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Mar. 14, 2024
Saturn Really Is That Girl Kacey Musgraves, Ariana Grande, and SZA are all singing about the planet in 2024. An astronomer explains why.
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Feb. 7, 2024
Inside Scandoval’s $2 Million Real-Estate Battle Is Tom Sandoval “psychotic” for wanting to stay in the L.A. house and buy out Ariana Madix? We asked some experts.
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Jan. 22, 2024
Can You Also Sue Madonna? When a diva is late, there are damages.
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Nov. 21, 2023
Even Cinematographers Think TV Is Too Dark Folks behind the camera are just like us — eager to discreetly adjust their parents’ TV settings.
By Savannah Salazar
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Oct. 12, 2023
The Ivy League Doesn’t Want Frasier Crane The reboot finds him as a newly hired college professor. His real-life academic counterparts insist there’s “no way” it would happen.
By Devon Ivie
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June 13, 2023
A Urologist Answers Every Question We Have About Beau Is Afraid What would be the medical consequences of not ejaculating for your entire life?
By Nate Jones
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May 2, 2023
By Jason P. Frank
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Apr. 18, 2023
By Justin Curto
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Mar. 11, 2023
What Happened to the Gun From the Rust Shooting? The gun Alec Baldwin shot was apparently damaged and perhaps even destroyed. This is not a good look for prosecutors.
By Victoria Bekiempis
not shah-mazing
Feb. 17, 2023
What Will Jen Shah’s Life Be Like in Prison? “Every woman is going to try to get pictures of her so they can sell them.”
By Victoria Bekiempis
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Jan. 31, 2023
By Victoria Bekiempis
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Nov. 21, 2022
What Would Breaking Up Ticketmaster and Live Nation Actually Do? “They don’t have a Ticketmaster in Europe. They have competition, and ticket prices are lower.”
By Justin Curto
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Oct. 27, 2022
Grading Taylor Swift’s ‘Karma’ With a Buddhist-Studies Professor “I thought it was going to be crap, and then I listened and found myself humming it later.”
By Justin Curto
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Oct. 5, 2022
By Zoe Guy
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Aug. 19, 2022
By Victoria Bekiempis
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Aug. 11, 2022
Where Do Georgia Music Festivals Go From Here? Music Midtown in Atlanta was reportedly scrapped over a ruling that allowed guns during events on public property.
By Jewel Wicker
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June 16, 2022
Two Bonnaroo Lifers on How the Festival Has Changed in 20 Years “Grannies in their 80s come every year, so if they can be at Bonnaroo, I can be at Bonnaroo.”
By Justin Curto
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Mar. 9, 2022
Are Legendary Music Catalogues Really Worth the Money? “Commoditizing art never works out that well over time.”
By Devon Ivie
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Nov. 2, 2021
Dissecting Genesis’ ‘Jesus He Knows Me’ With the Coolest Pastor I Know “I probably took Phil Collins more seriously than he took himself on some of his songs.”
By Devon Ivie
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Sept. 21, 2021
Is Kacey Musgraves’s Star-crossed Really a Greek Tragedy? We Asked a Professor “Instead of the volcanic, old-school treatment of hurt and pain, we’re going for the poignancy of it.”
By Justin Curto
What Happens to Britney Spears Now? The wheels of justice to end her conservatorship might not move as quickly as Spears and her fans want.
By Claudia Rosenbaum
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Aug. 24, 2020
Is It Safe to Go to a Movie Theater Right Now? Dr. Robert Lahita attempts to answer all of our questions about cinema’s grand reopening this August.
By Jason Bailey
horny summer
Aug. 11, 2020
We Asked a Gyno About “WAP” Dr. Lauren Streicher weighs in on “macaroni in a pot,” touching that dangly thing that swings in the back of your throat, and more.
By Rachel Handler
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Mar. 12, 2020
Is It Safe to Go to a Concert Right Now? Everything you need to know before making that call.
By Justin Curto
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Mar. 5, 2018
By Ashley Weatherford
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Jan. 11, 2018
Making Sense of Radiohead’s Nonsensical Copyright Dispute With Lana Del Rey Lana claims Radiohead wants 100 percent of her song’s publishing. Radiohead says it never sued. What’s really going on?
By Dee Lockett
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Sept. 5, 2017
By Gwynne Watkins
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July 24, 2017
By Jennifer Vineyard
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July 19, 2017
R. Kelly’s Latest Legal Trouble, Explained With Kelly accused of running a “sex cult,” he could be headed for another legal battle.
By Dee Lockett
What Is the United States Doing in Syria These Days? A shooting down of an Assad-regime jet raises some questions, such as, are we about to go to war with Russia? How about Iran?
By Jen Kirby
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May 19, 2017
Where Do PWR BTTM Go From Here? PWR BTTM’s music has been yanked from streaming services over allegations of sexual assault. Can they get it back?
By Dee Lockett
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Apr. 18, 2017
Phew: Fate of the Furious ’ Car-Hacking Stunt Wouldn’t Actually Work Fate of the Furious fact-check: Even the best supervillain couldn’t pull off the movie’s car-hacking stunt.
By Hunter Harris
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Oct. 28, 2016
Could a Real-Life San Junipero Ever Happen? We Asked a Neuroscientist “It’s kind of this techno substitution for traditional stories of life after death. It’s just substituting a different mechanism.”
By Lila Shapiro
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Oct. 10, 2016
By Lila Shapiro
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Aug. 3, 2016
John Turturro’s Feet on Night Of : An Assessment “We use higher-tech treatment than Crisco on the Upper East Side of New York, anyway.”
By E. Alex Jung
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June 22, 2016
By Nate Jones
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Mar. 29, 2016
Why Trump’s Aide Got Charged With Battery There’s a key difference between assault and battery.
By Jen Kirby
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Feb. 12, 2016
It Might Feel Like -20 Degrees This Weekend The windchill is going to make an already cold weekend feel “crazy cold,” says a meteorologist.
By Jen Kirby
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Jan. 20, 2016
By Jen Kirby
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Oct. 2, 2015
How NASA Would Rescue Someone From Mars Could the thrilling rescue in The Martian happen in real life?
By Brian Feldman
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Oct. 2, 2015
By Jen Kirby
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July 21, 2015
How Exactly Did Ant-Man Make Michael Douglas Look So Young? Some stickers, lots of CGI, and multiple viewings of Wall Street .
By Nate Jones
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June 23, 2015
By Alice Robb
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June 19, 2015
Why Pixar Movies Make Us Cry Big eyes, full hearts, can’t keep it together.
By Alice Robb
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June 19, 2015
A Harvard Geneticist on Jurassic World ’s Science George M. Church is a leading light in the “de-extinction” efforts.
By Nate Jones
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Mar. 16, 2015
Where Does the Robert Durst Case Go From Here? “They’re getting closer to being able to arrest him in the disappearance of Kathleen Durst.”
By Ester Bloom
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Oct. 17, 2014
Ask a Juilliard Professor: How Real Is Whiplash ? “If Wynton Marsalis, who’s my boss here at Juilliard, did that, he’d be thrown out.”
By Sean Fitz-Gerald
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June 16, 2014
By Brian Feldman
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