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Photo: Debby Wong (Shutterstock)Live Nation’s “Concert Week” is amusic-lover-on-a-budget’s dream: over 3,800 concerts all over the country for $25 a pop. From May 10 to May 16, you can catch many artists like Beck & Phoenix, Fall Out…

Image: Short CircuitMovies date themselves for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes what seemed great when we were kids looks silly to adult eyes. Other times the whys are more complicated—think Rambo III and The Living Daylights making heroes…

Outside of the 2007 indie hit Waitress, Keri Russell has never had the movie career she obviously deserved—no, a small part in Mission: Impossible III and a laughable cameo in the worst Star Wars movie (I said it) don’t cut it, and no one…

For decades, it has been generally agreed upon that while it may be a truly magical animated film, the racial politics of Disney’s 1953 classic Peter Pan are, uh, not great. If you haven’t seen it in a while, may I refresh your memory with…

Nineties pop culture nostalgia is powerful, and never more so than in these troubled times. And when looking back across the decades at the films released 30 years ago, its interesting to note how many have endured—and how many never got…

After two shows that delivered mixed results (The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi) and one that was arguably the best thing to come out of a galaxy far, far away since The Empire Strikes Back (Andor), Star Wars is returning to its OG…

Fire up the meme engines: Succession is coming back to HBO Max on March 26 for what we now know is its final season of corporate and familial back-stabbery. I don’t watch it because I find it too depressing, but I’m happy for everyone who…

Barney’s coming back, y’all, with Mattel announcing a new, animated update to Barney & Friends, the slightly unnerving 1992–2010 series. It’s a shocking thought, but kids who watched Barney back in the day might reasonably have kids at…

Keeping tabs on the TV shows you watch can be a chore—there are so many streaming services to balance these days that it becomes a mess trying to keep up with new series. While film fans have Letterboxd to track the movies they watch, there…

Most collaborations between unlikely musicians are weightless one-offs, buried in the middle of albums. They’re easily-forgotten, desperate bids for relevance—like novelty-songs that aren’t funny, like this Taylor Swift/T-Pain mash-up, or…