Solange, the pop artist responsible for 2016's neo-soul masterpiece A Seat At The Table, is the subject of a fascinating, far-ranging new profile in The New York Times. The piece explores her early albums and recent forays into performance art, but it also contains a juicy promise for fans: Her new album is not only…
On a day when the Senate is hotly debating a lifetime Supreme Court seat for a right-wing ideologue appointed by a guy Stephen Colbert accurately described as “a former reality star and unindicted co-conspirator,” some late-breaking news wound up hijacking much of the late-night hosts’ monologues. That would be the…
Several decades into his career, Norm Macdonald remains one of the most enigmatic forces in stand-up, a comedic institution whose actual resume—a few years on Saturday Night Live, several failed sitcoms, and a handful of poorly attended movies—belies how beloved he is by comedy nerds worldwide. Macdonald is currently…
Over the course of his brief political career, Donald Trump’s tactics have been generously called “thuggish.” His puffed-up bravado and thinly veiled, clumsy threats directed at opponents are like cheap imitations of the mobster characters of classic cinema. As a citizen it is, to say the least, embarrassing.…
On Monday’s Late Show, Stephen Colbert asked New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet if noted Times critic and foot-stamping baby-man Donald Trump has ever called him personally to complain about the paper’s coverage. “Yes,” responded Baquet succinctly, before admonishing the curious Colbert, “But I’m not going to…
Though the world may not appreciate hard-working journalists enough, we can always count on Hollywood to highlight important stories about the power of the press, like with Spotlight and The Post just in the last few years. This week, Annapurna Pictures and Plan B have announced another “journalists are the real…
Bumping himself up a little further from “some-math” to “polymath” this week, beloved parody songster “Weird Al” Yankovic has now added “New York Times crossword puzzle constructor” to his numerous list of titles. Working with the paper’s Eric Berlin and Will Shortz, Yankovic just became the paper’s latest celebrity…
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Today, in honor of International Women’s Day, The New York Times dedicated a substantial number of column inches to an area in which their publication has been lacking: Obituaries for women. As the new interactive feature notes, the Times has published thousands of obits since the paper’s founding in 1851 and “the…
Corrections on a news article are rarely ever fun; considering that they’re admissions that someone—probably multiple someones—fucked up on the way to bringing a piece to readers’ eyes, they typically try to walk the line between terse and apologetic. But not always; sometimes a mistake is so weird, or so delightful,…
Variety reports that The New York Times has canceled an upcoming speaking event centered on actor and director James Franco, in light of questions raised about his attitudes and behaviors toward women in the wake of this weekend’s Golden Globes. Franco was originally scheduled to give one of the paper’s TimeTalks…
The New York Times released the latest in an ongoing series of reports about sexual harassment in the American media today, this time targeting the culture at punk-rock news outlet turned Disney-partnering production giant Vice. The profile—which involved interviews with more than 100 Vice employees, past and…
Last Saturday, we reported that a New York Times profile on a polite and well-mannered guy in Ohio who happens to be a “Nazi sympathizer”—a.k.a. a Nazi—was met with an enormous backlash. Apparently, people in general just aren’t crazy about normalizing Nazis in high-profile New York Times stories that are ostensibly…
The New York Times briefly switched its motto to “All The News That’s Fit To Piss People Off” today, earning widespread ire for a profile on an Ohio white supremacist that seemed more happy to praise his good manners than condemn his hateful rhetoric. Responses to “In America’s Heartland, the Nazi Sympathizer Next…
Earlier this week, The New York Times opinion section really outdid itself in terms of the level of dog shit takes it deemed fit to print. In an op-ed titled “Contractors, Not Troops, Will Save Afghanistan,” Erik Prince argues that, instead of sending more U.S. military into the war-torn Middle Eastern country, we…
Earlier this summer, failed TV host/failed politician Sarah Palin sued The New York Times for libel, accusing the paper of using an editorial to connect one of her old campaign ads to the 2011 shooting in Arizona that resulted in six deaths and Representative Gabby Giffords getting injured. Palin’s ad had highlighted…
Preaching to a very scary, well-armed choir, the NRA released a video yesterday showing conservative talk show host and commentator Dana Loesch cutting what was basically a wrestling promo, slamming that “old gray hag,” The New York Times. But while we’re basically accustomed at this point to hearing a gun rights…
Throughout her 34-year tenure as a book critic for The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani has been a powerful guiding force in the publishing industry, both beloved and feared as she launched the careers of some authors and savagely eviscerated others. Positive reviews from Kakutani helped anoint David Foster Wallace,…
Recently, I discovered a coworker who just has an associates degree holding The New York Times. Instinctively, I understood that they were planning to use it to pee on like a crated Labrador, their two years of junior college slumming clearly leaving them with little working knowledge of indoor plumbing, or where to…
Former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has announced that she’s suing The New York Times for libel, accusing the paper of running an editorial linking an ad she ran in 2011 with the shooting of 18 people, including Arizona Representative Gabby Giffords. The editorial—which has since been corrected, but which…
