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Chappell Roan Got Too Famous Too Fast October 02, 2024
On September 28, the summer of Chappell Roan began its inevitable turn to fall. In a “Weekend Update” segment on Saturday Night Live, Bowen Yang appeared as Moo Deng in a bit comparing the viral hippo’s plight to Roan’s own complaints about inappropr...
Pete Rose Is Dead. Now Reinstate Him October 02, 2024
Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s all-time hits leader, died at 83 Monday, roughly 35 years and a month after he signed a letter agreeing to a permanent ban from the sport. The three-time World Series champion, most valuable player of the 1975 Serie...
Indie-Rock Supernova October 01, 2024
“Weave my disgust into fame,” Liz Phair sang, “and watch how fast they run to the flame.” Then it came true. At the beginning of 1993, nobody except a few Chicago scenesters knew who Liz Phair was. At the beginning of 1994, her instant-classic debut ...
The Fame Monsters August 02, 2024
CHARLOTTE TILBURY LAUNCHED ITS KIM K lipstick in 2016: a vibeless, neutral, basic bitch pink. Kim was in on it, of course. As Phillipa Snow writes in Trophy Lives, her riveting new illustrated essay about fame and art, Kim is “not only a perfectionis...
Just Famous Enough April 30, 2024
Well, well, well. Back for another round at the discourse buffet, are we? Craving another taste of the debate stirred up by our last mold-breaking, human condition-exposing investigation: is it better to desire or be desired?Hunger no more. Today’s 3...
The Excommunication of Pete Rose April 29, 2024
In the opening monologue of the Ron Shelton film Bull Durham, baseball groupie Annie Savoy proclaims her allegiance to the “church of baseball.” She explains, “I prefer metaphysics to theology. You see, there’s no guilt in baseball, and it’s never bo...
Where Did It All Go Wrong for J.Lo? April 11, 2024
In February, Jennifer Lopez released a bundle of multimedia projects that were each part of a larger statement—arguably, a misguided one—about the power of love or something. One of those was This Is Me … Now, a very cheesy and otherwise unremarkable...
Mark Knopfler on the Most Wistful Music of His Career April 11, 2024
Mark Knopfler is a tough guy to pin down. A reluctant sultan of swing, if you will. Fame? He can’t think of anything good about it; in fact, he eschews it instinctively. But he’s been in its shadow since Dire Straits debuted their self-titled album o...
Maggie Rogers’s Journey from Viral Fame to Religion April 10, 2024
In the fall of 2021, the singer and songwriter Maggie Rogers entered the graduate program at Harvard Divinity School. For anyone unacquainted with the particulars of the degree Rogers was pursuing—a master’s in religion and public life—it might have ...
The New Defenders of the Faith April 09, 2024
This past year’s National Book Awards gala presented an ironic, yet at this point increasingly familiar scene: Held in the glittering halls of Cipriani’s on Wall Street, the attendees—dressed in their finest, dining at one of New York’s famed upscale...
