicles, The 100, The Magicians, whatever. I tilt my head forward, peer over my nonexistent glasses, and inquire, with what I like to imagine is a sparkle […]

In 2016, RuPaul Charles told Nightline that he didn’t think that his work would ever be truly mainstream. At the time, his competitive-reality show RuPaul's Drag Race was airing on LGBTQ-focused cable network Logo, and the world's most famous drag performer still didn't think people took his work—or his show—seriously. "I haven't been accepted in […]

Click:hair service You’ve seen the video. Everyone on the internet has. A man sits in a cubicle and pounds his keyboard in frustration. A few seconds later, the Angry Man picks up the keyboard and swings it like a baseball bat at his screen—it’s an old PC from the '90s, with a big CRT monitor—whacking […]

Carrie Reid fell in love with the Olympics in 1992, watching from her childhood home in Kansas City, Missouri as Kristi Yamaguchi skated her way to a gold medal. At nine years old, Reid had already discovered she lacked any skill on the ice; six months of gymnastics lessons hadn’t unearthed any hidden talent; neither […]

In the week since Black Panther’s release, the movie has been lauded for every element imaginable: its surehanded direction; its cast of fully-fleshed characters that give new dimension to the Marvel Cinematic Universe; its cinematography by a trailblazing director of photography; its considered costume and production design; and above all, its vision of an Afrofuturist […]

The Merc with a Mouth is back, and he's making even more money this time around. Yes, friends, Deadpool 2 shot into theaters this weekend to the tune of $125 million at the domestic box office. That wasn’t quite enough to beat its predecessor's $132.4 million opening, but it’s still pretty damn good for an […]

No matter how magnetic Josh Brolin is when wearing a full face of CGI makeup—and the answer, it seems, is a surprising “more than you’d expect”—there’s no way that Avengers: Infinity War can fulfill everyone’s Thanos thirst. The character Brolin is embodying is almost too much for one person to take on. With that in […]

Of all the absurdities of Mark Zuckerberg’s more than ten hours of Congressional testimony this week, one moment of theater stands out. “I'd like to show you, right now, a little picture here,” Missouri Republican Billy Long said to the Facebook CEO. A staffer placed a large photo of two women behind his head. “You […]

Westworld watchers, we knew this moment was coming. The second season's third episode, "Virtù e Fortuna," opens not in Westworld but in an India-themed park. Where Westworld is an emblem of the colonization of Native American land, this park represents Britain's takeover of the subcontinent, and the racial-social hierarchy is clearly encoded: Women in saris […]