Alex Burns

It’s not every day that you read about an NBA player having a brother banned for life from the league for gambling, another brother going to prison for killing a woman, and another brother arrested for a DWI all within the same month.

Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr. needs to call Esther Perel to sign his family up for counseling.

Let’s take Major League Baseball’s word for it that this year’s much-maligned Nike-designed, Fanatics-produced uniform pants—the ones players call “see-through,” the ones they drag reporters to their lockers to feel, the ones they are trying to get away with not wearing—are the same as last year’s pants.

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There’s still hip-hop, country, and pop radio, of course, but these are waning formats, as streaming has outgrown radio in terms of listenership, and streaming, rather unlike radio, has a way of collapsing all artists, fan bases, and subcultures into singular platforms. Modern artists furthermore take an expansive view of their own musical forms. P... See more

Today’s Abercrombie has replaced that fantasy with a humble practicality, offering a reasonably priced uniform for the TikTok-adjacent life where every outfit is familiar but unidentifiable, minimalist but just trendy enough. The result is less a rebranding than an unbranding, untethered from any particular aesthetic. And yet this iteration of Aber... See more

Buridan’s Ass : A thirsty donkey is placed exactly midway between two pails of water. It dies because it can’t make a rational decision about which one to choose. A form of decision paralysis.

“Scandoval” is the nickname for Sandoval’s affair with another cast member, which he had behind the backs of the show’s producers and his girlfriend of nine years. This wouldn’t be interesting or noteworthy except that in 2023, after being on the air for 10 seasons, “Vanderpump” was nominated for an Emmy for outstanding unstructured reality program... See more