Ali Fitzgerald on Her New Comic About Refugees and Germany’s Rising Nativism

Berlin-based artist Ali Fitzgerald is perhaps best known for making sharp comic foils out of animals like Hungover Bear and the mythical creatures who populate the Cut’s “Bermuda Square.” But her new book, Drawn to Berlin (Fantagraphics), centers on refugees in a Berlin shelter where Fitzgerald taught art for more

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Love Yourself and Listen to RM’s New Solo Mixtape Right This Second

Still recovering from the Sunday Scaries? There’s a hack for that: BTS leader RM has just released his second solo mixtape (except he’s calling it a playlist because this one’s all Namjoon, baby). Hot off re-signing with BigHit for another seven years, these tracks are the free therapy your body,

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The Evolution of Anthony Atamanuik’s Donald Trump Impression

Since the debut of his Comedy Central series The President Show and several specials that followed, Anthony Atamanuik has distinguished himself in a sea of Trump impersonators by being the most accurate. He credits that, in part, to his empathy for the man. At the same time, Atamanuik was one

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The 10 Best Netflix Original Horror Movies

As so much of the world quakes in the shadows of The Haunting of Hill House, Netflix’s masterful horror series, viewers are turning to the streaming service for scares more than ever. It helps that this month’s crop of Netflix original movies have turned notably gloomier and creepier with the

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus Honored With a Night of Cancer Jokes and the Mark Twain Prize

The C-word came up again and again during Sunday’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where Julia Louis-Dreyfus became the sixth woman to receive the award.Because this is real life and not an episode of Veep, the C-word in this case

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Chris Gethard’s Slow Transition From UCB Improviser to Comedy Cellar Stand-up

For about a decade, Chris Gethard, whose new self-help book/memoir, Lose Well, is in stores now, was not only one of the best improvisers at the UCB Theatre in New York, but he was one of the performers most closely associated with it. Then he stopped performing there as much,

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The Genderqueer Tale of “Take a Walk on the Wild Side”’s Jackie Curtis

Jackie Curtis was one of Andy Warhol’s Superstars — a somewhat ironic term, to be sure: being an East Village drag performer in the 1960s and 1970s wasn’t a career track that led all that often to opulent Hollywood fame and fortune (though track marks were not uncommon.) But a

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Guillermo del Toro Is Making a Stop-Motion Pinocchio for Netflix

Shape of Water director Guillermo del Toro (who probably hasn’t had time to read Leslie Jones’s hilarious and scathing critique of his fish-fucking movie) has lined up his next project with Netflix. Del Toro will write, produce, and direct a stop-motion musical version of Pinocchio, to be set in Italy

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