Posts by Emily Yoshida
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Cancel the Rest of Your Friday Plans: Christmas Cats TV Is On
Lots going on today. We all want to keep talking about The Sound of Music Live!, your year-end list reading backlog is piling up, and it’s Friday, so maybe you’re thinking of stepping out and treating yourself to a healthy lunch somewhere. Listen. Don’t. There is something called Christmas Cats TV, and it is on […]
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Mike Birbiglia
The Girls discuss HBO’s ‘Ja’mie,’ Chris Lilley, and racism, and then talk to comedian Mike Birbiglia about his new special, ‘My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend.’
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Lana Del Rey’s Tropico: The Play-by-Play
Lana Del Rey’s long-awaited, long-teased short film Tropico debuted on the Internet today. Del Rey has previously described it as “Elvis and Jesus and Marilyn and extraterrestrials all in one.” Sounds right. Let’s check it out! 0:06 “And John [Wayne] said let there be light.” I don’t think Lana Del Rey is familiar with Genesis. […]
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: With Special Guest Mike Birbiglia!
The hoodies are reunited, and it feels pretty great! Today we welcome a very special guest to the pod: Comedian, actor, and director Mike Birbiglia is here to discuss his great new special My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend. But first, we chat about Chris Lilley’s Ja’mie: Private School Girl, a very funny series brought to us by […]
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Black Mirror Episode 4, ‘Be Right Back’: Death and the RealDoll
For six weeks, I am responding to the British sci-fi series Black Mirror, which premiered on Channel 4 in 2011 and is currently making its debut on North American television via DirecTV. These are not meant to be strict recaps, but there will be plenty of spoilers, which, trust me, if you plan on watching […]
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The DJ Earworm 2013 Mashup Has Arrived, Led by Miley and Lorde
It’s December, and ’tis the season for year-end lists, best-of playlists, and of course, DJ Earworm’s annual United State of Pop mash-up. If you want a quick answer to “what it all meant,” it’s hard to do better than Earworm’s five-minute time capsules of the pop sphere. Last year, I talked to the San Francisco-based […]
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Lady Gaga’s Gagadoll Is Going to Revolutionize the Music Industry
Oh, look, what have we here? Just another wackadoo Artpop promotion from the as-of-late particularly wackadoo Lady Gaga, right? Getting naked for Marina Abramovic and doing a Thanksgiving special with the Muppets seems of a piece with commissioning a silicone sex doll of yourself, right? Everything just goes into the high-lowbrow, sexual-but-not-sexy kitchen sink that […]
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Black Mirror, Episode 3, ‘The Entire History of You’: Total Redo
For six weeks, I will be responding to the British sci-fi series Black Mirror, which originally premiered on Channel 4 in 2011 and is currently making its debut on North American television via DirecTV. These are not meant to be strict recaps, but there will be plenty of spoilers, which, trust me, if you plan on […]
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Guess What Cahiers du Cinema’s Second-Favorite Movie of the Year Is
One nice thing about the respected French film publication Cahiers du Cinéma is that despite its somewhat erudite image, it has always been all about a careful, critical enthusiasm for American mainstream cinema. Now in its 63rd year, its top 10 list still reflects that spirit. Let’s take a look at its picks for the […]
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The Katniss Era: What Our YA Heroines Say About Us
Earlier this week, as I was leaving the Grantland offices, I was immediately reminded that it was Hunger Day. The entire plaza at L.A. Live was filled with mostly teenage and college-aged women lined up for the premiere of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, blowing on their peppermint mochas and talking excitedly to one another […]
