Posts by Tess Lynch

  • Ghost and Temple Run

    Everything Old Is Profitable Again: Ghost: The Series and Temple Run: The Motion Picture

    Maybe there are only so many stories to be told, and maybe the stories we know well are more likely to get press coverage because we recognize them as being familiar, but this is getting ridiculous. It’s not always good to recycle. Sometimes recycling, both with cans and with ideas, creates the illusion of progress […]

  • The Princess Bride

    The Princess Bride Musical No Longer Inconceivable

    The theater is dead; long live the theater. Just as the musical production of Big Fish announced that it would be closing on December 9, Disney Theatrical Productions revealed that it will be partnering with William Goldman, the author and screenwriter of The Princess Bride (another fantastical story framed by two genetically linked dudes having […]

  • Miley Cyrus

    Miley Cyrus’s EMAs Marijuana Stunt: Just Another Distraction

    I have a theory that the harder Miley Cyrus is working to create controversy with her performances, the more she’s trying to distract us from digging into her personal life too deeply. Just before announcing her split from fiancé Liam Hemsworth, she created the distraction to end all distractions with her VMAs performance; after four […]

  • Skrillex

    Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Skrillex, Real Housewives, Slow TV, and the Bechdel Test

    Let’s take a moment to admire those four topics of discussion brought together so harmoniously on this week’s podcast. So Hoodies-wave. We start off chatting about the HARD Day of the Dead electronic music festival that Molly and Emily attended over the weekend, with its wealth of amazing PLUR vibes and, of course, our patron […]

  • American Horror Story: Coven

    ‘American Horror Story: Coven’: The Witches Still Aren’t Quite As Fun As the Murder-Tenants and the Asylum Guests

    Yesterday, FX announced that it had ordered a fourth season of the miniseries franchise American Horror Story. This didn’t come as a surprise to anybody, of course, because to quote FX CEO John Landgraf, the show is “nothing less than extraordinary. Every year, [its creators and production team] create a riveting and brilliant new miniseries.” […]

  • Scentee

    Apps of the Month: Smell-O-Vision for Your Phone, Fractals for Your Eyes, Fuel for Your Body

    Welcome to the first edition of Grantland’s apps roundup. Starting right this minute, we’ll be showcasing some of our picks from the past month or so. (Because this is our first, I’ve cheated a bit and extended this month’s deadline into the future and back to the past, but that’s just because I’m really jonesing […]

  • National Knitting Evening

    Wait for It: Norway’s Slow TV Revolution

    Last Friday in Norway, 1.3 million people watched strangers knit on television. For four hours they tuned in as people talked about knitting, and then they stuck around for eight and a half extra hours of actual knitting. I’m serious. National Knitting Evening is not the first program belonging to a genre called “Slow TV”: […]

  • Taran Killam and Kerry Washington

    SNL: Kerry Washington Comes to Rescue the Show From Its Race Problem, Temporarily

    Responding to critics is never easy to do, nor is it often advisable. Sometimes it’s better to ignore your detractors, or to change your behavior instead of getting caught up in a conversation about whatever it was you did that offended them in the first place; other times, the people yelling at you are making […]

  • Audition

    Ghouls in BOO-dies Podcast: Halloween Movies, American Horror Story, and Kanye West

    On this week’s podghast, we start off getting into the Halloween spirit by discussing our Halloween costume hopes and fears. At what age is it appropriate to ask your parents to play the Castevets in a Rosemary’s Baby group costume? Then it’s time to recap our weeks in live music — Molly and Tess’s evening […]

  • Selfies

    Duck, Duck, Sparrow: The Evolution of the Selfie

    Yesterday was the Internet’s 44th birthday. Here’s lookin’ at you, Internet, which also entails lookin’ at ourselves. In the past two weeks, we’ve considered the selfie from various flattering, filtered angles: the Tumblr “Selfies at Funerals” was born; duck face was dethroned by “sparrow face”; a performance artist streaked across Lyon posting disembodied selfies, and […]

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