A lot happens in each episode of Game of Thrones. So every week, we’re drilling down on one memorable scene in particular. Full spoilers for the Season Eight premiere, “Winterfell,” coming up. — Narratively, there is no good reason for the scene we’re spotlighting this week, a brief interlude where …
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On the day of the show, tickets were going for $240 each on StubHub. The merch line was longer than the drinks line. More than one person was overheard saying, “I never thought this day would come” like some glitchy messiah had landed in Brooklyn from his British home. On …
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Chicago instrumental rockers Pelican unveiled a bruising new track, “Midnight and Mescaline,” from their upcoming album Nighttime Stories, out June 7th via Southern Lord Recordings. The track clocks in at just under five minutes and opens with a barrage of heavy riffs that run ragged over the ceaseless pummel of …
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You’re looking for real intimacy and you couldn’t pick a worse place to find it. Not if you’re the gay male hustler driving the plot of Sauvage/Wild, the raw and riveting debut feature from French writer-director Camille Vidal-Naquet. “My name is whatever you want it to be,” this unnamed, unwashed …
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Rolling Stoneis heading to Palm Springs with Lucky Brand this weekend for its inaugural Live: Palm Springs event, during the first weekend of Coachella at the @ARRIVE Hotel on Saturday, April 13th. The afternoon pool party will spotlight special performances by X Ambassadors, Jax Jones, Drax Project, Palm Springsteen and …
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Back in 2013, a five-minute interview with a man who was identified as Kai, the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker, went wildly viral. In the clip, the man who identifies himself as Kai — a frizzy-haired skateboard kid with his hair tied back in a bandana — describes using a hatchet to save …
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Exploring the inherent sexiness of utensils is an intriguing exercising — and one I hadn’t considered before today. Forks definitely aren’t sexy (pointy). Spoons can be sensual (curvy). Depending on the situation, knives are arousing (dangerous). Chopsticks, I think we can all agree, live in a gray area, which Schoolboy …
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Game of Thrones references abounded in this week’s episode of Saturday Night Live. With star Kit Harington hosting the show, SNL created several imagined prequels, sequels and spinoffs that the network would air following the final season of the hit HBO series. SNL saves the best for last in the …
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New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is home to an overwhelming collection of historical art objects, including a mummy mask from 60 A.D., Greek bronzes from the 8th century B.C. and the original “Washington Crossing the Delaware” painting. Starting April 8th, it will also welcome a different type of antiques …
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As mayors from towns along the Mississippi River huddled over their phones on March 22nd, they cautiously awaited answers from members of the National Weather Service and emergency agencies across the federal government: “How bad is the flooding going to be? And what can we do to stop it?” Flooding …
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