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David Roth

Holland Roden, Joe Pantoliano, and Matthew Daddario sitting on a very Hallmark movie coach, all admiring a little Buffalo Bills ornament that Pantoliano (in a Bills hat and goatee) has received from an anonymous benefactor. It's from the trailer of Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story.

The Hallmark Channel And The Buffalo Bills Encourage You To “Go For Four”

Soraya Roberts

American actor Robert Redford wearing a grey tweed blazer over a matching waistcoat and a white shirt, with a diagonally striped tie, with a grey fedora, in a scene from 'The Sting', filmed in the United States, 1973.

Arts And Culture

Robert Redford Made An Art Of The Double Take

Barry Petchesky

LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 04: Jimmy Kimmel is seen at 'Jimmy Kimmel Live" on November 04, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by RB/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

Politics

Charlie Kirk Is A Means To An End

Hannah Smothers

Reality TV Dating Enters Virgin Territory

Brandy Jensen

Not Every Documentary About A Crime Needs To Be A True Crime Documentary

Kelsey McKinney

Engraving shows interior of Leiden University library, Netherlands 1610 by Jan Cornelisz Woudanus, approximately 1570-1615.

The Machines

If The Thieving AI Company Can Survive The Legal Settlement, Then It Is Not Big Enough

English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian Melvyn Bragg

Thank You, Melvyn Bragg

Owen Lewis is a former Defector intern and has written for The Guardian, The Second Serve, The Athletic, and other publications.

Owen Lewis

Interviews

Lucas Schaefer Understands The Brutality, Absurdity, And Transcendence Of Boxing

Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.

Nicholas Russell

Sphere lights up with an advertisement for "The Wizard of Oz at Sphere" ahead of the show's premiere

No Courage, No Heart, No Brain

Food

I Apologize For The Behavior Of Barry “The Popcorn Moron” Petchesky

Woman holding giant sized popcorn and drink

I Submit To You That Popcorn Is A Bad Movie Snack

Lindsey Adler is a writer based in Brooklyn. She exclusively covered sports for a decade but has other interests, too.

Lindsey Adler

Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher perform onstage at the Oasis Live '25 - Toronto concert at Rogers Stadium

The Oasis Reunion Tour Has Shaken Up My Gallagher Brother Power Rankings

Israel Daramola

Hurricane Katrina Showed How Quickly It Can All Fall Apart

taylor swift and travis kelce at the 2024 US. Open. He is wearing a stupid hat and looking at her lovingly.

Travis Kelce Sufficiently Recovered From Humiliating Super Bowl Loss To Propose

A grimacing Terence Stamp, with some blood splashed across his face, in Stephen Soderbergh's 1999 film "The Limey"

Seek And Destroy

Mitch Therieau is a writer living in Virginia.

Mitch Therieau

Marcus Mumford and Alex Ebert and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes perform as part of the Railroad Revival Tour at San Pedro Port of Call on April 22, 2011 in San Pedro, California.

The Tragedy Of “Stomp Clap Hey”

James Greig is a journalist and the Political Editor at <a href="https://www.dazeddigital.com/user/jamesgreig">Dazed</a>.

James Greig

Sally Rooney Dares The British Government To Follow Through

Alex Sujong Laughlin

People sit in bleachers and lawn chairs in front of a stage at sunset.

An Interview With My Grandmother, Who Knows Everyone In Bluegrass Music

Two parents read a book to their child in bed

What Books Should I Buy For My Future Child?

New Cowboys Docuseries Offers Revealing Look Up Jerry Jones’s Own Ass

Angelina Mazza

L-R) Nihar Duvvuri, Molly Griggs, Fina Strazza, Amalia Yoo, Sadie Sink, Morgan Scott, Gabriel Ebert, Maggie Kuntz and Noah Pacht take the curtain call during "John Proctor Is The Villain" Broadway opening night at the Booth Theatre on April 14, 2025 in New York City.

The Revolution Will Be Extra-Curricular

Listening Habits

Rap Music Yearns For The Good Ole Days

Albert Burneko

A pure black field. Nothing whatsoever is visible.

What’s ‘Mönch’ Thinking?

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Chris Thompson

Ice Cube makes an angry face while lost in an emptied WeWork.

Twelve Minutes Of Ice Cube Stumbling Around An Empty Office In An Escalating Panic Almost Redeems The Rest Of ‘War Of The Worlds’

Corey Atad is a freelancer writer based in Toronto with an unhealthy Air Bud obsession.

Corey Atad

Zohran Mamdani smiling with a megaphone in the park