An intimate love story set against the London fashion scene of the 1950s, Phantom Thread is as tastefully crafted as the haute couture its characters design and wear. But don’t be thrown by the immaculate embroidery.…
An SSD is the best upgrade you can give your older PC, and four different sizes of Crucial’s MX300 drives are down to their best prices of the year. We still haven’t gotten back down to 2015-2016 flash storage pricing, but these deals are about as good as you’ll get right now.
Another year, another crop of video game paintings doing their best to class up the place.
Man, Alex is being a dick, right?
“Mystery Man” isn’t just the end of The Crown’s second season, it’s the end of an era. This is the last time we’ll see Claire Foy, Matt Smith, and this group of performers before they regenerate into older versions of themselves for the next two seasons. (I’m not sure if any of the supporting players will be sticking…
Amazon has put together this Gold Box with some options to make next year’s holiday decorations a little more you, with options on Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, and a lot of Star Wars-themed ornaments, stockings, and lights, in addition to the traditional angels, stars, and all that good stuff. This deal will only last…
Zappos’ winter sale, 25% off Nike clearance, and a one-day Amazon networking sale lead off Tuesday’s best deals from around the web.
Here is a very partial roster of people who were wonderful on TV in 2017: Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Jessica Lange, Susan Sarandon, Carrie Coon, Elisabeth Moss, Laura Dern, Kyle MacLachlan, Sarah Gadon, Aubrey Plaza, Issa Rae, Rachel Bloom, Viola Davis, Pamela Adlon, Ted Danson, Alexis Bledel, Allison Janney,…
Adequate Man What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year? | Jezebel Jessica Chastain Calls the All-White Magazine Cover She Participated in ‘Sad’ | The Root Washington, DC’s El Centro D.F. Restaurant Removes ‘No Sneaker’ Policy, Fires Racist Bouncer After Black Man Is Denied Entry | Splinter Utah Newspaper’s Advice…
The new year is a great excuse to upgrade your home Wi-Fi, and Amazon’s here to help with a wide-ranging networking sale, featuring a variety of products from several manufacturers.
We tend to think of the present as mutable and past as inevitable. But, of course, it’s only by wading through the mutability of today that we forge the history of tomorrow. As a recent viral Tumblr post noted, “When people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing…
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, December 26.
Here’s what’s up in the world of television for Monday, December 25. All times are Eastern, ho ho ho.
Before we dive into “Paterfamilias”—which is a strong episode with some fascinating things to say about masculinity and fatherhood—let’s talk about this season of The Crown as a whole. With episodes devoted to Philip, Margaret, Tony, Edward, and even more obscure historical figures like Lord Altrincham, it feels like…
That’s right, little girl from the Trump ad, we said it. Happy fucking Holidays, a greeting that includes Christmas as well as Hanukkah (which, to be fair, is over), Kwanzaa, the Winter Solstice, Boxing Day, Festivus, Card Playing Day, National Flashlight Day, and National Bicarbonate of Soda Day. All your years of…
To be a person of color in America is to always be tangled between dueling worlds. What was different in 2017, more so than any other year in recent memory, was how those polarities were laid bare for everyone else to see.
Our weekly thought-starter asks you (and us) a simple question each week: What pop culture did you consume this weekend, and what did you think of it? If you have suggestions for AVQ&A questions, big or small, you can email them to us here.
Here’s what’s up in the world of television for Sunday, December 24. All times are Eastern, but Santa’s sleigh could really come by at any moment—even with NORAD tracking him, these things are unpredictable.
“You think that finding the answer to this is gonna restore the path of your own life. But how can it possibly do that if you’ve lost yourself along the way?”—-Eric Olson, Wormwood
Pam Warren—a.k.a. Pam The Funkstress, a.k.a. Purple Pam, a.k.a. the Turntable Queen—has died, Rolling Stone reports. Best known for her sonic collaborations with Oakland-area rap outfit The Coup, Warren was a celebrated hip-hop artist who also served as the personal DJ for Prince in his final months.
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…
