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cord cutters: a live story
Mar. 10, 2024
How to Pick a Live-TV Streamer That Can Kill Your Cable Bill Whether you want the Oscars, news, sports, or just to lazily channel surf like the old days.
appreciations
Dec. 6, 2023
A Lifetime of Norman Lear Rita Moreno, John Amos, Valerie Bertinelli, and other collaborators reflect on working with the 101-year-old TV legend.
eyes on the ball
Sept. 25, 2023
anonymous in hollywood
July 27, 2023
How Much We Make in Hollywood As the strike stretches on, 19 writers, actors, and crew members shared their hopes, fears, frustrations — and salaries.
superlatives
June 26, 2023
Rivers Cuomo on the Best, Worst, and Most Misunderstood of Weezer “That’s a totally unique song. It’s like what only a cool rock band could do.”
vulture lists
Feb. 28, 2023
vulture investigates
Aug. 22, 2022
Is Tom Brady MIA From the NFL Because of The Masked Singer ? An Investigation Let’s not forget that a pro footballer appearing on The Masked Singer isn’t a new thing.
rev up your engine
May 25, 2022
How Top Gun ’s Famous Volleyball Scene Led Kenny Loggins to the ‘Danger Zone’ The story behind the film’s hard-charging anthem, as told by the king of ’80s soundtracks.
appreciations
May 9, 2022
Gilbert Gottfried, Remembered by Those Who Knew Him “He was not a negative person in any way, shape, or form. He was a great spirit. He was so unique. That’s the word for Gilbert: unique. ”
hardest things
Apr. 27, 2022
The Hardest Sequel I Ever Wrote The writers behind Blade Runner 2049, Batman Returns, the John Wick sequels, and more on their toughest franchise gigs.
coachella 2022
Apr. 18, 2022
The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of Coachella 2022 From Harry Styles’s Shania Twain cameo to … a metal version of the Simpsons theme?
coachella 2022
Apr. 15, 2022
Ring in the Olympics With These 16 Classic SNL Sketches Featuring John Belushi, Nancy Kerrigan, Jennifer Lopez, and expert commentator Leslie Jones.
vulture lists
Jan. 21, 2022
12 Meat Loaf Stories That Proved He Lived One Hell of a Life Warning: The late Meat Loaf was known to embellish a story or two.
hear to please
Dec. 20, 2021
Inside the Extremely Unfunny War Between Comedians and Spotify “For them to then pull down our work, it’s so nasty. It’s so corporate. It’s so ‘F - - - you.’”
Okay, Now Who Will Award Jon Batiste for His Musical Talents on Colbert ? In the wake of his Grammy-nom sweep, here are some of his best musical moments on the late-night show.
becoming bill
Oct. 21, 2021
How Impeachment Transformed Clive Owen Into Bill Clinton “I have a memory of Clive in his full Clinton prosthetics chasing me down a hallway of the West Wing set because he was so excited.”
20 Times Norm Macdonald Was the Best TV Guest Featuring classic clips from Letterman , Conan , and more.
fall preview 2021
Sept. 3, 2021
79 New Albums We May or May Not Hear This Fall Also, meet your new festival season. Dress accordingly.
vulture lists
Aug. 24, 2021
14 Charlie Watts Stories That Prove He Was the Rolling Stones’ Rock Like that one time he punched Mick Jagger for calling him “my drummer.”
Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen, Together, Hopefully Forever The rock powerhouses on their fast friendship, first song as a duo, and future.
Titus Welliver on Bosch ’s Last Chapter — and Harry Bosch’s Next One “The beauty of the character is that he’s consistent. He stays the same, because he’s a bit of a dinosaur, so he can only evolve so much.”
appreciations
June 24, 2021
A Tribute to ‘Good King’ Conan Twelve comedians reflect on O’Brien’s incredibly influential late-night legacy.
The Hardest Mare of Easttown Scene to Film Series director Craig Zobel breaks down why the shocking end to episode five took two sets and three days to get right.
superlatives
May 26, 2021
Jason Isbell on His Best and Most John Prine–Borrowing Work “Back then I was thinking, Man, I’m about to blow these old fuckers away .”
How to Un-Cast an Actor When an Army of the Dead star got called out, director Zack Snyder decided to scrub him from every scene — and swap in Tig Notaro.
Remember the Office? A look back at 150 years of cubicles, corner offices, all-nighters, and the holiday party.
the gold rush
Apr. 22, 2021
The Hardest Ending I Ever Wrote, As Told by Six Screenwriters Ahead of this weekend’s Oscars, we asked Sofia Coppola (On the Rocks ), Darius Marder (Sound of Metal ), and more about landing the proverbial plane.
vulture lists
Apr. 20, 2021
A Final Conversation With Anne Beatts A week before her death, the original SNL writer still had too many stories to tell.
The Hardest Day on the Set of Nobody To make a fight scene on a city bus as realistic as possible took true strategizing. Director Ilya Naishuller tells us how he made it happen.
beat for the gods
Mar. 9, 2021
8 Comedians Break Down Their Favorite Stand-up Closer Ever Featuring jokes by Gary Gulman, Maria Bamford, Dave Chappelle, and more.
COVID Didn’t Kill Live Comedy — It Drove It Underground After Governor Cuomo classified live comedy as not “essential,” some NYC club owners decided to roll the dice.
how everything works
Dec. 4, 2020
How Sound of Metal Reimagined the Silence in Hearing Loss Sound designer Nicolas Becker looked to stethoscopic mics, fetal memories, and a centuries-old school for the deaf in France.
how everything works
Nov. 17, 2020
9 Engineers on the Hardest Song They Ever Mixed Music-industry veterans on the tracks that were tough to crack.
scary stuff
Oct. 29, 2020
Unsolved Mysteries’ 10 Creepiest Cases, According to Its Co-CreatorTerry Dunn Meurer guides us through the spontaneous combustions, random murders, and unexplained disappearances that still haunt her.
Who’s Who in Borat 2 : A Guide to Every Notable Cameo All the characters, normies, and public figures in the order they appear in Sacha Baron Cohen’s Subsequent Moviefilm .
Run the Jewels Can Tell You the Exact Moment 2020 Went to Crap Now allow Killer Mike and El-P to make it right, performing RTJ4 for the first time on Adult Swim to run the vote.
superlatives
Sept. 30, 2020
Thurston Moore on the Obscure Sonic Youth Songs He Loves the Most Plus, playing with Iggy Pop, advice from Alan Vega, and the book he “probably will publish at some point in 2021.”
coronavirus
Sept. 22, 2020
Desus and Mero Are Proud to Be the New Susan Lucci They say their 2020 Emmys snub is “very on-brand.”
NXIVM Went After ‘the Beautiful People’ A clip from this Sunday’s episode of The Vow breaks down how “successful, capable” people were lured into the NXIVM sex cult.
sanity check
Sept. 2, 2020
Angel Olsen’s Pandemic Sanity Routine Is Pretty Damn Inspiring Including her new friendship with an elderly widower, a growing fascination with moss, and her desire to become a private investigator.
What to Know About HBO’s The Vow and the NXIVM Sex Cult A guide to the docuseries’ main players and the organization’s inner workings, subsequent trials and convictions, and ongoing work.
What to Know About I’ll Be Gone in the Dark and the Golden State Killer A guide to Michelle McNamara’s investigation, the hunt for the Golden State Killer, and how he was finally caught.
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