hugs not drugs Feb. 2, 2010 Jeremy Renner: The Anti-Taylor SwiftHis excitement at scoring his first ever Oscar nom is palpable. By Mark Graham ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeYqrS0ec2oq2acoqq0tHs%3D

Nancy Meyers Week It’s Nancy Meyers Week at Vulture. Why? Because it’s The Holiday season, and It’s Complicated. Something’s Gotta Give. Nancy Meyers Week It’s Nancy Meyers Week at Vulture. Why? Because it’s The Holiday season, and It’s Complicated. Something’s Gotta Give. Can a layperson make fancy baked goods high? Or is this a skill bestowed exclusively upon Meryl Streep in Nancy Meyers’s It’s Complicated? It is impossible to articulate every aesthetic sensibility of Nancy Meyers’s oeuvre by singling out one scene, but if it I were to attempt it, I would probably choose that scene from It’s Complicated, wherein Meryl Streep and Steve Martin get stoned and make chocolate croissants.

Death isn’t always terminal in Alex Pheby’s novel Malarkoi. Painful, yes. Gruesome, definitely. It’s just that, a lot of the time, it doesn’t quite stick. A main character is killed by his double, who then becomes him. A girl suffocates to death in a tangle of people with cow heads, then wakes up again, “alive for no reason.” This book is the second in a trilogy called Cities of the Weft; in the first book, Mordew, a boy from the slums named Nathan Treeves is crushed down so small that he fits into a locket.

theater review Mar. 24, 2024 Becoming Brian Friel: Philadelphia, Here I Come!At the Irish Rep, early work by a future master. By Sara Holdren ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeZp7a0tIyrnKmdoqm8s8WMrZ%2BemaSav3A%3D

Its shows are aloof, even indifferent — and immensely listenable. Photo-Illustration: Vulture. Photo-Illustration: Vulture. Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. It’s hard to argue that there’s much fresh energy among news podcasts of late. The genre’s modern generation largely came of age across the Trump era, and it is striking how little it has evolved — both in form and in options — in the years since.

Hey, does your mom like nice things in which people treat each other lovingly and with a tender kindness? What? Well, this could not have panned out better, because it’s still Mother Day (in some places) so you have just enough time to send your mom this link to Kacey Musgraves’s sweet “Mother” music video. In addition to a montage of motherly moments, the end of Musgraves’s video features a … what’s the opposite of an M.

Likely too busy getting herself frequently arrested for the sake of our planet’s future, Jane Fonda is cutting back on the knives and syringes as she continues to live her best octogenarian years. That means: No more plastic surgery! Long may that endlessly playable Megyn Kelly interview reign! “I can’t pretend that I’m not vain, but there isn’t going to be any more plastic surgery—I’m not going to cut myself up anymore,” Fonda told Elle Canada in a new interview.

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Jesse Eisenberg, headliner of indie films like Adventureland and The Squid and the Whale, is not your typical zombie-movie star — in fact, he’s never even seen a zombie movie. So it’s a good thing, then, that Zombieland, out today, isn’t your typical zombie movie. Vulture spoke with Eisenberg yesterday about the film, its big surprise guest, and his upcoming role in David Fincher’s Facebook movie, The Social Network.

Maybe my elder-millennial roots are showing, but I still see YouTube as the omnipotent, defining digital deity of my generation. Whereas TikTok just makes me feel ancient, YouTube can — unlike its dystopian counterparts in the social-media stratosphere — legitimately inspire, urging me to make more, to create, to continue beyond the web series and viral videos that defined my own early career. And I know that we, as a people, are far beyond the Remember the ’90s?