Noah Berlatsky

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.