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Lovelorn ghosts, punch-ups involving roast meat and a holiday armadillo. Festive television doesn’t get better than these absolute classics.

Beyonce sang country and western while Charli XCX’s turned the summer slime green with her album Brat.

Starting in early December, Sedaris started posting her own gift guides on her Instagram account — 20 gifts at a time, accompanied by simple captions, retailers tagged, completely brilliant, and slightly deranged.

Annie Lennox loves the Pogues. Santigold loves Otis Redding. Kacey Musgraves loves Kacey Musgraves.

Few comics have achieved such notoriety by being so brilliantly anodyne.

Spotify’s plot against musicians.

The lean, lively album isn’t perfect, but it is a perfect way for Kendrick to close out his banner year—and begin a new chapter There are, of course, counterarguments.

I didn’t see the band going much further than two or three singles, but our early dance hits built up such a fanbase that we had to keep going.

At the end of her sprawling, impressive third mixtape, Alligator Bites Never Heal, Tampa rapper and singer Doechii receives a warmly encouraging voicemail from a woman who invokes the story of Abraham and Lot, sometime Biblical neighbors whose shepherds quibbled over a shared plot of land until the

Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can roam freely starting in 2025. The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United States on Jan. 1.