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In Chef Brian Jupiter’s Chicago, It’s Always Game Day

Just about every weekend at Frontier in Chicago’s West Town, chef Brian Jupiter brings out an array of omnivore’s delights: whole-roasted wild boar, lamb marinated in-house, farm-raised pig smoked over cherrywood — even wild-caught alligator flown in from Shreveport, Louisiana, stuffed with whole chickens and served with whole sausage and … More » Source: Ent […]

A Running Tally of All the Requisite Virgin Jokes During The Bachelor’s Premiere

While Arie Luyendyk Jr.’s “thing” as last season’s Bachelor leading man might’ve been the sad whimper of viewers asking who? after his unveiling, this year, Colton Underwood got a very different reception from the franchise: The 26-year-old former football player is a happy virgin — a not-particularly-unusual status, but one … More » Source: Ent […]

Welcome to Dystopian Realism

Dystopian fiction has been with us for at least a century and a half — that is, for as long as the acceleration of modernity has made us simultaneously desire and fear for the future. We’ve tended to know dystopia when we’ve seen it: the inversion of utopia (the good … More » Source: Ent […]

Give Barry Jenkins a Sci-Fi Movie, You Nerds!

As If Beale Street Could Talk hits the awards circuit, director Barry Jenkins is at work adapting The Underground Railroad into a mini-series for Amazon. At Sunday’s Golden Globes, Jenkins gave Vulture a preview of what to expect from his vision of Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed novel: “It’s such a massive … More » Source: Ent […]