Posts by Tess Lynch

October 30, 2013
Grantland Style Report: Halloween Costumes of the Rich and Famous

Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher Cohen dressed as, I think, a business-casual ape having sex with a peasant woman (or he could be an ape riding an old lady who is pretending to be a horse), while Fisher was a ballerina tiger on their way to a rave at the Casamigos Halloween party in […]
October 28, 2013
SNL: Edward Norton’s Surprisingly Fun Halloween Episode and Wes Anderson’s Amazing Horror Movie

Man, was I nervous for Edward Norton. The last episode of SNL, which was followed by a two-week break, was rough. Bruce Willis mumbled, the sketches were overall pretty weak, and someone in the comments of my recap wished that Willis had busted out his cover of “Under the Boardwalk” to save the sinking ship […]
October 24, 2013
Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Kimye, Pop War Rankings, and Hello Ladies

We kick off this week’s pod with a general Girls in Hoodies blessing of the union of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, orchestral arrangements of Lana Del Rey songs be damned. Then it’s time to go deep on the current status of the Q4 pop wars, which this week were shaken up by an unexpected […]
October 24, 2013
Return to Hollywood Bowl: Katy Perry’s Benefit Concert With Tegan and Sara, Ellie Goulding, and More

Last night, Molly Lambert and Tess Lynch ventured once more into the Hollywood Bowl, for the Katy Perry We Can Survive breast cancer benefit concert. It was truly the night of a thousand women. Well, OK, seven — Bonnie McKee, Kacey Musgraves, Tegan and Sara, Sara Bareilles, Ellie Goulding, and the lilac-lipsticked “Roar”-meister herself. We wondered how the Katy experience […]
October 23, 2013
Astroturfing: Rendering the Entire Internet Meaningless, One Fake Post at a Time

Yelp, besides being a nice place to read porny food prose and find mechanics, is a great website if you feel like becoming a paralyzed, paranoid lump. All you wanted was to choose a place from which to purchase your takeout dinner. You sat down and searched for hamburgers in your area, and then you […]
October 22, 2013
The Voice’s Judging Panel Loses Its Summer Camp Spirit

There’s something about The Voice that’s reminiscent of summer camp, while its competitors The X Factor and American Idol are more like boot camp: It’s artist-friendly and more respectful of the singer’s vision; there’s less time devoted to behind-the-scenes drama; and, even though it has yet to propel any of its winners into the kind […]
October 21, 2013
Is Drake’s Tour Already in Trouble?

Drake’s current concert tour, which hits arenas in 39 cities across the U.S. and Canada and features Miguel and Future, is off to an inauspicious start, and it’s only just begun. More than an hour after Saturday’s Philadelphia show was slated to start, the set was canceled because of “an unexpected technical issue” (reportedly a […]
October 17, 2013
Weekly Weird Internet: The Serbo-Russian Wolf-Man of Iceland Cometh

This week’s Weird Internet is a meta–Weird Internet, which is the best Weird Internet of all. Once upon a time, in the year of our lord 2009, a man posted on a Russian dating website, seeking 16- to 20-year-old virgins to marry. The ad was accompanied by pictures of the 39-year-old dude in question sitting […]
October 17, 2013
Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Frasier, Eastbound & Down, and Katy Perry

Our original plan had been to just talk about the ’90s NBC sitcom Frasier straight through this week’s hour for no particular reason, but the nostalgia gods granted us the humblest of current-day reasons to do so: this cast reunion in Entertainment Weekly! Seriously, though, we do spend a lot of time on the couch […]
October 16, 2013
Lady Gaga Adds Muppet Holiday Special to Her Conceptual Album Promo Art Piece

Remember back in 2011, when Lady Gaga hosted (and directed) an ABC holiday special called A Very Gaga Thanksgiving? Sure you do (but if not, here you go). It was actually pretty great; it was set at Gaga’s alma mater, Convent of the Sacred Heart, and featured Katie Couric and Tony Bennett (who at one […]

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