The last time Brandi Carlile’s music graced Salt Lake City, none of us knew the turn history would shortly take. On Feb. 8, 2020, Carlile and her band dela took the stage at Vivint Arena, giving a performance that for many of us would be the last live show we’d see for a while — … Read more
Nathan Fielder brought “The Rehearsal” to new heights with this week’s episode, tackling the issue of raising a (fake) child in an interface household on his HBO social experiment series. Angela, the subject of the show’s primary rehearsal, addressed the episode’s heated religious discussions, as well as why she chose to exit her rehearsal, in … Read more
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped away from royal duties in 2020 and are now forging a new life together in the US with their son Archie, three, and daughter Lilibet, one. The couple now resides in the desirable Californian town of Montecito, Santa Barbara. Located on the state’s Central Coast, the small neighborhood … Read more
Warning: The following contains full spoilers for the Westworld Season 4 episode “Que Sera, Sera,” which aired on Aug. 14 on HBO. To read our review of last week’s Westworld episode, “Metanoia,” click here. With Westworld going so big with its robot apocalypse, and even bigger with the absolute end point for all humanity, there … Read more
Tessa Thompson in Westworld photo: John Johnson/HBO We end where it all began. All season long I’ve been positing that Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, and the writers’ room at Westworld were both rebooting and rehashing the thematic and storytelling threads of season one. Visually, we saw this every time “Christina” (Evan Rachel Wood) woke up, … Read more
photo: John P. Johnson/HBO As it had toit came down to Dolores and the Man in Black. Forget Caleb’s rescue. Forget Maeve’s death. Forget Bernard’s nine-million-step plan. Forget humanity, forget the Hosts, forget everything. None of it matters now. Westworld has swept away the old world more thoroughly and efficiently than the Man in Black, … Read more
Their Four Hearts Author: Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Max Lawton ISBN-13: 978-1628973969 publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Guideline Price: £12.99 telluria Author: Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Max Lawton ISBN-13: 978-1681376332 publisher: NYRB Classics Guideline Price: £15.99 Russian experiments with modernist literature ended around 1931 when Stalin wrote “idiot!” in the margins of a story by Andrei … Read more
1. During an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbertthe host asked Stranger Things star David Harbor when he realized the show was “gonna be big.” Harbor responded, “I was sure it was gonna be a complete disaster and a big failure.” He went on, “I remember when we were shooting, too, we would … Read more
Artist Hedda Sterne, to Leo. Photo-Illustration: by Preeti Kinha; Photos: Getty Late Friday night, action planet Mars enters mercurial Gemini, making the single-minded pursuit of your goals more difficult than ever. You’ll get distracted in the middle of your work, lose interest in new people quickly, or be tempted to change strategies at the smallest … Read more
Tawards the end of her new book, Beth Macy swaps journalism for advocacy. It’s a relief, in a sense. Few others are as well versed in America’s contemporary story of opioid dependence and the harm it has wrought. Macy’s previous book, Dopesick, charted the rise of prescription painkillers through the 1990s and early 2000s. It … Read more