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Throwing an amazing Halloween party can be hard work. You have to buy fake spider webs, pumpkins, candy, make weird and exciting cocktails, and pick out a sufficiently-spooky costume. The last thing you should have to worry about is...

It’s almost Halloween, which means two very important things: 1) Charlie Brown’s “It’s the Great Pumpkin” will soon be on television and 2) cans and bottles of pumpkin ale are lining the shelves of grocery stores across the country....

The achingly tendered and gorgeously rendered Moonlight does not asks its audience many questions; instead it lands on just one. In so many ways, it’s the only question that matters. Told through three pivotal episodes of his life—from a misbegotten...

This morning, a series of DDoS attacks disrupted access to a handful of the internet’s most popular websites,  including Twitter, Reddit, Etsy, and GitHub. For those of us who depend on Twitter for our jobs (or for those of...

As Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump battle for the collective soul of our (kind of) great nation, innocent bystanders have suffered a great many of casualties: Skittles, bad hombres, “nasty women,” Ken Bone, Tic Tacs, and our sanity. War is...

Coffee? Pizza? Red Vines? Chinese take-out? Those are all potential ice cream flavors to honor Rory and Lorelai Gilmore — the Gilmore Girls — two junk food loving imaginary characters getting more press play these days than when the show originally...

The internet is hype on Logan this morning, as fans of Wolverine — and movies about Wolverine that don’t suck — get a first-look at the film’s trailer release. If you haven’t been following the X-Men universe, it isn’t completely...

Eminem is angry again. That might not come as a shocker when considering Marshall Mathers, but this time he’s aimed his vexing toward the political arena with a nearly eight-minute freestyle called “Campaign Speech.” Though Em has been mum with...

Kanye West has the biggest sneaker in the industry currently. This is pretty indisputable. Resellers mark the shoe with a $1,000-plus price tag on eBay—and people pay that much for them. The hype is very real with Yeezys. So Jimmy...

Within our hyper-accelerated news culture, it can be tough to keep up with everything. But maintaining an informed populace remains vital to our culture. So for those stories that don’t quite need your undivided attention, we’re helping you digest...