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Only Murders In The Building

The lovable "Only Murders" returns

Melanie McFarland
Howard Stern

In Roe's wake, President Howard Stern?

Alison Stine
Downton Abbey: A New Era

Progress, "Downton Abbey"-style

Jean Bentley
Sam Jay

Sam Jay: Let art and comedy be dangerous

D. Watkins
Jodi Sweetin

LAPD shoves "Full House" star at protest

Alison Stine
The Boys

What "The Boys" has learned from the MCU

Dan Selcke - Winter is Coming
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20 scientifically cute dogs

Michele Debczak - Mental Floss
Westworld

We're doomed. Let "Westworld" robots win

Melanie McFarland
Dark Winds

Don't call Zahn McClarnon an artist

Melanie McFarland
Bob's Burgers

The loving queerness of "Bob's Burgers"

Ashlie D. Stevens
Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual

Joel Kim Booster, radically transparent

Melanie McFarland
Elvis Presley

Was there anything real about Elvis?

Michael Bertrand - The Conversation
Marsha P Johnson

8 trans activist Marsha P. Johnson facts

Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner - Mental Floss
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars

What Drag Race's new rule teaches us

Lauren Piester
Protest sign displays "Goodbye Roe"

The young anti-abortion "foot soldiers"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Jenny Slate on being "Marcel the Shell"

Gary M. Kramer
J.K. Rowling

J.K. Rowling bamboozled by Russians

Kelly McClure
Flux Gourmet

"Flux Gourmet": food sounds & absurd art

Gary M. Kramer
Squid Game

Netflix is hardly doomed

Dan Selcke - Winter is Coming
The Umbrella Academy

The power of Umbrella Academy's Viktor

Melanie McFarland
Joy Behar; The View

What we learned from "The View" reunion

Joy Saha
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Colbert on Fox News targeting dog puppet

Joy Saha
P-Valley

All hail Uncle Clifford of "P-Valley"

Melanie McFarland
large printer format inkjet working

Are AI-produced images art?

Aaron Hertzmann - The Conversation

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