Last night in Brooklyn, a collection of artists came together to pay tribute to Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hutchison, who died at age 36 in May, for Tiny Changes: A Celebration Of Scott Hutchison. The list of musicians, which included Julien Baker, The National’s Aaron Dessner and Kevine Devine, Death Cab For Cutie’s…

Tom Cruise is passionate about several things: the life-improving power of his maniacal space cult, the importance of nearly killing himself in every movie he makes, and, it turns out, that garbage TV setting we’ve cautioned you about before called “motion smoothing.”

Contrary to popular sentiment, there are good Christmas songs. The problem, of course, is that living through late November and all of December means that you will hear even the best tunes more times than any composition in human history is capable of withstanding. “O Holy Night” may do the trick once or twice; on…

Earlier this year, Conan O’Brien was made aware that both Detective Conan, a popular cartoon character, and Conan Town, a Japanese town renamed in the bespectacled crime-fighter’s honor, exist. Naturally concluding that the entire cultural phenomenon was based on him, he asked the nation of Japan to pay him 3 trillion…

Comedians, like all other artists and entertainers, often work in what can later be identified as distinct phases. Picasso’s Blue Period, for example, represents a dark time in the artist’s life following a dear friend’s suicide, while Dylan picked up the electric guitar after years performing stripped-down, classic…

The world seemed to return to normalcy last week when, after having informed Twitter “I’ve never eaten a Bagel in my life ...” to widespread disbelief, Ice-T appeared to have finally eaten and somewhat enjoyed his very first bagel in a commercial for a dating app with a keen eye for viral marketing.

Though Venom attempted to appeal to fans of superhero action in the trailers leading up to its release, the internet was steadfast in concentrating on one aspect of the movie that didn’t get proper promotion: the inherent romance between lead actor Tom Hardy and the oily, sentient demon goo he teams up with to become…

Bands break up for all sorts of reasons, many of which are personal enough that the general public doesn’t need to know about them. It is, after all, nobody’s business if a few musicians no longer want to write or perform together because they can’t get along. That’s the sort of thing that can be kept private.

Good news for anyone who’s ever wanted to feel like a First Lady traveling the country on a book tour: The Roots and The Tonight Show drummer Questlove has just shared the playlist he created for Michelle Obama to listen to while promoting her memoir, Becoming.

As if the twin scourges of populism and nationalism weren’t doing enough to drive the world’s people apart from one another, we’ve now learned that the promise of a global village is being further betrayed by, of all things, how people pronounce “Blink-182" in different countries.

One of life’s great archetypal characters is “that person you know who will eat anything.” Most of us meet this figure when we’re young, watching with equal parts delight and disgust as a playground kid gulps down a worm or eats a french fry from the floor of a mall’s food court. Others are fortunate enough to know…

Jim Carrey’s political art is not exactly packed with nuance. His drawings, which include “The Wicked Witch of the West Wing and Putin’s Flying Monkeys” and a portrait of Jared Kushner surrounded by flames with dollar signs in his eyes, are pretty much exactly what they say on the tin.

Back before your newfangled Spotifys and Apple Musics made endlessly streaming music extremely easy, people had to content themselves with listening to the built-in soundtrack when playing the same video game for hours on end. In the case of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, a series of mostly excellent skateboarding games that…

We’ll have to continue waiting for the Elton John biopic as its creators finish figuring out how to transfer the singer-songwriter’s charisma to Taron Egerton, an actor who is, notably, Not Tom Hardy. In the meantime, however, British department store John Lewis & Partners has provided a smaller recounting of the…

Kanye West, always one step ahead of the rest, has found an unlikely collaborator: Mark “World’s Oldest Boy” Zuckerberg. In the past, fans may have balked at his decision to work with Bon Iver or Katy Perry, but the results have been better than expected. Now, though, in a year when West has been working tirelessly to …

The modern world is full of important things to get upset about, not least of which is the future of global society’s only true lingua franca: the emoji. Testament to this is the ongoing war being raged over the fate of the little pictures deemed least important to our daily, smiley face-filled lives.

At first glance, Nirvana and Bobcat Goldthwait appear to have very little in common. But, think again and the similarities come rushing in: Both, for example, were important in shaping the direction of 1990s entertainment, both communicated their art through lots of growly sounds and raw onstage energy, and both, it…

Join us now for the tale of two cats, hungry not just for stinky salmon treats, but also the intellectual nourishment that comes from contemplating great art. Living in the Japanese city of Onomichi, this pair of feline critics has been trying to gain entry to a local museum only to be stymied, again and again, by…

Trumpy Bear—a stuffed bear decked out in the American president’s trademark too-long tie and floppy, spoiled mayonnaise-colored hair—is impossible to understand. Though we assumed that it had retired to the den of a shipping warehouse forevermore after first appearing in a disorienting commercial last year, the plushy…