What a week! Bring me all the Diet Dr. Pepper in the land!

Last summer, news broke that the Boston Public Library was going to digitize high school yearbooks across Massachusetts in an effort to archive “as many of the state’s historically significant documents as possible and make them available online.” That meant a bunch of brace-faced nerds with Marky Mark lyrics…

Shit yeah: Celine Dion, “Perfect Goodbye” - To my knowledge, “Perfect Goodbye,” from Celine Dion’s first English album after the death of her husband, René Angélil, marks the first time she’s ever cursed on record. “This shit is perfect,” she coos in the chorus, after taking on what sounds to me like a…

Sarah Dessen is sorry that she and a slew of other bestselling authors spent the last two days riling up their followers to harass a recent college graduate who does not care for Dessen’s young adult novels.

Basketball season is here. Kristaps Porzingis played at Madison Square Garden as a Dallas Maverick and was booed by Knicks fans. Elsewhere, a man named Robert Covington sat on the bench and ate a stroopwafel. Other tall men in various parts of the country ran down a big, shiny court, shoes squeaking, sweat flying,…

On November 16, history will be made. Harry Styles is performing on and hosting Saturday Night Live, a show I only pay attention to when boy band-related activity is promised. Naturally, this weekend is a holiday for me and my fellow obsessors. Like, yesterday I walked past 30 or so girls camped out for Harry nearish…

This isn’t news to anybody, but it’s Friday, so I’m just gonna come right out and say it: Take a walk. Everybody, just close your laptop, put down your phone, and take a lap or two around the block. Please!

Remember when something wild would happen in entertainment and we’d turn on The Soup every week to see which comedians would say the rudest thing? But then Twitter came along and everyone now does that every second of the day? Well, that show is coming back to E!! Elsewhere in Hollywood, Clive Owens has joined the…

On the penultimate episode of Love & Marriage: Huntsville’s first season, two of the cast members, Marsau and his brother Maurice, visit a urologist for a consultation about getting vasectomies. The brothers quickly follow through on their plan, using the occasion to make jokes about not being able to have sex after…

Two Survivor contestants have admitted that they manufactured harassment complaints in order to get a third contestant, who earnestly reported harassment, kicked off the show—all as an entire production team filmed the incidents and did nothing. While both of the women who made the false allegations have apologized…

Trey Edward Shults’s third movie, the instantly acclaimed Waves, hits the ground running and sprints for a good hour, the camera twirling and pushing and zooming to capture the frenetic life of high school senior Tyler (Kelvin Harrison Jr.). He’s an overachiever—a sharp student, an accomplished athlete, a musician—who…

By my count, I am the owner of 29 plants. Some are leafy, some are not; some are in various stages of distress, while others are thriving. Or maybe I now only have 27 plants, because two of them have maybe died? Can they be saved?

The Latin Grammys have long been a flashpoint for the complicated ways the U.S. relates to Latinxs, and the way our vast and infinitely diverse diaspora relates to itself. The short answer to the main prevailing question—why there gotta be a separate “Latin” Grammys tho?—has been U.S. English-speaking audiences’…

Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and a career diplomat, testified on Friday morning before the House Intelligence Committee as part of the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump. Much of her testimony focused on her reaction to the successful smear campaign orchestrated against her by Rudy…

Meghan McCain was absent from The View for most of this week, but unfortunately it was not because she was abducted by aliens.

Homer once wrote this, about Odysseus’s long-awaited reunion with his wife Penelope: