How Jai Paul Reshaped Popular Music

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Jai Pauls 2007 demo version of his songBTSTU(featuring production from his brother, Anup A.K. Paul) first caught fire in 2010, when music blogs discovered it on his MySpace page. Dudes on some shit, concluded theFader. It was a fluid era of dissolving hierarchies. Pauls weird, wonderful single fit right in. BTSTU received an official release on XL Records in April of 2011, titled BTSTU (Edit)....

February 26, 2019 · 4 min · 791 words · Michael Schwartz

HowPEN15Achieved Its Pitch-Perfect, Early-2000s Middle-School Aesthetic

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The secret toPEN15ssuccess lies in its precision. Thats in no small part thanks to pitch-perfect world-building from production designer Grace Alie. A smattering of eyesore wall decor (from boy band collages to Got Milk? We pulled from actual details of growing up in that era. The girls homes are really where the set design hits its sweet spot....

February 26, 2019 · 2 min · 405 words · Dakota Mejia

Jane Leeves Joins Hannah Simone’s ABC Pilot

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Jane Leeves will be playing Hannah Simones mother in the as-yet-untitled comedy pilot. Leeves will play Simones mother, Catherine. She is effusive, warm, a bit batty and flamboyant, but well-meaning, according toDeadline. Then they just sort of stopped. Anyway, Leeves recently co-starred inThe ResidentandHot in Cleveland. Sources Related Tags:

February 26, 2019 · 1 min · 64 words · Christopher Holloway

Janet Jackson Joins the Crazy Long List of Las Vegas Residencies

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Therell be all the usual works electrifying visuals! but, even better, a full 30th-anniversary celebration forRhythm Nation. Related Tags:

February 26, 2019 · 1 min · 34 words · Pamela Ibarra

Jordan Peele’sCandymanHas Found ItsHook-Handed Villain

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Theres a new hook-handed villain in Cabrini-Green. Well, its the same villain. Beware the man with the hook for a hand while youre out shopping for you artisan toasts, everyone! Related Tags:

February 26, 2019 · 1 min · 47 words · Andrea Mendez

Kacey Musgraves Covered ‘Como La Flor’ in Houston Because Anything for Selena

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Como se dice yee haw?! And, honestly, at this point, will we doanything for Kaceyssssss! Related Tags:

February 26, 2019 · 1 min · 32 words · Joseph Thompson

Leaving NeverlandIs a Chilling Indictment of Michael Jackson’s Legacy

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The documentary, whichairs on Sunday and Monday night, feels like a conversation-realigning milestone. Still, they speak. / My little one is here. How many little ones were there? Jacksons estate, which issuing HBO for $100 millionfor co-producing this documentary, insists there were none. Where were the parents in all of this? I have to take some of the blame for this, she recalls telling Wade....

February 26, 2019 · 1 min · 207 words · Donald Williams

Let’s Argue About the Preferential Ballot

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Green Book shows why Oscars need ranked choice voting. They do use it!https://t.co/cewFM6lrqb OK. Green Book shows Oscars shouldn’t have ranked choice voting. That has the effect of letting anyone read whatever they like into the results. SinceGreen Books win, the preferential ballot is back under the microscope. What would the past decade of Best Picture winners have looked like without the preferential ballot?...

February 26, 2019 · 1 min · 101 words · Lindsay Wright

Michael Mann and Author Elaine Shannon on the Terrifying New Face of International Crime

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. When the filmmaker Michael Mann announced that he wasestablishing a publishing imprintseveral years ago, some were perplexed. Why would a director known for his use of cinematic style want to become a literary mogul? Elaine, when did you start following the story of Paul LeRoux and why? Hes totally revolutionizing what we think of as organized crime....

February 26, 2019 · 9 min · 1762 words · Joseph Adams

Offset Says Migos Wasn’t ‘Feeling’ ThatSNLSketch

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. We aint arguing, he said. I aint really feeling that. We werent feeling it. Theyre talking about this stuff; theyre not shying away from it. I think you need both things. Related Tags:

February 26, 2019 · 1 min · 48 words · Mark Romero

Remembering Brody Stevens Through One Brilliant Stand-up Set

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. How dangerous that is. Weve seen the effects too many times. This past Friday, the world learned that comedianBrody Stevens died. The comedy communityreels and remembers. This weeks feature is from a set he did at JFL in 2013. His edge shines through, in all its peaks and valleys, and so does his vulnerability. Its that vulnerability, that unobstructed connection with his audience, that made Brody so transcendent on stage....

February 26, 2019 · 1 min · 126 words · Teresa Wolfe

Roswell, New MexicoRecap: The Way We Were

Roswell, New Mexico Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Weve got a whole lot of answers, and a whole lot of new questions to unpack tonight. But first, a flashback to 2004, and the night when Isobels blackouts began. Cut to 2008, where everybody is living their best lives and embracing their best accessories! Max and his surgically attached backwards baseball cap!...

February 26, 2019 · 2 min · 343 words · Richard Rodriguez

The Real Housewives of Beverly HillsRecap: Bahama Mamas

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. We interrupt your regularly scheduledRich Women Doing Thingsrecap for this paid television announcement. No, Rihanna is from Barbados, which is not the Bahamas. But dont worry, all of the fountains shoot high enough that the droplets reach the stratosphere. Doesnt that sound like paradise? I appreciate Erikas dedication to the character of Erika Jayne....

February 26, 2019 · 3 min · 464 words · Matthew Lewis