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One cancelled show can tell you more about a tour than a month of triumphs. Charli xcx’s Arizona cancellation — announced Tuesday, October 20, for the Wednesday show that would have been the penultimate American date of her Music, Fashion, Film Tour — arrived wrapped inside a Las Vegas Finale countdown, a brand launch and … Read more
There will be an empty stage in Arizona on Wednesday night, and a very honest explanation for it. Charlotte Aitchison — the three-time Grammy winner the world knows as Charli xcx — has cancelled her Arizona tour date, the second-to-last American stop of her Music, Fashion, Film Tour, after fighting sickness through a run of … Read more
Profiles of athletes’ parents usually exist to explain the athlete. This one works the other way round: Dan and Laura Olson are interesting in their own right, and their son’s unlikely career — part baseball, part Broadway, part ballroom — makes the most sense when you start with them. Consider Derek Jeter, Robinson Canó and … Read more
Start with the geography. New Milford, Connecticut is not a place that produces viral baseball stars on an assembly line. It is where Dan and Laura Olson raised three children — Jackson, Alex and Ari — in a house where sport was serious but never selfish, and where the road to the Savannah Bananas began … Read more
Every breakout star has an origin story, and Jackson Olson‘s begins at the family dinner table in Connecticut. The Savannah Bananas infielder — now also dancing his way across national television — is the middle story of a household built on sport, patience and showing up. Meet Dan Olson and Laura Olson, the parents behind … Read more
Somewhere in television history there is a rule that spin-offs are supposed to be grateful. SNL UK just broke it beautifully — and in doing so, it may have given us the clearest picture yet of what modern comedy arguments are actually about. Strip the story down and it is almost elegant. An American host … Read more
There is a particular kind of joke that only works if everyone in the room already knows the scandal. On October 17, SNL UK’s Weekend Update told exactly that kind of joke — and the size of the laugh it got told its own story about how completely Shane Gillis’s American monologue had escaped its … Read more
Comedy’s strangest feud of the autumn now has an ocean in the middle of it. One week after Shane Gillis hosted the American Saturday Night Live and drew a storm of criticism for his opening monologue, the British spin-off Saturday Night Live UK fired back on air — using its own Weekend Update desk to … Read more
Let us ask the obvious question first: why would a family spend $4,000 and more than 200 hours turning their home into Jurassic Park? The sensible answers — they love the film, they love Halloween — are true but insufficient. Plenty of people love both. The Warners built a 13-foot gate anyway, and the reasons … Read more
How do you build Jurassic Park in a driveway on a household budget? The Warner family’s answer is a masterclass in determined DIY: a 200-Hour Build, a roughly 4000-Dollar Budget, a brand-new 3D Printer, and a workforce spanning three generations, from Rob and Kel Warner down to a middle son who found himself manufacturing parts … Read more