The singer-songwriter reflects on what he’s learned about the holidays after releasing 100 Christmas songs. Snow Jams We’re making our lists and playing them twice. Illustration: Carolyn Figel Snow Jams We’re making our lists and playing them twice. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Sufjan Stevens’s catalogue feels wild and untamable. In just a year span, between September 2020 and 2021, the singer-songwriter and Asthmatic Kitty Records founder debuted almost five hours of music: the pensive, electronic albumThe Ascension; the ambient, mournful Convocations; and the film-obsessed A Beginner’s Mind, where he and artist Angelo De Augustine wrote songs about a string ofhorror and action-adventure movies.

Last night while you were sleeping, all the popular music girls got together and leaked their new songs online.  Ke$ha! Taylor! Lana! Your Tuesday Morning Dance Party is about to take some weird and melancholy turns. Ke$ha - “Die Young” For a Ke$ha song, this is less headache-y than usual: The synths are still there, and the boozy half-rapping, but Our Lady of the $ Sign actually sings for a majority of the song (and remember: she’s secretly pretty good).

“If she’s got blue eyes, I will surmise that you’ll probably date her.” Today is not a show that’s known for half-assing it. Whether it’s the deep wine pours or the Halloween costumes, these hosts go hard. For Halloween 2020, they all put on elaborate Broadway-themed costumes; in 2018, they were ’80s ladies (and dudes); and last year, they went for Las Vegas. In 2023, they’re taking a page from their NBC compatriot Kelly Clarkson and are going as singers that Clarkson has performed the work of on her “Kellyoke” segments.

Mark Ruffalo in Dark Waters. If meanly-clad-little-David-versus-venomous-corporate-Goliath melodramas like Todd Haynes’s fact-based Dark Waters are more alike than unalike, it’s because there’s really only one way to frame what happens every day in a country controlled by companies with vast coffers, armies of lobbyists, and politicians leased by the year. This isn’t a lefty rant: That this is how things work shouldn’t even be up for debate. What Haynes brings to the story isn’t a new scenario or twist, but a more intense, invasive tone.

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Tom Ford takes a position. Once upon a time, Tom Ford propositioned a heterosexual male magazine writer and professed his belief that men — yes, all men — should experience penetration at least once in their lifetime. “Oh, God, what was I thinking?” Ford says in an interview with GQ about the comment, which he says he meant but didn’t mean to say out loud. He elaborated further anyway: “I think it would help them understand women,” Ford said.

Mike Flanagan has a SAG-AFTRA waiver and he’s not afraid to use it! The Fall of the House of Usher creator is going full indie for The Life of Chuck. The film is an adaptation of the short story of the same name by Stephen King. Stephen King? For Flanagan? Groundbreaking. Flanagan spilled all the spooky tea on Twitter, giving us a full cast breakdown. Tom Hiddleston will star as Charles “Chuck” Krantz, whose life we see in reverse chronological order.

The white 2003 Cadillac Escalade that Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) drove during the final three seasons of HBO’s iconic series The Sopranos has been auctioned off for $119,780. The late, great actor also signed the interior of the Escalade. The SUV — Tony’s second, after the 1999 Chevy Suburban he drove in the opening credits and throughout the first four seasons, which was previously sold for $110,000 — was used for in-car conversations, and had its own moment in the spotlight in the season-five episode “In Camelot” when Tony chased down rival Phil Leotardo (Frank “Get your f*cking shinebox” Vincent), resulting in Phil crashing into a Boar’s Head truck.

Top Chef Cruising to a Win Season 21 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Top Chef Cruising to a Win Season 21 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Going into “Cruising to a Win,” it felt like any of the three Top Chef: Wisconsin finalists had an equal chance at pulling away.

Amy Landecker. Amy Landecker, the actor who plays Sarah Pfefferman on Transparent, was feeling relaxed and silly at the end of a long press junket for the Amazon show’s fourth season. In other words, she was ready to unload. “I get frustrated a little bit with how much sex Sarah has,” Landecker said. “Every year I’m just like, ‘Oh my God. What is up with her?’” It’s a new season of Transparent, which means new sexual territory for Sarah, the eldest and arguably most neurotic of the Pfefferman siblings.