Running low on, uh, gasms? Smokey Robinson’s gotcha covered. On Friday, the 83-year-old soul icon released his new album Gasms, which opens with a repetitive track of the same name. While Justin Bieber famously sang the words yum and yummy a total of 55 times on “Yummy,” Robinson has even the Biebs beat. By our count, we hear gasm — including variations like gasms, eyegasms, eargasms, and even mindgasms — no fewer than 64 times.

Solange is on her way to the show. Dance is in the Knowles genes. Look at Beyoncé paying tribute to disco and house music in all their wonderful permutations on her recent album Renaissance. Or her sister, Solange, who’s taking things in a different direction and composing a score for the New York City Ballet. The NYCB announced the commission in a press release August 15, adding that Solange’s piece was composed for chamber ensemble and will be choreographed by Gianna Reisen, who in 2017 became the youngest choreographer to work with the NYCB.

Girl, you good? Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to 2025 we go! Disney’s Snow White, a live-action adaptation of the 1937 animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, has been postponed until March 21, 2025. Originally slated for March 22, 2024, the film, starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot, will be put in time-out for a bit. Still, Disney has given the masses something to salivate over now that they’ll have to wait for a year: a first look at the film featuring Zegler in the iconic Snow White dress with the seven dwarfs surrounding her.

How Everything Works Brought to you by How Everything Works Brought to you by Jennifer Lopez dancing to Fiona Apple’s “Criminal.” Hustlers’ entire mission statement is right there in its first few frames. “This is a story about control,” intones Janet Jackson, as fledgling stripper Destiny (Constance Wu) examines herself nervously in a dressing-room mirror, adjusting her bra straps and applying a wet pink lip gloss.

J.Law, pshaw! The only true Hunger Games fans are those of us who read the books long before everyone’s BFF won her Oscar. So, as The Hunger Games: Catching Fire prepares for Careers-level domination in the box-office arena this weekend, it’s time to head to the Training Center and brush up on your skills at the trivia station. In other words: Take our 35-question superfan quiz to test whether you truly have what it takes to emerge a victor.

Taylor Swift loves to beat an aesthetic into the proverbial ground, and never has that been more clear than in the marketing materials for folklore, her very first haunted album about knitwear and crying at trees. Taylor really went for it in the album’s accompanying merchandise and stills and first music video, which depict her doing all manner of ghostly woods activities, including but not limited to: sitting in a gigantic wheat field by herself, wearing the Babadook’s coat, doing her hair like an old-timeydoll, getting lost alone in a forest, frantically running away from somebody with a camera, standing precariously on rocks, and drowning.

An all-time great year for feature cartooning. Photo-Illustration: Franziska Barczyk ; Photos: Sony Pictures, Crunchyroll, Paramount, GKIDS Even last winter it was obvious that this year would be stacked with new animated feature classics. Fresh TMNT and Spider-Verse films were well on their way, as early as April, The Super Mario Bros. Movie Ground Pounded the box office and, in Suzume, a mythical worm threatened to do the same to Japan’s metropolitan centers.

Kristen Arnett’s latest book, With Teeth, is about — among other things — a middle-aged woman seeking intimacy. She’s a mom, her marriage is in a rut, and the hottest sex of her life is likely behind her. Arnett is an expert at capturing longing and sadness and passion — specifically how the three tangle together, how wanting someone sometimes means wanting a version of them that no longer exists.

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The cover of Harry Nilsson’s most critically acclaimed album, 1971’s Nilsson Schmilsson, shows a disheveled Nilsson wearing a robe, one hand in his pocket and the other holding a hash pipe. The album title and cover are perfect illustrations of the humor and apathy that encompassed Nilsson’s musical career. Noel Murray of the A.V. Club wrote of Nilsson: “Nilsson became the musician’s musician, admired for his wild arrangements, his insistence on satisfying his own muse before making his record label happy, and his willingness to mock himself, the culture, and every notion of showbiz propriety.