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How Galaxy Gas became the defining highlight of the Brainrot era

Regardless of what the company says, it is clear that consumers have recognized the potential for abuse of these products. The company hasn’t adjusted its bright, colorful branding either. Smoke store websites in states across the country list Galaxy Gas…

Yes, that’s how “Joker: Folie à Deux” ends.

This story contains major spoilers for Joker: Folie à Deuxincluding discussion of the ending. Would you like to hear a joke? The end of Joker: Folie à Deux is probably what the audience will be talking about the most. Directed…

OMG, the New York Mets really did it

There was more than enough in this sequence to make Mets fans think they had used up all their fairy dust and that the roof was about to collapse. But they just kept going, first with a sac fly by…

“Megalopolis” opens this weekend. You have to see it for yourself

Last week I attended a preview screening of a bold, epic new film about a temperamental and uncompromising architect and the narrow-minded forces arrayed against him: The Butalist, Directed by Brady Corbet, it stars Adrien Brody as a ghostly, Bauhaus-trained…

How ‘The Substance’s’ effects team pulled off Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley’s monster makeovers

To become “Gollum,” Moore endured up to seven hours of makeup, with the upper half of her body covered in prosthetics, from hunchback to long fingers to sunken facial makeup. On screen it looks truly grotesque: veins snake across her…

The best and worst moments of the 2024 MTV VMAs

The MTV Video Music Awards are celebrating their 40th anniversary this year and are full of nostalgia. Lots of old rappers, for example, at a show opened by Eminem and closed by LL Cool J to celebrate Def Jam’s 40th…

Jalen Milroe leads Alabama into the post-Saban era

Jalen Milroe remembers thinking it was going to be a normal day at Alabama football headquarters. It was early January, and the Crimson Tide had just lost their College Football Playoff semifinal game to eventual national champion Michigan. On a…

Photographer Mitch Epstein captures the majestic beauty of ancient trees

Bigleaf mapleOlympic National Park, Washington, 2021 Photo: Yancey Richardson Gallery and Steidl Verlag Trees hundreds or thousands of years old are more than just majestic and mysterious specimens. “Pristine forests do the hard work of sequestering carbon,” explains acclaimed fine…