Country Music Was Designed for a Bad Year Like This

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Times get tough, andcountry music gets tougher. The new album challenges the current status quo. 21st Century USA cruises through a dying town pointing out the spoils of capitalism impoverished locals cant afford. Heroin Again laments a spike in intravenous drug use; Babies in Cages decries injustice at the nations border. The answer never comes....

May 22, 2020 · 1 min · 143 words · Stephanie Watts

Gawker Might Get a Second (Third?) Life As an Apple TV+ Show

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Jefferson began work in television after Gawker, on shows that includeWatchmenandSuccession. The website wasbought by Bustle Digital Groupin a 2018 bankruptcy auction. They attempted to resurrect the site, the myth, the legend last year to disastrous results. Its only two reporters quit in response to former editorial director Carson Griffiths alleged offensive remarks. BDGlaid off the rest of the staffa few months later, with Griffith leaving one month after that....

May 22, 2020 · 1 min · 92 words · Carrie Brown

HomecomingRecap: A Puzzle Within a Puzzle

Homecoming Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The current season is all mystery. Her vulnerability is clear, and its adding plenty of tension as she throws herself into a dangerous situation. Shes a puzzle within a puzzle. Audrey is pleading with Alex to pick up the phone. (They might not haveAirwolfin jail.) Is this an authentic romance or a ruse? Who was her companion at Skins that night?...

May 22, 2020 · 1 min · 148 words · David Ramirez

HomecomingRecap: Human Resources

Homecoming Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. But lets start with Alex, who wasnt a part of the show at all until now. Alex claims she wound up quitting and booking a one-way trip to India that changed her life. This entire spiel, we learn shortly afterwards, is a ruse designed to shield the boss from harm. Who wouldnt sympathize with someone who wakes up in the middle of a lake with her memory erased?...

May 22, 2020 · 2 min · 227 words · Alyssa Garrett

Hong Chau Doesn’t Need Your Approval

I dont task myself with changing minds or being understood anymore. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Youre not really supposed to notice Hong Chau in the first season ofHomecominguntil its too late. In the second season, she becomes the protagonist scaling the corporate ladderthe anti-hero of her own story. Casting Chau was always a longer play for the show. Shes supposed to be overlooked, not just by the characters but by the viewer....

May 22, 2020 · 5 min · 879 words · Brandon Robinson

I Am Obsessed With a Tragic Hidden Backstory inAnimal Crossing

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Like many people, Im a relatively new (but dedicated! I shake all the trees on my island daily, hoping to find cute new furniture. I water my flowers; I chat with my animal villagers. Giving them any kind of story is pure projection, an act that happens entirely in the players mind. Inside The Able Sisters, its different....

May 22, 2020 · 2 min · 324 words · Rebecca Hunt

InAKA Jane Roe, a ‘Deathbed Confession’ Was Never the Plan

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. I was curious about how she identified, where she saw herself on the spectrum. He quickly found out. That turned out to be the least of McCorveys surprises. She had all these questions about me. My answer was none. I think because of that, she agreed to meet up, and we started hanging out. We spent time in Texas driving around, and going to pick up barbecue a few times....

May 22, 2020 · 3 min · 571 words · Calvin Callahan

Jane Fonda, Morgan Freeman, and Jane Goodall JoinArtists United for AmazoniaBenefit Livestream

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May 22, 2020 · 1 min · 17 words · Ashley Dominguez

Lana Del Rey Defends Controversial Post, Is a Harbinger of ‘New Wave/3rd Wave’ Feminism

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. There is a widely recognizedthird wave of feminismthat kicked off in the 1990s, but her portent still stands. it’s possible for you to read her full post below.

May 22, 2020 · 1 min · 43 words · Lindsey Baxter

The 8 Can’t-Miss Video Games of Summer

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. On the video-game calendar, summers are for surprises. Many studios, like the rest of us, are still trying to figure all this out. A sci-fi shooting/strategy hybrid,Disintegrationis the latest attempt to shake up one of gamings most stalwart genres. (Get it?) The supernatural, of course, isnt far behind. (July 17) ThePaper Mariogames have been in a bit of a slump....

May 22, 2020 · 1 min · 129 words · Alexander Whitney

The Mask of Zorro’s Martin Campbell on the Secret to Making a Great Romantic Action Epic

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. We need to talk more about Martin Campbell. The New Zealandborn director successfully helped reinvent James Bond twice, with 1995sGoldenEyeand 2006sCasino Royale. The Mask of Zorrowas a film with a long development history. I turned it down three times. I think Robert Rodriguez was the original director, and Banderas was cast already. And three times I said no....

May 22, 2020 · 7 min · 1367 words · Daniel Tyler

The Painter and the ThiefIs a Sexy, Strange Not-Quite-Love Story

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. I dont mean to besmirch the spiritual connection between Barbora Kysilkova and Karl-Bertil Nordland with unwelcome carnality. There was no way I could see the thief in this guy. I just saw purely, like, a naked soul. As the film goes along, however, it starts to feel essential to the pairs continuing coexistence. They fit together like puzzle pieces that have been dinged but not fatally damaged....

May 22, 2020 · 1 min · 98 words · Mary Wells

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 +2Forever Altered the Course of Gaming and Music

The remake arrives in September. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. But it was the 90s that blew the lid off the scene. The game paired airtight mechanics with creative level design and a soundtrack full of killer punk and alt-rock jams. A blueprint was drafted that would alter the course of both gaming and music. Theres also songs that date the firstPro Skateras a document of the awkward late 90s....

May 22, 2020 · 1 min · 132 words · Robert Barry