Police try to defend US capitol from Trump supporters who have breached the building. Drew Angerer / Getty Images The US Capitol was placed on lockdown today after Trump supporters broke through police barricades and stormed the building—an action that was encouraged yesterday by Trump himself. Congress, who were meeting to certify the electoral college […]
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The U.S. Finally Assembles a Team of COVID Avengers
Sorry, Better Business Bureau, “BBB” stands for Build Back Better now. BuildBackBetter.com The Biden-Harris campaign will chug ahead with its promise to “Build Back Better,” a confusing tagline that I always say in the wrong order. (Build Better Back? Better Build Back?) Over the weekend, the team added more details to its newly launched transition […]
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Animal Crossing Gets Real
The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s social media team has been teaching marine biology by playing Animal Crossing on their Twitch channel. Nintendo The Los Angeles Times published a great feature over the weekend about how Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Nintendo’s wildly popular (and cute) social simulation game, has “become the sort of dominating cultural touchstone usually […]
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Meghan McCain Rails Against Jeff Bezos, Says Essential Workers “Should Have Their Pay Doubled”
It would be nice to hear some more actual Democrats say the same thing YouTube Screenshot Following Meghan McCain’s pandemic rendezvous with leftism has become one of my pandemic hobbies. Last week, the heir of Arizona thought we needed to “start easing up” on rents, prevent stock buybacks, and make Jeff Bezos pay. Today, she […]
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You Can Now Stream SPLIFF—Our Cannabis-Themed Short Film Fest—Online!
I’ll be blunt with you: SPLIFF—our hilariously fun cannabis-themed short film fest—is my favorite part of the year. Premium stoner entertainment is flowering yet again. Witness the rise of High Maintenance, Broad City, and basically every TV show created for Viceland. And, most notably, The Stranger presented your new favorite film festival, SPLIFF Film Fest, […]
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Locally Made Missing Link Was a Box-Office Bomb… and Now It Might Win an Oscar
COURTESY OF LAIKA STUDIOS / ANNAPURNA PICTURES Early in January, everyone seemed to agree that Toy Story 4 or Frozen II was going to take home this year’s Golden Globe for best animated motion picture. Both of those Disney-backed films were beloved by critics and audiences, and Frozen II had just become the highest-grossing animated […]
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There Are Apparently Hundreds of Streaming Services. How Many Should We Care About?
The homepage for Hi-YAH!, a martial arts and Asian action movie streaming channel. Right now, there are “more than 300 streaming video services to choose from” in the United States, according to a digital media trends survey published earlier this year. The survey pulls its estimate from another report, which I’m unable to find, but […]
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I Guarded Grumpy Cat with My Life, but Now She’s Dead
I don’t think she understood her net worth.
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A Beginner’s Guide to SPLIFF—the Portland Mercury’s New Film Festival, Made by the Stoned for the Stoned!
SPLIFF is the Portland Mercury’s new stoner film festival, made by the stoned for the stoned.
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Cats the Movie Might Not Be a Total Catastrophe
Cats came to the Paramount Theater two weeks ago. Soon it’ll be a movie. Rum Tug Tugger in the North American Tour Company of Cats. Photo by Matthew Murphy. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber’s absurd musical Cats, once the longest-running musical on Broadway, is coming to the big screen this holiday season. There are expensive names […]
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A Beginner’s Guide to SPLIFF—the Mercury‘s New Film Festival, Made by the Stoned for the Stoned Hosted by Dan Savage!
The stoner film has come a long way. Nothing against Cheech & Chong—Tommy Chong played an excellent (and sexy!) singing pineapple on this season of The Masked Singer—but we’ve moved away from the stoner trope of two dudes smoking weed while driving around in their car. (Which you shouldn’t do! It’s dangerous! You’ll get a […]
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Is Bohemian Rhapsody an LGBT Film? China Concludes Only 1.5% of It Is.
And they’re right!