Professional wrestling, soon to be found on Netflix. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Cora Veltman/Sportico via Getty Images Two years ago this month, Netflix warned investors that it saw growth slowing down during the first half of 2022 — and the result was nothing short of a Wall Street freakout. The streamer’s share price fell by nearly 20… Continue reading The Week Netflix Put the Smackdown on Its Rivals
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Marcella Arguello’s Beyoncé Won Late Night This Week
Photo: After Midnight via YouTube First things first: Dad’s coming home! That’s the big news in late night this week. Last week, The Daily Show made a preannouncement that a capital-A Announcement would be coming this week. You know who else was coming? A bunch of elder millennials when they heard Jon Stewart would be… Continue reading Marcella Arguello’s Beyoncé Won Late Night This Week
A Critic’s Festival-Season Diary: Week II
Photo: Vulture; Photos: Maria Baranova/New York Live Arts, Jose Miranda, Marc Brenner, Maria Baranova Ed. note: It’s the third and final week of my January adventure. I’ve been keeping a diary of the month’s festival offerings, and you can catch up on my previous entries here and here. Also, I heard a rumor that UTR… Continue reading A Critic’s Festival-Season Diary: Week II
A Critic’s Festival-Season Diary: Week II
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Maria Baranova, Bjorn Bolinder, Courtesy of You Are Who You Eat, Courtesy of The Black Circus of the Republic of Bantu Editor’s note: Last week, I started a festival diary to chronicle my magical mystery tour through January’s abundance of new and experimental theater. Now it’s time for Week Two. It’s Monday,… Continue reading A Critic’s Festival-Season Diary: Week II
A Critic’s Festival-Season Diary: Week I
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Matthew Liefheit, Lawrence Sumulong Twelfth Night, January 6, traditionally marks the end of the festive season. Unless you’re a theater person in New York City — in which case, when the New Year rolls around and brings festival month with it, you strap on your trekking boots and trade the wassail for… Continue reading A Critic’s Festival-Season Diary: Week I
Jimmy Buffett Song Released a Week After His Death
Photo: Erika Goldring/Getty Images At midnight on September 8, the late great Jimmy Buffett released three new singles from that eternal five o’clock up in the sky. The songs — “Bubbles Up,” “My Gummie Just Kicked In,” and “Like My Dog” — had been previewed in short radio sneak peeks as part of the rollout… Continue reading Jimmy Buffett Song Released a Week After His Death
2023 SAG and WGA Strike Picket-Line Updates Week 9
Do you? Photo: Franco Origlia/Getty Images Welcome to Vulture’s Strike Recap, or Strike-cap, if you will, a regular rundown of all the biggest news from the WGA and SAG picket lines. Happy (belated) Labor Day! Strikers had a long weekend to ponder some news items that dropped last week, including this: A Gallup poll found that 72 percent… Continue reading 2023 SAG and WGA Strike Picket-Line Updates Week 9
2023 SAG and WGA Strike Picket-Line Updates Week 8
Photo: Hollywood To You/Star Max/GC Images Welcome to Vulture’s Strike Recap, or Strike-cap, if you will, a regular rundown of all the biggest news from the WGA and SAG picket lines. AMPTP had a rough week. How rough? It hired a crisis PR firm, and now the PR firm is dodging bad PR for accepting the job. It… Continue reading 2023 SAG and WGA Strike Picket-Line Updates Week 8
2023 SAG and WGA Strike Picket-Line Updates Week 7
Roasted. Photo: Hollywood To You/Star Max/GC Images Welcome to Vulture’s Strike Recap, or Strike-cap, if you will, a regular rundown of all the biggest news from the WGA and SAG picket lines. The AMPTP is set to meet with the WGA again sometime this week. “Last Friday, 102 days after they walked away from the bargaining table and… Continue reading 2023 SAG and WGA Strike Picket-Line Updates Week 7
Can CPS cope with extreme heat during back-to-school week?
Once Chicago Public Schools parent Marcelina Pedraza arrived at George Washington Elementary School’s Back to School Bash on Thursday, she said she was “accosted” by two things: a teacher who told her the air conditioning wasn’t working in multiple classrooms, and the mugginess of the combined cafeteria-auditorium. Cooling and other HVAC issues aren’t new at… Continue reading Can CPS cope with extreme heat during back-to-school week?