Sometimes, Slate Magazine's Explainer column tackles topics you've always wondered about ("Why are horses good for making glue?" They have a lot of collagen.) and answers questions pertinent to everyday life ("How do you win the claw game?" Scope out the scene for a few rounds, then work with a partner.).
Magic Mike stars former stripper Channing Tatum and former strippers in past lives Matthew McConaughey, Alex Pettyfer, and Joe Mangianello (Alcide from True Blood).
What's new with Lana Del Rey and Jaime King, you ask? Instagram photoshoots, mostly. In honor of Jaime King's 33rd birthday, the two posed in LDR's Mercedes convertible for Kyle Newman, Jaime's photographer husband.
CBS News' Mike Wallace, Dick Clark, who died over the weekend this morning at 82 93, is being hailed as an icon of broadcast journalism teenage dance shows for his foundational role as 60 Minutes' American Bandstand's investigative sock-hop bulldog. This is bullshit. He was a failed soap actor and vaudeville hack radio weatherman named Myron Dick Clay who just wanted wanted to be on television. He was as much a journalist teenage dance show provocateur as Ryan Seacrest.
There's little background info to be had here: We know his last name is Simmons, and we know he doesn't go scrote-inking without bringing at least two friends along to document the experience with their cellphones.
Illustrated vintage map Zooey Deschanel Tweeted at a writer for Gawker.com today.
In what seems like a bid to pander to the taste of fans of so-called PBR&B (a relatively recent strain of R&B that for whatever reason resonates with an indie audience that doesn't normally listen to the genre), the grunge-inventing, Shins-delivering, Postal Service-spawning indie label Sub Pop has released a bona fide R&B album. The craziest thing about it is that it doesn't sound like it's pandering at all. THEESatisfaction's Awe Naturale floats in a cloud that suggests Erykah Badu at her most blunted or Odd Future's The Internet with actual melodies and sonic variety. It's jazz, it's hip-hop, it's Earth, Wind & Fire, it's cerebral, it's banging. Critic, memoirist of the hip-hop stars and filmmaker dream hampton directed the video for "QueenS," which does a really good job of evoking what it feels like to walk through a New York apartment.
Dancin' on Air is back! The teen-oriented dance show ran from 1981 to 1987 on local Philadelphia TV and spawned a national version, Dance Party USA (aka the greatest show that ever was). Last year, PHL17 aired a few reruns and reunion clip shows of the original Dancin', and now destiny has ordained that the Philly area be blessed with all-new episodes featuring all-new teens dancing to the freshest hits of today (and some songs by people that they are interested in because they died, like Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson).
