Wouldja look at that, Vulture got a new podcast. We’re delighted to welcome the superlative music show Switched on Pop and its hosts Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan to our digital shores. Today they kick off their Vulture tenure with a look at the Weeknd’s megahit “Blinding Lights.” After you’ve listened (… and subscribed?), you can enjoy their vast back catalogue.
This article originally ran on February 2, 2021. It has been updated and republished following The Weeknd’s Super Bowl halftime show performance.
The View From Home As coronavirus continues to spread, Vulture is speaking to filmmakers across the globe about how they are coping in a socially distanced world. The View From Home As coronavirus continues to spread, Vulture is speaking to filmmakers across the globe about how they are coping in a socially distanced world. The Selah and the Spades director isn’t expecting a “yes, the revolution has arrived” moment — but she is feeling a lot of hope.
Architecture and classical-music critic Justin Davidson is a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York. Architecture and classical-music critic Justin Davidson is a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York. Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár. The movie Tár opens with an unlikely dramatic gambit: the recitation of a résumé. Lydia Tár, played with bristling confidence by Cate Blanchett, is being introduced at a public conversation.
Radio DJ Art Laboe died at the age of 97 from pneumonia on Friday night, according to a spokesperson for his production company Dart Entertainment. Last week, he hosted his final radio show, The Art Laboe Connection Show, which was broadcasted on Sunday night. Laboe has been credited with helping end segregation in Southern California by hosting live DJ shows that attracted people of all races to attend.
The front woman on what went wrong with Paramore, Warped Tour war stories, and her new solo life. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Hayley Williams. Photo: Lindsey Byrnes This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Hayley Williams. When Hayley Williams started the pop-punk group Paramore at 15, all she wanted was to be in a band with her best guy friends.
Jenny Slate in Stage Fright. In a documentary segment during Jenny Slate’s new Netflix special Stage Fright, she talks about the premise of the special’s title. In a moment filmed backstage a few hours before her set begins, she explains that she gets terrible stage fright. “I don’t earn the love unless I give something beautiful that goes out,” she says. “My stage fright comes from a deeper thing, of exchange.
Tab Hunter. Had you but known it was on the table, you’d constantly be demanding more news about Tab & Tony, the upcoming drama about the secret romance between actors Tab Hunter and Anthony Perkins. Secret, of course, because the pair’s love affair coincided with both Hollywood stardom and the 1950s and ‘60s. J.J. Abrams and Zachary Quinto will reportedly produce the film, which is based on Tab Hunter’s personal account of his relationship with the Psycho star, who passed away in 1992, and draws from his 2005 memoir Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star.
Trent Crimm: The Independent is now Trent Crimm: The Author. Despite seemingly departing the Ted Lasso universe at the end of season two after revealing his sources for a bombshell story about Ted’s panic attacks, the follically gifted writer is now back in a big way: He’s shadowing AFC Richmond and everyone around them to write a book about the club’s season. (It’s also convenient, since, as Ted reminds him, there’s “a big old Ziploc bag full with your hair-ties down at lost and found.
On the heels of the publicity-garnering Lea Michele–Dianna Agron GQ schoolgirl shoot, Glee’s Jane Lynch is rocking merely a leopard-print bathrobe in More magazine this month, surrounded by chiseled, mostly naked men. The actress also opened up about her stint in twelve-step meetings for alcohol abuse: “Had I known I’d be telling my story over and over again, I would have made it a lot better.” Sue! [More via Movieline]
comedy review Mar. 26, 2024 Jerrod Carmichael Makes the Camera His GodIn his HBO series, the comedian needles at whether the spectacle of his own personality and pain eclipses his ability to care about others. By Kathryn VanArendonk
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