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Pitchfork changed music criticism with a single video of a chimp urinating in its mouth. Here’s how it came to pee

A deep dive into the "authorship" of the infamous Jet monkey-piss review and the early days of the influential indie music publication

Actress Molly Wryn gave author Max Evry a lost scene of hers from David Lynch's Dune, and we have your exclusive look at the fully restored clip.

Just in case you've been living under a rock somewhere, you need to know that the film Dune: Part Two will arrive at a theater near you this coming Friday, March 1, 2024. That would place its story about 10,000 years into a future envisioned by writer Frank Herbert in his famous 1965 science fiction novel, directed in this latest film incarnation, by Denis Villeneuve. I last wrote about Dune in late 2021 when Part One was released in theaters. The "Part One" designation surprised ...

When the ABC network combined family-friendly action with science ‘MacGyver’ was born, and quickly became a staple of ‘80s TV.

When the ABC network combined family-friendly action with science ‘MacGyver’ was born, and quickly became a staple of ‘80s TV.

When the ABC network combined family-friendly action with science ‘MacGyver’ was born, and quickly became a staple of ‘80s TV.

When the ABC network combined family-friendly action with science ‘MacGyver’ was born, and quickly became a staple of ‘80s TV.

Once called The Consumer Electronics Show, today CES would be better characterized as the consumer everything show

A true-ish story about the business we call show