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In March, Netflix holds onto its unofficial claim as the best platform for new comedy specials. First up is comedy icon Chris Rock taking the stage in Baltimore, Maryland for the first-ever Netflix live streamed global event, Chris Rock:…

This week in puzzling online discourse, a subset of Gen Z is looking wistfully back on the era of the Motion Picture Production Code, also known as the Hays Code, a voluntary (well, technically) set of censorship standards Hollywood…

Black History Month is a great time to shout out some of the brilliant podcasts out there celebrating Black history and culture. (Which isn’t to say it’s  the only month we should be talking about them—far from it.) From conversations about…

I write a lot about updates, because they’re important—and fun. Between new features, bug fixes, and security patches, each update is an invitation to dive in and see what’s new. That isn’t really the case with Apple’s latest update,…

Listen to this clip of blues legend Taj Mahal playing a concert in Germany in the 1990s. The crowd is clapping along happily to “Blues with Feeling,” but Taj stops the performance mid-song.Read more...

When it comes to books, my policy is generally to make a point to seek out the ones people try to ban; they’re almost always worthwhile, at least to understand why their ideas are being suppressed. That’s true with movies too, but the…

Netflix is in some hot water with subscribers, to say the least. The whole dang internet is buzzing about the company’s plans to kill password sharing, and while it’s not clear how far they’ll really go to enforce it, its newly minted,…

The idea of a third Ant-Man and the Wasp got you down? Bored with the fourteenth spin-off of the third Star Wars movie? I’m here to praise, rather than bury, expansive multi-media universes, but Marvel, DC, Star Wars, and (to an increasing…

There’s something for everyone this week in the world of young people culture, whether you like post-apocalyptic drama, shaming creepy dudes at the gym, or pretending to be a wizard in one of them damn vidja games.Read more...

You can binge all nine seasons of Seinfeld as many times as you want, but you’ll never see another new episode again. That is, until you tune into Nothing, Forever a never-ending AI-generated spoof of the hit sitcom that just might melt…