horror
Let's watch some horror movies
Drew and I drafted 31 horror movies to watch this October. Plus, has Phoebe Bridgers seen Obsession?
Culture & Media
Culture & Media
'Sinners' refuses to look away
Sinners isn't just a vampire movie that happens to be set in the Jim Crow south. Every major plot point hinges on America's failure to live up to the ideals of both the First and Second Founding: * nominally free blacks are shown working in conditions scarcely
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The human brain is not a computer
Don't make me tap the sign. Read to the end for two good sci-fi short stories and a trailblazing sci-fi movie from 1956.
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Super Bowl ads have always been terrible
The reason you thought Super Bowl ads were good once is that you were a child at the time.
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The linguistic tyranny of the 'doorbuster'
Let's end this stupid, made-up word's reign of terror. Read to the end for quick takes on the Gamecocks, The Penguin, and Mrs. Davis.
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The favorite songs prompt that's taking over Twitter makes no sense whatsoever
And yet I still took the bait.
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Where will we talk about sports in 2023?
Twitter is imploding, but so far its would-be challengers are coming up short.
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The State's swashbuckling founding editor and the Milkshake Duck
The son of a Cuban emigre, Narciso Gonzales could write like hell and fearlessly spoke truth to power, but there's a big, insurmountable "but."