December 2016 Default Articles
- Vintage Pop Culture New Year’s Eve Memories
- This Week’s Top 5 TV Picks
- Flavorwire Staffers on Their Best Cultural Experience of 2016
- “It’s Political to Be Who You Are”: Trans Comic Ian Harvie on His Standup Special, ‘May the Best Cock Win’
- What’s Gained and What’s Lost in Sam Gold’s Modernized ‘Othello,’ Starring David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig
- Lorca’s ‘Play Without a Title’ Gets a New Title, and Two New Acts
- Flavorwire Staffers on Their Worst Cultural Experiences of 2016
- From RBG to Lena to Hillary, Let 2016 Be the Year the Memeifying of Women Ended
- Everything is Fine: House Republicans Propose Fines for Congressional Live-Streams
- Beloved, Multitalented Icon Carrie Fisher Dies at 60
- Tom Arnold Claims “Watergate Level” Journalists Are Looking Into Potentially Incriminating Information on Trump
- This Week’s Top 5 TV Picks: Holiday Binge Edition
- 2016 in TV: A Collective Drama of Division, Pouring Out of a Million Channels
- Peak TV Still Peaking, But Broadcast Offerings Are Down
- Listen: Immerse Yourself in Grouper’s Gorgeous New ‘Paradise Valley’ 7″
- ‘The Man in the High Castle’ and the Alluring Spectacle of Fascism
- Michelle Obama Talks to Oprah, Quietly Refusing to Address Trump by Name
- Dramatizing Transience: How TV Reflects Our Shifting Concept of “Home”
- Samantha Bee Gets Weird with Glenn Beck
- A&E Sparks “Normalization” Debate After it Picks Up a Docuseries About the KKK
- The Good Wife Spinoff Features a Fierce Diane Lockhart Kicking Ass
- 2016 in Film: Black Moviemaking in An Era of Cultural and Social Tumult
- Gordon Cole Returns to Eat a Donut in New ‘Twin Peaks’ Revival Teaser
- The Best and Worst of Last Night’s ‘SNL’ with Casey Affleck
- 10 Charming 2017 Calendars for a Fun and Creative New Year
- Obama, Aleppo, Capitalist Christianity: This Week’s Recommended Reading
- Literary Links: Writers Contend With the New World Order
- See Character Photos of Samira Wiley, Elisabeth Moss, Ann Dowd, and More in ‘Handmaid’s Tale’
- Seminal Performance: Facebook’s Chameleonic Role as a Credible News Sharing Platform in 2016 Body Horror Film
- Watch Solange Perform “Weary” on ‘The Tonight Show’
- Scary-Bryan Cranston Threatens Sneaky-Giovanni Ribisi in Trailer for New Amazon Series
- ‘Rectify’ Ends a Beautiful Series Finale on a Note of Cautious Optimism
- Tired Woman Patiently Offers to Educate Idiot Man About Rape and PTSD
- Fox’s Musical Drama ‘Star’ Burns Out
- How Rising Pop Sensation Anne-Marie Makes her own Luck
- Samantha Bee Takes on Ohio’s Draconian Anti-Abortion “Heartbeat Bill”
- Five Essential Quotes from Obama’s ‘Daily Show’ Interview
- ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ Is a Case Study in How Politics Can Shape Comedy
- The Year in TV: The Best Shows of 2016
- Future Feminism and the Power of Yes
- Recommended Reading: The Tragedy of Oakland’s Ghost Ship, Taibbi vs Friedman, and the First Self-Help Guru
- This Week’s Top 5 TV Picks
- Watch the First Trailer for Norman Lear’s ‘One Day at a Time’ Netflix Reboot
- The Year in TV: The 15 Best Performances of 2016
- A Study Confirms It: Media’s Attempt at “Objectivity” Failed the Public in 2016
- Watch Stephen Colbert Take On #Pizzagate and the Alt-Right
- Staff Picks: ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane,’ ‘Daughters of the Dust,’ and More
- Trevor Noah, Tomi Lahren and Donald Trump: How The Liberal Commentariat Needs to Understand Its Multiple Functions
- The Year in TV: The Best Experimental Episodes of 2016
- Tina Fey Has Some Advice for Artists in the Age of Trump
- 10 Independent Media Publications to Support in a Trump World (and for the Holidays)
- Chris Rock Announces Plans for ‘Total Blackout’ — His First Stand-up Comedy Tour in 9 Years
- ‘Mozart in the Jungle’s Third Season is Just a Goddamn Delight
- “You Thought There Were Rules? Psych!”: Samantha Bee on the Trump Transition
- Adult Swim Axes “Alt-Right” Show ‘Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace’
- A Conspiracy Theory, A Pizza Parlor, and A Gunman: A Day in the Trump Dystopia
- ‘Westworld’ is Bullshit
- The Year in TV: The 10 Best Episodes of 2016
- The Artist with the All-Seeing Eye
- The Best and Worst of Last Night’s ‘SNL’ with Emma Stone
- The Quest from Obscurity to Enormity
- Bernardo Bertolucci Admits He Filmed Controversial ‘Last Tango in Paris’ Rape Scene Without Star Maria Schneider’s Consent
- 10 Essential Gifts for Your Favorite Horror Movie Fan and Spooky Person
- Get Your First Look Into the Republic of Gilead With These Images From Hulu’s Upcoming ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Series
- ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Broadway Discussions Become Ever More Official
- This Week’s Top 5 TV Picks
- ‘Gilmore Girls’ Producer Says Stars Hollow Would’ve Voted For Trump
- Seminal Performance: Ann Coulter’s Role in ‘Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No’
- The Sundance Film Festival Announces First Wave of Programming
- Leah Remini’s Scientology Docu-Series Provides a Blueprint for Resisting Bullying and Intimidation
- Watch the Soapy New Trailer for ‘Nashville’ Season 5
- Advice for Journalists in the Age of Trump: 10 Helpful Primers