 Photo: Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP Georgia prosecutors shocked the hip-hop community in May 2022 when they claimed that YSL Records, the label founded by Young Thug, was a criminal street gang under the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Legal scholars and rap fans alike criticized the case from the start, which …
 Photo: Netflix/Everett Collection ’Tis the season to sit around the TV and watch all the new holiday movies and specials! Everyone needs background noise for wrapping presents or something to zone out in front of after a big holiday meal, and the streamers know how to get the job done. It’s a notably less-busy …
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 Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Time for the critics to shower love upon the most interesting and provocative films of the year (just for the movie stars to disregard and vote for Green Book two months later). Following the Gotham Awards on December 2, which counted A Different Man, Nickel Boys, and His …
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 Photo: Warner Bros./Everett Collection When YouTuber Anthony Po organized the Wonka-star look-alike contest heard round the world in October, he was slapped with a ticket that was far from golden. Po incurred a $500 fine for the unlawful gathering, but Timothée Chalamet’s team quickly reached out to help. “They offered to pay the ticket, …
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 Photo: Russ Martin/FX Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. So there are these vampires in Staten Island, right? And they’re invited to a vampire party. And so they get all dressed up in their vampire finest and go out to this event, and all the vampires in New York City are there. …
 Photo: Disney+ For as long as there has been Star Wars, there has been a consumerist element to its sprawling universe, because that’s what modern fandom is: buying stuff to prove that you like something. The new, aggressively Amblin-influenced Star Wars: Skeleton Crew takes that paraphernalia-as-personality quality a step further with a main character …
 Photo: Searchlight Pictures/Everett Collection This list is updated monthly with new upcoming television and movie adaptations of books. 2024 wraps up as an impressive year for page-to-screen adaptations. Directors and showrunners have drawn from contemporary hits (It Ends With Us), enduring classics (Frankenstein), and epic sci-fi sagas (Dune) for screen versions released throughout the …
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 Photo-Illustration: Mia Angioy. Source: Atlantic; Iron Works; Island Records; Mach-Hommy; Capitol; Epitaph; Parlophone This year was one big stress test that presented artists with a choice: Face uncomfortable realities or serve distractions to the audience. Pop music turned inward and looked backward while hip-hop weathered court cases and incalculable losses. Country struggled to reconcile …
 Photo: Bravo Hemophobics and white couch owners beware: You’ll be triggered the first half of this episode. It’s 11:30 p.m. and Davide’s blood is all over the couch after Gary drunkenly hit him in the face with a lollipop. Danni calls Daisy over, but the chief stew can’t — or maybe more accurately, won’t — deal …
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 Photo: Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal via Getty Images The GLOW of WHERE?! Betty Gilpin, the actress best known for starring in women’s-wrestling dramedy GLOW and bonkers AI masterpiece Mrs. Davis, is replacing Cole Escola in Oh, Mary! on Broadway. Escola, who wrote the show and has starred in it since it premiered Off Broadway in February, …
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