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Haim Goes Back in Time in ‘Relationships’

It is giving Uniqlo in the best way. By Fran Hoepfner

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The Pitt Was Testing Us

This is a teaching hospital, after all. By Roxana Hadadi

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Will Shortz Is Back in the Game

The Times’ crossword-puzzle editor returns to work — and table tennis — after two strokes that nearly ended his career. By Matthew Schneier

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Mescal and Ferran in Streetcar: Yes, Yes, Magic!

Rebecca Frecknall’s production at BAM has it all. By Sara Holdren

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Everything That’s Happened to the Menendez Brothers Since Monsters The brothers will have separate hearings in June.
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Is Lisa Barlow Leaving ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’? She was spotted at SXSW while the other housewives were filming at a spa.
lawsuits 7:20 p.m.

Soulja Boy Accused of Rape, Assault, and Kidnapping, by Former Assistant The rapper began trial in Los Angeles this week.
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Ayo Edebiri Got Death Threats Because of Elon Musk After he quote-tweeted a fake story about Edebiri starring in Pirates of the Caribbean 6.
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The Kelly Clarkson Show Has Been Kelly-Less She has been absent since March 6.
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Susan Sarandon Stands in Solidarity With Mahmoud Khalil at Court Hearing “This is a turning point in the history and the freedom of this country.”
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Spider-Man 4 Will Have Everything and the Sadie Sink Though we don’t know who she’s playing.
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Do You Give a Stitch About Live-Action Stitch? It’s … it’s a monster!
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Millie Bobby Brown Isn’t So Sure She’s a Trad Wife Call Her Tevye the way she loves tradition.
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Spinal Tap II to Hit Theaters for Band’s 41st Anniversary A teaser shows very little — other than the band turning up the dial past 11.
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Poker Face Season Two? We Wouldn’t Lie About It Cynthia Erivo, John Mulaney, and more are on deck with Natasha Lyonne in the new trailer.
lost daughters 12:15 p.m.

The Trailer for Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer Puts the Women First Documentarian Liz Garbus returns to the Long Island serial-killer case to unravel what happened at Gilgo Beach.
respect the classics 11:28 a.m.

John Mulaney Has David Lee Roth’s Bluegrass Album on Repeat Yes, he’s embarrassed to admit it, but have you heard “Jump” on the banjo?
show me your teeth 10:27 a.m.

Lady Gaga Turns Las Culturistas’ Segment Against Itself “When you tell me to do things, it makes me want to cry — it makes me insane!”

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Summer House Recap: Beast Mode The clock is literally ticking on Carl and Lexi’s relationship.
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Abbott Elementary Recap: Relationship Replay It’s nice to see the teachers let their hair down every once in a while.
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Survivor Recap: Hands Tied A player goes home thanks to a Kafkaesque set of rules.
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Temptation Island Finale Recap: With A Whimper (And A Ring) With the relationships in flames, the final batch of episodes feels like one long waiting room until the final bonfires.
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Temptation Island Recap: The Floodgates Are Open The men waste no time cheating on their partners, but it’s okay because it’s in the name of “figuring out” their relationships or whatever.
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Temptation Island Season-Premiere Recap: I Saw Goody Grant With The Devil A reality TV classic gets rebooted for Netflix with plenty of slow-motion shots and a cast of influencers in training.
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Daredevil: Born Again Recap: The Right Thing to Do I’m getting impatient waiting for Matt to accept that he’s Daredevil.
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Deal or No Deal Island Recap: Snakes and Eels Everywhere We’ve made it down to the final five, which means it’s time for broken promises and shattered alliances.
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Denise Richards & Her Wild Things Recap: Only Godzilla Forgives I’m starting to wonder if watching Denise Richards & Her Wild Things counts as faith-based programming.
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The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: You’re Trippin’ The women have long-overdue and awkward conversations.
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The Bachelor Recap: ‘The Carolina Show’ Guest starring Dina and Sarafiena.
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The Righteous Gemstones Season-Premiere Recap: Divine Intervention Is it a surprise that a Gemstone was running a scheme during the Civil War?
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Suits LA Recap: Buyer’s Remorse The show wants these characters to seem remarkable and fierce, but we never see any evidence of either.

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The Pitt Was Testing Us This is a teaching hospital, after all.
theater review 3/11/2025

Mescal and Ferran in Streetcar: Yes, Yes, Magic! Rebecca Frecknall’s production at BAM has it all.
album review 3/11/2025

Lady Gaga Throws Everything in the Pot Mayhem isn’t quite the return to form it’s being sold as.
sxsw 2025 3/11/2025

Death of a Unicorn Is 5 Pounds of Purple Poop In a 10-Pound Bag Fantasy-creature gore may be a funny spectacle, but it’s not enough to hang a whole movie on.
book review 3/11/2025

Transness Gets Metaphorical in Torrey Peters’s Stag Dance She examines the messy underbelly of DIY trans culture, diving into the cringier aspects of queer growing pains.
theater review 3/10/2025

How Do You Measure a Career? The Jonathan Larson Project. A revue of the Rent creator’s trunk songs and offcuts isn’t profound, but it’s moving all the same.
theater review 3/10/2025

A Ghosts That Doesn’t Go Mad Jack O’Brien’s new Ibsen adaptation could use a couple more brainworms.
tv review 3/10/2025

Give Zahn McClarnon an Emmy Already Dark Winds’s strongest season to date is defined by his outstanding performance.
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The Thriller Drop Is a Perfect Addition to the Bad-First-Date Canon Meghann Fahy, you will always be famous.
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Bradley Cooper Is So Good at This “This” being “acting like an asshole.”
theater review 3/9/2025

Launching Into Adulthood, With Frenemies and Hummus: All Nighter Senior year is almost over, guys.
sxsw 2025 3/9/2025

The Accountant 2 Cannot Be Taken Seriously Do not approach this sequel, starring Ben Affleck as an underworld accountant again, with any sort of sobriety.
sxsw 2025 3/8/2025

Another Simple Favor Is So Fun, Until It Gets So Dumb By the end, the film doesn’t feel subversively strange, just self-consciously campy and irritatingly smug.
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Errol Morris Has Been Sucked Into the Gaping Maw of True Crime The documentarian may have been pivotal to creating the language of true crime, but he’s not immune to streaming bloat.

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What Severance’s Patricia Arquette Learned From Cobel’s Trip to Salt’s Neck By Sophie Brookover

Summer House (S9/E5)

Beast Mode The clock is literally ticking on Carl and Lexi’s relationship.
Abbott Elementary (S5/E17)

Relationship Replay It’s nice to see the teachers let their hair down every once in a while.
Survivor (S48/E3)

Hands Tied A player goes home thanks to a Kafkaesque set of rules.
Temptation Island (S1/E8)

With A Whimper (And A Ring) With the relationships in flames, the final batch of episodes feels like one long waiting room until the final bonfires.
Temptation Island (S1/E4)

The Floodgates Are Open The men waste no time cheating on their partners, but it’s okay because it’s in the name of “figuring out” their relationships or whatever.
Temptation Island (S1/E1)

I Saw Goody Grant With The Devil A reality TV classic gets rebooted for Netflix with plenty of slow-motion shots and a cast of influencers in training.
Daredevil: Born Again (S1/E3)

The Right Thing to Do I’m getting impatient waiting for Matt to accept that he’s Daredevil.
Deal or No Deal Island (S2/E10)

Snakes and Eels Everywhere We’ve made it down to the final five, which means it’s time for broken promises and shattered alliances.
Denise Richards and Her Wild Things (S1/E3)

Only Godzilla Forgives I’m starting to wonder if watching Denise Richards & Her Wild Things counts as faith-based programming.
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now streaming The 9 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend Gemstones and other gems. By Savannah Salazar
buffering The State of Netflix’s Comedy Business, 2025 More Mulaney? Yes. Endless synergy? Duh. Its own SNL? “We’d be open to it,” says the streamer’s stand-up boss. By Josef Adalian
ratings NCIS (Still) Cannot Be Denied The hit procedural just cleared another ratings milestone and shows no sign of slowing down. By Josef Adalian
now streaming The 9 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend If you’re not into the Oscars, there’s always Survivor. By Savannah Salazar

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album review Lady Gaga Throws Everything in the Pot Mayhem isn’t quite the return to form it’s being sold as. By Craig Jenkins
pod goss ‘You’re Here to Find Husbands, and You Can’t Marry Each Other’ The women of Love Is Blind season eight unpack the pods and the reunion from their perspective. By Jason P. Frank
cheat sheet Say ‘I Do’ to the Divorce Memoir Everyone’s writing about the end of their marriage, for better or worse. By Emma Alpern

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Spider-Man 4 Will Have Everything and the Sadie Sink

Though we don’t know who she’s playing. By Jason P. Frank

coming soon Do You Give a Stitch About Live-Action Stitch? It’s … it’s a monster! By Bethy Squires and Alejandra Gularte
coming soon Spinal Tap II to Hit Theaters for Band’s 41st Anniversary A teaser shows very little — other than the band turning up the dial past 11. By Justin Curto
obsessions Gigi Hadid Releases Her Maestro A lip-sync performance of “You Can’t Stop the Beat” from Hairspray produced for her Vogue cover story. By Jason P. Frank

sxsw 2025 Death of a Unicorn Is 5 Pounds of Purple Poop In a 10-Pound Bag Fantasy-creature gore may be a funny spectacle, but it’s not enough to hang a whole movie on. By Alison Willmore
coming soon Thunderbolts* Is Basically an Avengers of A24 Creatives The creatives behind Beef, Minari, Everything Everywhere All at Once and more are linking and building into the MCU. By Alejandra Gularte
sxsw 2025 The Thriller Drop Is a Perfect Addition to the Bad-First-Date Canon Meghann Fahy, you will always be famous. By Alison Willmore
it never ends Another Simple Favor Crew Brushes Off Lively-Baldoni Drama Anna Kendrick and Paul Feig deflect and defy concerns and trolling during the film’s SXSW premiere. By Fran Hoepfner
on the record Emilia Pérez’s Controversial Camino Karla Sofía Gascón says she “contemplated the unthinkable” in a 12-paragraph statement. By Bethy Squires

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Everything That’s Happened to the Menendez Brothers Since Monsters

The brothers will have separate hearings in June. By Victoria Bekiempis

physically shaking Is Lisa Barlow Leaving ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’? She was spotted at SXSW while the other housewives were filming at a spa. By Alejandra Gularte
today on daytime The Kelly Clarkson Show Has Been Kelly-Less She has been absent since March 6. By Justin Curto
can’t read my Poker Face Season Two? We Wouldn’t Lie About It Cynthia Erivo, John Mulaney, and more are on deck with Natasha Lyonne in the new trailer. By Jason P. Frank
lost daughters The Trailer for Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer Puts the Women First Documentarian Liz Garbus returns to the Long Island serial-killer case to unravel what happened at Gilgo Beach. By Fran Hoepfner

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Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney Again The first episode, airing March 12, will feature Michael Keaton, Joan Baez, Fred Armisen, personal finance columnist Jessica Roy, and Cypress Hill. By Hershal Pandya

chat room What Severance’s Patricia Arquette Learned From Cobel’s Trip to Salt’s Neck “Seeing how pivotal she was to all of it gave me a different level of leverage for her in her relationship with Lumon.” By Sophie Brookover
coming soon Relax — Hacks Back on Track, Packs Wisecracks on Max Here are the season-four facts. By Rebecca Alter
good gossip Meryl Streep and Martin Short Are Making This Way Too Much Fun The Only Murders stars were spotted at Oh, Mary! being flirty. By Fran Hoepfner
pod goss ‘You’re Here to Find Husbands, and You Can’t Marry Each Other’ The women of Love Is Blind season eight unpack the pods and the reunion from their perspective. By Jason P. Frank

Music

lawsuits

Soulja Boy Accused of Rape, Assault, and Kidnapping, by Former Assistant

The rapper began trial in Los Angeles this week. By Alejandra Gularte

respect the classics John Mulaney Has David Lee Roth’s Bluegrass Album on Repeat Yes, he’s embarrassed to admit it, but have you heard “Jump” on the banjo? By Devon Ivie
show me your teeth Lady Gaga Turns Las Culturistas’ Segment Against Itself “When you tell me to do things, it makes me want to cry — it makes me insane!” By Jason P. Frank
pyramid schemes Ne-Yo Quadruples His Girlfriend Reveals The same R&B singer who doesn’t support trans people is polyamorous? By Justin Curto

album review Lady Gaga Throws Everything in the Pot Mayhem isn’t quite the return to form it’s being sold as. By Craig Jenkins
mormon culture Yes, Benson Boone Has Had Coffee (Because No, He’s Not Mormon) “It literally tastes like burnt wood.” By Justin Curto
switched on pop The Secret to Timbaland’s Futuristic Sounds His mosaic approach turned him into one of the best producers of all time. By Megan Lubin and Nate Sloan
a long talk Michelle Zauner’s Success Nearly Destroyed Her And then the Crying in H Mart film fell apart. But she’s changing her fortune with a new Japanese Breakfast album. By Delia Cai
the law Druski, Odell Beckham Jr. Deny Involvement in Diddy Case A woman accused the influencer and NFL star of gang-raping her with Diddy, who also denied the claims. By Justin Curto

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Vulture Is Turning La La Land Into Ha Ha Land

On March 25, we’re launching Guaranteed!, a biweekly comedy show at L.A.’s Lyric Hyperion theater! By Jesse David Fox

got that dog in him Finally, SNL Gives Marcello Hernandez a Dog to Hold Even though the dog didn’t get to ride on the scooter-suitcase with Lady Gaga. By Alejandra Gularte
new vocab Lady Gaga and Bowen Yang Put ‘Nachos,’ ‘Delulu,’ and ‘Slay’ to Rest They’re not worth being reheated. By Alejandra Gularte
resume builder Lady Gaga Loves ‘Winning Things’ Even If It’s a Razzie The ‘Mayhem’ singer says she’s one step closer to an “EGOR” aka a “more hurtful” EGOT. By Alejandra Gularte

vedic technology Every Boy I Know Is Obsessed With ‘Pipe Rock Theory’ Conner O’Malley understands these freaks better than anyone else. By Rebecca Jennings
this week in late night Polymath Amanda Seyfried Won Late Night This Week Preemptively against any Joni Mitchell biopic not starring Seyfried. By Bethy Squires
buffering The State of Netflix’s Comedy Business, 2025 More Mulaney? Yes. Endless synergy? Duh. Its own SNL? “We’d be open to it,” says the streamer’s stand-up boss. By Josef Adalian
cultural pharmacopeia ‘This Show Really Faced an Uphill Battle’ Deli Boys creator Abdullah Saeed talks about putting the jokes first while examining survivor’s guilt and dodging representation discourse. By Hershal Pandya
last night on late night How Late Night Addressed Trump’s Address Bon mots from Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, and more. By Bethy Squires

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theater review

How Do You Measure a Career? The Jonathan Larson Project.

A revue of the Rent creator’s trunk songs and offcuts isn’t profound, but it’s moving all the same. By Jackson McHenry

theater review A Ghosts That Doesn’t Go Mad Jack O’Brien’s new Ibsen adaptation could use a couple more brainworms. By Sara Holdren
theater review Launching Into Adulthood, With Frenemies and Hummus: All Nighter Senior year is almost over, guys. By Jackson McHenry
theater review Where’s Willy? Abe Koogler’s Deep Blue Sound The orcas have vanished, and a Pacific Northwest community is puzzled. By Sara Holdren
theater review Sumo Is a Subculture Story That Goes Big The backstage dynamics of an ancient, extremely ritualized sport. By Sara Holdren

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What to See on (and Off)(and Off–Off) Broadway Let Vulture’s theater desk be your guide. By Vulture Editors

works in progress Not Your High School Crucible Sadie Sink stars in John Proctor is the Villain, a Broadway comedy that upends the classic drama. By Devon Ivie
backstories Toni Morrison’s Lost Play Why did the novelist’s only staged drama disappear for so long? By Elon Green
here we (literally) go again Mamma Mia! Is Coming Back to Broadway This Summer My, my, how can you resist this? By Jennifer Zhan
chat room Wicked’s Jenna Bainbridge on Reframing Nessarose’s “Tragic” Disability Twenty-one years in, she’s the first disabled actor to play Elphaba’s sister, who uses a wheelchair, on Broadway. By Esme Mazzeo

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Books

cheat sheet Say ‘I Do’ to the Divorce Memoir Everyone’s writing about the end of their marriage, for better or worse. By Emma Alpern
book review Transness Gets Metaphorical in Torrey Peters’s Stag Dance She examines the messy underbelly of DIY trans culture, diving into the cringier aspects of queer growing pains. By Grace Byron
spellcasting Harry Potter Hires a Hogwarts Headmaster Reportedly casting John Lithgow as Dumbledore. By Rebecca Alter
book review The Minority Report Gets a Trump-Era Update Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel is an alarming dystopian approximation of what we might be headed toward. By Sam Worley
book review Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Frustrating Return Her new novel Dream Count suffers from the retrograde gender politics and bad writing that has defined her career of late. By Sanjena Sathian

Books

Art

the work of art Lisa Yuskavage Becomes the Protagonist After 35 years of painting her signature girls, the artist has turned to a new subject: herself. By Adam Moss
art review The Exhilarating Anger of Christine Sun Kim Her new show at the Whitney reveals that language is a social currency that constantly places the deaf at a disadvantage. By Jerry Saltz
remembrances Walter Robinson, Rogue Pirate of the Art World The longtime man-about-downtown died this week at age 74. By Jerry Saltz
art review Caspar David Friedrich’s Lonely Islands A retrospective at the Met captures the German romanticist’s epic melancholy. By Jerry Saltz
extremely online The Hyperpigmentation Drawing Meme Is a Work of Art Call it TikTok’s modern-day Mona Lisa. By Jennifer Zhan