Trump’s budget proposal is here. It’s ill-advised and full of ways to punish the poor in all the big ways, but also in a way some may consider small: it suggests cutting $17 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, instead proposing a program that mandates a chunk of allotted food come in the form…
Last year The Washington Post reported that axe throwing, which is basically like darts but for people who do not fear death, made it’s way down to the US from Canada, where there’s a National Axe Throwing Federation. Earlier this year the New York Post followed up, reporting that axe throwing is now one of the…
Because Beyoncé’s every public move is curated down to the millisecond not visible by the mortal human’s eye, her two most recent releases have been baffling in their mediocrity. Last month, she and Eminem revealed the rather bland collaboration “Walk On Water,” a rap piano ballad without beats (???) that sounds…
TLC’s Four Brides is making its long-awaited (by me) return to television, but with a brilliant and exceedingly rude twist.
In high-end glossy magazines’ neverending quest to spotlight beautiful people and luxurious endeavors, occasionally they will focus on those whose wealth and beauty is perhaps ill-begotten—and in doing so, they will conveniently omit the unprettiest facts in an effort to project a certain proper well-heeled image.…
After much controversy, Megyn Kelly’s interview with InfoWars host and sweaty conspiratorial loon Alex Jones aired on Sunday evening. It has been zealously truncated to emphasize moments when Kelly puts pressure on Jones, but the end result is largely ho-hum uneventful journalism.
Some people look at a water glass and call it half-full, and others look at the same glass and call it half-empty. Similarly, some of you will read the news about a musical based on Alanis Morissette’s classic album Jagged Little Pill with a book written by Diablo Cody premiering next year at the American Repertory…
Reports from several outlets—including the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Reuters—alleged on Friday that Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law-in-chief, Jared Kushner, discussed with Russia’s ambassador to Washington, Sergey Kislyak, the possibility of establishing a secret communication backchannel between…
Online dating is either “fun!” or a nightmare, depending on who you ask. Slack, a messaging platform that lots of tech and media companies use for jokes and feigning productivity, could be described in a similar fashion. What if the two combined?
It’s rare to encounter something as straightforward and yet dumbfounding as Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. It’s a full-length feature that uses songs and (at times modified) dialogue from Mel Stuart’s iconic 1971 movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory rendered in limp animation with…
According to an internal report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security seen by Reuters, the wall that President Donald Trump has been squawking about building for over 18 months will be really, really fucking expensive.
Brenda Hampton’s dumbest idea, it turns out, wasn’t 7th Heaven, but her thoughts on including Stephen Collins in the show’s potential reunion. In 2014, Collins publicly confessed to inappropriate sexual contact with three underage girls (all between the ages of 11 and 14) between 1973 and 1994.
After nearly a year of hot and heavy anticipation, the Cruel Intentions reboot that we didn’t think we wanted until we really, really did is officially dead in the water.
When I think about fascinating, under-covered subjects deserving of a major documentary series, the Klu Klux Klan is the dead last thing that comes to mind. Very sadly, in today’s America, anyone who follows the news is bombarded constantly with stories about the KKK and those who sympathize with their white…
It’s getting hard for people to come up with original, offensive Halloween costumes. Blackface? Too common. Making fun of the activists demonstrating against the pipeline in North Dakota? Current and topical, sure, but still racist in a rather predictable way. For a bold take on Halloween dickery, please look at our…
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A 2o-year-old Virginia woman died tragically Friday morning after the unsecured mattress she was “riding” fell off the top of a moving vehicle. According to the Washington Post, officers said the woman, identified as Culpeper resident Sidney Zelaya Gonzalez, was “trying to transport the mattress,” and that the…
Welcome to Big Time Small-Time Dicks, a regular column on The Slot that explores local politicians, small-town scandals, and everything else making life miserable on a local level. Know a small time person who is a big time dick we should feature? Email us.
Here is a bad idea: to celebrate the return of Orange Is the New Black, a restaurant in Singapore, in an apparent partnership with Netflix, is doing a pop-up “prison dining experience.” That means “home-cooked prison grub” served in a jail-like cafeteria setting. Piper Kerman, who wrote the book the show is based on…
This week in the bad kind of irony, a woman was arrested for menacing her husband with a gun, accused of firing it in their bedroom while they argued. She posed for her mugshot wearing that deeply unfortunate“Stop Domestic Violence” t-shirt.
