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Life and death at Balthazar

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Boom and echo

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Making babies

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Tribute to a true fan.

on how Steven Soderbergh's unusual diaries changed her relationship to pop culture.

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Steven Soderbergh's diaries

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Television’s shortcut to complexity. 

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 Good grief

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Postmodern pandemonium. 

sends off one of the weirdest shows on television. 

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Was Riverdale camp?

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Submit.

on whether we have lost something essential to the appeal of Grimes.

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The Capitulation of Grimes

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Money marketing moves.

on three summer movies—Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Sound of Freedom—as the barometers for Hollywood’s future.

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Narrative Summer

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Who's afraid of Imagine Dragons?

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Rocktimism

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Advertise here.

on “out of home” advertising meant to circulate the internet.

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Billboards still matter

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A problem of form.

on the sitcom and trans media representation.

Trans Sitcom

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