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2017 was a watershed year for many reasons, but one thing stands out above all others: the massive cultural transformation in society's treatment and understanding of, and attitudes toward, women. This trend has been driven, in large part, by female voices and characters in pop culture.
It was a good year for music of all genres. From Benjamin Booker’s unclassifiable Witness, to A. Savage’s alt-country Thawing Down, to Kamasi Washington’s jazzy Harmony of Difference, these are the best.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is finally here, and the holidays are for watching movies.
Democrats' willingness to clean house gives them the moral high ground, but it leaves them crippled, politically. Plus: The Girlfriend Experience nails down our current political moment, and Daniel Shaver's execution by police in Arizona underscores the need for police reform.
Spike Lee gives us the show we need with his remake of his 1986 classic, She's Gotta Have It.
Sarah Silverman has a powerful, and difficult, response to Louis C.K.'s sexual misconduct, and Harry Potter fans protest against Johnny Depp's new role in the franchise.
Good music always makes you feel 17, don't fall asleep to true-crime podcasts, and other lessons gleaned from a year of pop culture consumption.
Molly Ringwald weighs in on Weinstein, St. Vincent perfects her sound on her fifth album, Masseduction, and Broad City leans into the current political moment.
In this ghoulish edition of the work, our culture editor offers up a brief list of of the spookiest things you can watch, listen to, and read to help get in the Halloween spirit.
Patton Oswalt transmutes his grief over his wife's death in Annihilation, Shark Tank's the perfect show for the Trump era, and: did you know Tom Hanks wrote a book?
The show, despite good intentions and a few good moves, ends up making the same mistake that most journalism about mass shootings makes: by fixating on the perpetrators, it misses the opportunity to dig into more substantive examinations about gun crimes in America.
Two throwbacks this week, with a splash of change: Nintendo releases SNES Classic, and it's good, plus Miley Cyrus returns to her roots with her new album, Younger Now.
In the pilot episode of The Tumbledown, our new podcast on all things culture, Brendon and Rachel talk about the new music video from PRETTYMUCH, Simon Cowell's newest boy band.
Some recs from our contributing culture editor before she hunkers down for Hurricane Irma.
Cirocco Dunlap's new web series, Everything Is Okay, mixes the technological paranoia of Black Mirror with the absurdist cityscapes of Man Seeking Woman, and Taylor Swift goes full Game of Thrones in her new video for "Look What You Made Me Do."
The solar eclipse gives us much-needed perspective (and that awesome photo of Trump staring directly at the sun), Wet Hot American Summer returns for no good reason, and Taylor Swift's new single disappoints the internet.
The events in Charlottesville are horrifying, frustrating, and exhausting, and prove that it's white men and women who need to have the conversations and the confrontations that will beat racism off Main Street and back into bunkers and mountain compounds and dank corners of the internet.
