A Black Surrealist Finally Gets His Due

Jazz is My Religionruns through October 29 at Zurcher Gallery. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Or, as he put it, Im the Crispus Attucks of the Beat Generation. Beat poetrys Surrealist aesthetic, Joans felt, was also borrowed from Black culture. (The conceptual artist David Hammons eventurned it into his own film.) in charcoal on sidewalks and walls. Another avian piece from the following year busily overlays a label-heavy scrap of cardboard box with the Bird Lives!...

October 11, 2024 · 2 min · 297 words · Kristen Hopkins

DisclaimerIs a Flaccid, Pretentious Slog

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. No television series should be a seven-hour film. (Or eight, or ten.) Alfonso CuaronsDisclaimeris one such artifact. The series also doesnt follow through on any other thematic threads it shows flashes of interest in. In its current form, the whole thing just slogs on. Scenes play out with all the portent of a Catholic Mass....

October 11, 2024 · 1 min · 156 words · Elizabeth Bryant PhD

DisclaimerRecap: Tossing the Grenades

Disclaimer Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. It makes sense that Apple TV+ is releasing the first two episodes ofDisclaimersimultaneously. How easy is it to ruin a marriage? Stephen may have a flip-book of naughty photos, but his real weapon is his will to destroy. Young Catherine is in silhouette against the sea, toying with her hair. She notices Jonathan taking her picture and confronts him playfully, though he doesnt realize shes being playful....

October 11, 2024 · 5 min · 853 words · Craig Mitchell

Does Jessica Chastain Know She Won an Oscar?

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Look, airlines screw over many types of people. Young, old, rich, poor, redheaded actress, and non-redheaded actress. Thanks you @JetBlue for your $15.00 credit, she said in the October 10 post, perTMZ. My flight was $1,500 and the credit is 1/100 of the money I paid you. To clarify, it appears thatChastains flight did take off, but her in-air entertainment did not work....

October 11, 2024 · 1 min · 104 words · Matthew Smith

Esmé Bianco Calls for Criminal Charges Against Marilyn Manson

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Now, Bianco is still calling for charges against Manson. We are all still waiting for answers. Bianco called it a political move. Bianco claimed Manson first physically and sexually abused her in 2009 and said the abuse continued through 2011. He is releasing his first album since 2020,One Assassination Under God Chapter 1, on November 22....

October 11, 2024 · 1 min · 90 words · Pamela Taylor

From Here to the Great UnknownIs a Presley-Family Therapy Session

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. A few days later,she was gone. (Its a little unusual at first, though easy to understand in context.) Stories narrated regaled by Lisa Marie, spoken aloud into tapes, now have an audience. And sheabsolutelymeant to trap my dad. The Presleys and Keoughs exist within their own context. I dont know who I am, Presley writes....

October 11, 2024 · 1 min · 148 words · Katherine Spencer

Grey’s AnatomyRecap: The Petty Olympics

Greys Anatomy Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. That nurse over there? No offense, girlina, but whenarentyou? Lets start with Petty Person No. This is where Nick comes in. What can we say? Catherines gonna Catherine. Im just shocked she didnt make fun of Merediths button-down shirt and loosened tie combo. The thing about an episode like this is that you justknowthe biopsy wont go smoothly....

October 11, 2024 · 2 min · 395 words · Adam Gonzalez

In Praise of Bad Readers

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Last year, the British Palestinian novelist Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture at Columbia University. Everything we thought we knew has been turned on its head, and yet it all makes sense. But Hammad also has her doubts. Palestinians are familiar with such scenes in real life: apparent blindness followed by staggering realization, she writes....

October 11, 2024 · 3 min · 522 words · Kyle Lin

Jose Iglesias Is Already Working on His Next Mets Anthem

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. No, the G in the OMG remix didnt stand forGrimace. It started as a song and it became a movement and an anthem, Iglesias says. Im very humbled about it. We have another great song Im working on as my next single, he teases. Its another high-energy one that I want to get ready for 2025....

October 11, 2024 · 3 min · 478 words · David Mckinney

PachinkoSeason-Finale Recap: Changes

Pachinko Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Here we are at the seasons end. Can you believe that more than five years have passed since the first episode? For a few chapters, we were placed firmly in two time periods: 1945 and 1989. Its been a very, very long summer for Solomon. The Baek familys only priority was and could only be to survive....

October 11, 2024 · 4 min · 757 words · Jennifer Moore

Still Brat After All These Months

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. This review was published on October 11, 2024. At the2025 Grammy Awards, Charli XCXsBrathas won two awards. 2014 was a roller coaster for the U.K. pop sensation born Charlotte Aitchison. Mixtapes like 2017sPop 2argued that Charli is just as formidable of a curator as a writer. The discourse aroundBrathas been weird. It was bizarrewatching Charli initiates equateBratwith a 20-something party mentality when it is instead definitively caring-less-what-others-think-after-30 music....

October 11, 2024 · 1 min · 133 words · Mr. Marc Perez

TerrifierKills, Ranked by Nastiness

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. When trying to describe Damien LeonesTerrifierfranchise, its hard to go very long without using the worddisgusting. The kills also have to be seen (or heard). If a mutilated body just appears, you wont find it ranked here. And apologies to the Clown Cafe advocates out there, but dying in a dream doesnt count, either. Details matter, people!...

October 11, 2024 · 5 min · 902 words · Jamie Mcconnell

Texas Chainsaw MassacreMovies, Ranked

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. On October 11, 1974, Tobe HoopersThe Texas Chainsaw Massacrewas released. The story of Leatherface and his macabre home and family has been cemented into our imaginations. Of course, not all tales of pop cultures most enduring cannibal have been made equal. And it has all amounted to one of the most unstable long-running series in horror....

October 11, 2024 · 2 min · 261 words · Gabriel Snow