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John Oliver slams CBS for putting Bari Weiss in charge

On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver launched a pointed critique of the recent decision to install Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News following the network’s acquisition of her media outlet, The Free Press. Oliver criticized Weiss’s journalistic track…

October 24, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

E Street’s Mighty Max on The Beatles’ earth-shattering influence

Legendary E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about how The Beatles “shifted everything” for him as a young musician and much more on “Everything Fab Four,” a podcast co-produced and distributed by Salon. Rock…

October 24, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Horror has always been about us

A lot has been written in recent years about a horror-film renaissance that doubled the category’s market share in the decade between 2013 and 2023, from 4.87% to 10.08%. Much of it has focused on the subgenre of so-called prestige…

October 24, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

“The Family Stone” is Diane Keaton’s tender onscreen goodbye

Before we meet any characters in “The Family Stone,” Thomas Bezucha’s 2005 holiday dramedy about a close-knit extended family meeting their prodigal son’s uptight new girlfriend for the first time, a cellphone rings. “This is Meredith,” a voice chirps, before…

October 24, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

We’re all living in Murdaugh Country now

Shortly after “Murdaugh: Death in the Family” hints at the crimes that landed Alex Murdaugh in prison for life, it makes a time jump back to one of their supposedly better days when his family was still on top of…

October 24, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Portland’s protest frogs are dead serious about absurdity

Down the street from ICE headquarters on the south Portland waterfront, a rainbow of costumes hung on a makeshift rack, a vertical banner with “FREE” in block letters attached. Available inflatables included a couple of sharks, a dinosaur or two,…

October 24, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Britney Spears says father of kids’ tell-all memoir trades “white lies” for cash

Britney Spears has responded to claims made by her ex-husband Kevin Federline in his forthcoming memoir “You Thought You Knew,” calling his account “extremely hurtful and exhausting.” In a statement shared on X, Spears wrote, “The constant gaslighting from [my]…

October 24, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

The real reason conservatives are furious about Bad Bunny’s halftime show

Soon after the NFL’s announcement that Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny would headline the Super Bowl halftime show, conservative media outlets and Trump administration officials went on the attack. Homeland Security head Kristi Noem promised that U.S. Immigration and Customs…

October 24, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Inside “After the Hunt,” the most provocative film of 2025

Following the premiere of “After the Hunt” at the 82nd annual Venice Film Festival last August, journalist Federica Polidoro sat for a junket interview with the film’s stars, Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield. The film, about a reported…

October 24, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Why living apart could be the key to staying together

For some people, it started with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, grew stronger with Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter, and has since been validated by Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor. For others, it was realizing that the key to…

October 24, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0