Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 brings Cheech and Chong to war.
Egg prices are at near-historic highs in many parts of the world as Easter approaches, reflecting a market scrambled by disease, high demand and growing costs for farmers (AP video: Mike Householder)
To the best of our knowledge, no living human being has spent a greater percentage of their life on the cast of a TV sketch comedy show than Kenan Thompson. (Who, at 45 years old, has spent 26 of those years on the roster of one such series or another.) Most of that is Thompson’s legendary tenure on Saturday Night Live, of course, but it also stretches back to the many years he spent on Nickelodeon, most prominently on shows executive produced by Dan Schneider—one of the key subjects of...
Looking back 6 years later, there’s something almost bizarre about the existence, and success, of Paul Feig’s dark comedy thriller A Simple Favor. A $20 million movie making a nice $100 million return, based pretty much entirely on the concept “People might like to watch Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively tear each other (and the concept of mommy vloggers) apart”? In theaters, not streaming? What miraculous world is this? And yet, the film was apparently successful enough—both at the box office,...
Kristen Stewart’s Bella is never ever getting back together with Edward Cullen. On a recent episode of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, Stewart said she’s over Edward, but still has lover for Bella. “Let’s talk about Bella for a second,” podcast host Amanda Hirsch asked. “Do we not like her in retrospect?” “Do […]
If you've been watching the past few episodes of season 46 of Survivor, you probably have picked up on how it's become a bit of a broken record. The same tribes keep winning and losing. While that inspires lots of drama, it does get old. Will this episode finally deliver a change? Let's get into it.Before we get into that, just a reminder that all season long I'll be recapping every episode of Survivor 46. Make sure you subscribe to the Parting Shot podcast and my newsletter For the Culture for...
With dismal basic education and a bleak job market, private tuition offer aspirational youngsters the best shot at clearing government recruitment tests.
The Commons leader said official bodies should avoid using ' gender neutral language' in contexts where traditional words like mother and father would be more accurate.
Werner Herzog’s new memoir provides a look back on the magisterial and occasionally maddening career of a cinematic visionary.
Rose promised Jack she’d never let go at the end of James Cameron’s film, Titanic. And she lived up to that vow until recently, when the door that saved her was the top-selling item at “The Treasures from Planet Hollywood” auction, which ended Sunday. Heritage Auctions reports the iconic Titanic prop sold for $718,750, topping […]
It didn't take long for The Washington Post to revisit the history of "controversial poet" Francis Scott Key, whose namesake bridge suffered a devastating collapse in Baltimore. All eyes were on Charm City early Tuesday morning after a cargo ship crashed into a support beam of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Six construction workers who were on the bridge at the time are presumed dead and two were rescued from the Patapsco River. An investigation is underway. But roughly 24 hours later, The Post...
Diddy has spent over three decades at the pinnacle of hip hop