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Alex Abad-Santos

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How did Turkey become the world capital of hair transplants?

Tens of millions of tourists visit Turkey each year, most of whom are there to see the convergence of East and West. It’s a place where Europe meets...

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Gladiator II has baboons, Coliseum sharks, Paul Mescal’s thighs, and so much historical inaccuracy

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Are you a bad gift-giver? Here’s how to tell, according to a pro

18.11.2024 10

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Could Dune: Prophecy really be the next Game of Thrones? 

18.11.2024 81000

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How Peanut the Squirrel became an unlikely right-wing celebrity

05.11.2024 81000

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Who came out looking the worst on Love Is Blind Season 7

30.10.2024 10

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Is this really Venom’s last dance?

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For some evacuation defiers, Hurricane Milton is a social media goldmine

11.10.2024 9

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Why do divorced guys dress like that? 

09.10.2024 10

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The miserable, utterly charmless razzle-dazzle of Joker: Folie à Deux 

04.10.2024 9

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Love Is Blind: DC sadly doesn’t feel like DC 

04.10.2024 10

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The biggest joke in Ellen DeGeneres’s new Netflix special 

27.09.2024 81000

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Agatha All Along is a Marvel show you don’t have to do homework for 

21.09.2024 10

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Nicole Kidman’s exquisitely fun and silly murder mystery era is upon us

13.09.2024 9

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America’s love affair with the increasingly weird Kennedys

07.09.2024 80500

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Your guide to the Brittany Mahomes-Donald Trump drama, such as it is

30.08.2024 81000

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The difference between American and UK Love Is Blind

24.08.2024 81000

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How a Beyoncé rumor engulfed the DNC

23.08.2024 10

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Why is everyone mad at Blake Lively?

15.08.2024 10

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The fight over Jordan Chiles’s bronze medal is barely about gymnastics

13.08.2024 80500

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Discrimination against trans Olympians has roots in Nazi Germany

01.08.2024 10

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Simone Biles’s legacy is equal parts dominance and resilience 

30.07.2024 9

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The good, the bad, and weird of the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony

27.07.2024 80500

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There’s a fantastic cameo in Deadpool & Wolverine’s post-credits scene

26.07.2024 80500

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The damsel-ification of Usha Vance

20.07.2024 80500

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Storm chasing has changed — a lot — since Twister

16.07.2024 80500

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The ugly process of turning beautiful women into Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders

13.07.2024 10

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This tiny doll is making everyone so happy

08.07.2024 10

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Hawk Tuah Girl, explained by straight dudes

28.06.2024 10

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The whole time? The Boys has been making fun of Trumpers the whole time?!

25.06.2024 9

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Deadpool and Wolverine’s marketing blitz is one long gay joke

21.06.2024 80500

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People can’t stop being weird about Caitlin Clark

12.06.2024 80500

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20 years of Bennifer, explained

26.05.2024 80500

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Hacks shows cancel culture is a joke

23.05.2024 40

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Sabrina Carpenter’s pop magic comes from being in on the joke

14.05.2024 60

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Eurovision is supposed to be fun and silly. This year is different.

For taxonomic purposes, Eurovision is an international song contest. Technically, the European Broadcast Union (EBU) created the event in 1956 to...

07.05.2024 20

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Challengers is the best thing that could happen to polyamory

Much has recently been made out of polyamory in the media, to the point where the prospect of dating and ostensibly having sex with multiple people...

02.05.2024 10

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Challengers forces us to ask: Is tennis sexy?

In addition to solidifying Zendaya as a movie star, the new Luca Guadagnino film Challengers presents a couple of ideas about the seemingly polite and...

24.04.2024 20

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It’s impossible to be neutral about Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift has always been a pop culture Rorschach test. Every song Swift releases, every single she performs or awards show she attends, every...

19.04.2024 10

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X-Men ’97 is Marvel’s best argument for an X-Men animated feature

The best thing about the X-Men is the deep, almost hilariously intense lore of Marvel’s merry mutants. In the comic books, Dark Phoenix (inhabiting...

10.04.2024 10

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Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter asks: Who does country belong to? 

In the lead-up to Friday’s release of Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé gave us a small tidbit about its inspiration. She wrote on Instagram that the album...

28.03.2024 20

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Why March Madness is all about Caitlin Clark

For the uninitiated, college basketball may seem like a complicated sport. Nearly every second is packed with plays, screens, cuts, and defenses that...

22.03.2024 20

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Beyoncé, the CMAs, and the fight over country music’s politics, explained

Editor’s note, March 19, 2024, 1:20 pm: On March 19, 2024, Beyoncé posted on Instagram that her upcoming album, Act II: Cowboy Carter — the...

19.03.2024 10

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3 reasons why Kate Middleton’s royal scandal got so out of control

The British royal family is no stranger to scandal. From cheating rumors to actual affairs, divorces and abdications, unruly royals, phone recordings,...

15.03.2024 10

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What’s a Saturn return — and why are our favorite pop stars singing about it?

Ariana Grande, Kacey Musgraves, and SZA couldn’t sound more different. But on their new and upcoming albums, all three women are singing about the...

13.03.2024 9

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Kate Middleton’s edited Mother’s Day photo, explained by an expert 

Over the past few days, we’ve all come to learn that the only thing more suspicious than a missing princess is a poorly edited photo of that...

12.03.2024 10

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No one wants an Oscar as badly as Bradley Cooper

Where were you when you realized that you knew too much about Bradley Cooper? Was it when he revealed he spent six years studying conducting to...

06.03.2024 10

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Dune: Part 2 explained, for someone who has no idea what Dune is

This article contains spoilers for Dune: Part Two Like a Harkonnen soldier levitating around in the endless desert, one can find oneself a bit...

01.03.2024 30

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Dakota Johnson’s aloof appeal, explained

To love Dakota Johnson is to understand that Dakota Johnson probably hates you for it a little bit. When she was in 50 Shades of Grey, all anyone...

16.02.2024 30

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Everyone’s being weird about Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car”

Did you know Tracy Chapman’s song “Fast Car” isn’t about an automobile traveling at a heightened velocity? Did you need someone to explain it...

09.02.2024 10

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