How Magneto Became Jewish

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The guards, flummoxed or terrified or both, knock the kid out, but hes not dead yet. But, oddly enough, this was not always the case in the comics from which the X-Men emerged. When Magneto was first introduced in Jack Kirby and Stan Lees 1963 Marvel comic bookThe X-MenNo. 1, Judaism was nowhere to be found....

June 5, 2019 · 3 min · 612 words · Diane Wood

Jane the VirginRecap: Man of the House

Jane the Virgin Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Chapter Ninety-Two feels likeJaneis once again on a stronger footing. Rafael lost it over the idea of getting Mateo tested, which never made much sense for his character. Jane wanted to get him tested anyhow. The Narrator montage explaining Mateos brain felt a little rushed! ADHD got boiled down to the Narrators trouble focusing theme, which felt oversimplified....

June 5, 2019 · 2 min · 308 words · Larry Nelson

Madonna Says Harvey Weinstein ‘Crossed Lines’ With Her, Too

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. So that was it. So when it happened, I was really like, Finally. I wasnt cheering from the rafters because Im never going to cheer for someones demise. I dont think thats good karma anyway. Weinstein is facing acriminal trialin New York City this coming September on sexual-assault charges.

June 5, 2019 · 1 min · 64 words · Julie Davis

Netflix’sTales of the CityMistakes Sweetness for Simplicity

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. In moments it is lovely. In other moments, though,Tales of the Cityfeels like a rough draft, both bloated and aimless. There mightve been more momentum pushing the series toward its ending revelations. Instead, pulling out the pleasures ofTales of the Cityrequires some patience, and some determined picking and choosing. None of the young people of Barbary Lane, straight or queer, start from a place of shame....

June 5, 2019 · 2 min · 267 words · Brian Taylor

Revisiting Larry Sanders’s Late-Night HostConfessions

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Confessions of a Late Night Talk Show Hostwas published by Simon & Schuster in late 1998. In May of that year,The Larry Sanders Showended its six-season run on HBO. But if Shandling was creatively exhausted, it does not show within the pages of the book. The book moves to Larrys upbringing in the 1950s in Mound, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis....

June 5, 2019 · 2 min · 327 words · Andrea Smith

Southern CharmRecap: Out on a Limb

Southern Charm Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Austen and Madison remain broken up, for now. You could tell that just by looking at Patricias not-quite-perfect blowout. Corollary hypothesis: IsBethany not Bethenny the dogreally a frustrated would-be lawyer trapped inside a canine body?) to deliver burritos to his hung-over, heartbroken pal. Austen, cloaked in his mourning sweats, wonders if he might have overreacted indumpingMadison....

June 5, 2019 · 1 min · 202 words · Michael Welch

The Handmaid’s TaleRecap: Martha, May I?

The Handmaids Tale Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Mayday, Gileads resistance, has kept June at a distance for two straight seasons now. This left viewers peering in from the outside, too. What do we know about them? Theyre shadow-dwellers out of necessity, but theyre effective. Theyre composed of Marthas, handmaids (like Ofrobert), Guardians, and possibly even higher-ranking Gileadeans. Oh, and June is essentially now one of them....

June 5, 2019 · 2 min · 323 words · Evan Baker

The Handmaid’s TaleSeason Premiere Recap: Mother Nature

The Handmaids Tale Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Should we even have moreThe Handmaids Tale? (Heres a vote forPEN15.) (Junes preachy voiceovers, however, are also back Im sorry baby girl, moms got work. Having June end up at Lawrences house may not be logical, but its a wise narrative move. Yet Nick is given a free pass. The mother in me teared up watching Serena grapple with her decision to let June and the baby escape....

June 5, 2019 · 2 min · 278 words · Andrea White

The Inside Story of the Local Florist Feuding With the New Sofia Coppola Movie

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. This is the story of Julia Testa andOn the Rocks. On the day, the minimalist black exterior of Testas flower shop went maximalist in protest. The awning hung a bright-pink placard: Movie shoots kill small business. Come in, were open! It was then, she says, that the movies P.A. began showing up at storefronts with money to compensate the local businesses for the upcoming disruption....

June 5, 2019 · 2 min · 324 words · Tamara Bush

The Real Housewives of New York CityRecap: Moons Over My Hammy

The Real Housewives of New York City Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. My worry was superfluous. Our favorite floozy is made from tougher mettle than that. In fact, everything that Sonja says after her fall is absolutely hilarious. Im gonna knock you out, repeatedly, like shes doing the worlds worstLL Cool J karaoke. Even in a blackout, Sonja is still the worlds best wing woman....

June 5, 2019 · 2 min · 396 words · Darrell Conrad

TransparentFinale Trailer: Maura’s Dead, Time to Sing

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. It will premiere this fall. Related Tags:

June 5, 2019 · 1 min · 22 words · Audrey Ortiz

WouldYouTrust Ja Rule With Another Music Festival?

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Fyre Festivalfounder andMagniseshype man Ja Rule is ready and willing to createanothermusic festival. motherfuckers who know money, are calling him up and begging for it. Ja, would you like to do this again? he mimes a phone call. Were the right guys. You had your fucking finger on the pulse of the people. Dont forget: He too wasbamboozled and hoodwinked!...

June 5, 2019 · 1 min · 91 words · Cindy Mccarthy

7 New Books You Should Read This June

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Each month,Boris Kachkaoffers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible. See his picks fromlast month. If the immigrants of the world were a nation, it would rival the U.S. in population. But unlike colonialism, migration benefits almost everyone, except for xenophobes and the faux-populists who exploit them. A modern immigrants life is never simple; neither are Dennis-Benns path-breaking stories....

June 4, 2019 · 1 min · 129 words · Allison Benitez