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David Letterman, Now (and Then)

As his NBC show comes to streaming, the comedian looks back at those early years — and ponders the fate of the late-night landscape he helped shape. By Josef Adalian

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What Kyla Scanlon Is Listening To

The popular economist and pundit lets us in on her personal podcast habits. By Nicholas Quah

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30 Plays and Musicals We Can’t Wait to See This Fall

A revived Chess, a new Versailles, and a promising year for the nonmusical play. By Jackson McHenry

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The Alexander McQueen Bio-play Has Neither Style Nor Substance

House of McQueen ought to be dripping in blood and exposed vertebrae. Instead, it’s all taupe with a relaxed fit. By Sara Holdren

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10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See This Fall Some shows thrill, some surprise, some confuse — bless them all.
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Only Murders in the Building Can’t Live Forever But it feels like it could.
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The Girlfriend (S1/E6)

Gone Girl We all knew it could come to a fatal showdown between Cherry and Laura, and that’s precisely what the finale delivers.
The Summer I Turned Pretty (S3/E10)

Team Benito Belly learns French, gets a new boyfriend, and lives her best Emily in Paris life.
The Girlfriend (S1/E5)

Girlboss Down With the tables sufficiently turned, Cherry doesn’t hold back from destroying everything Laura holds dear.
The Girlfriend (S1/E4)

Level Up Just when it looks like Laura has won, someone inconveniently comes back from the dead.
The Girlfriend (S1/E3)

Losing Grip After Cherry’s massive misstep, Laura finally has the advantage.
The Girlfriend (S1/E2)

Lock and Key Welcome to the family vacation from hell.
Platonic (S2/E7)

Don’t Ask, Don’t Get Maybe Charlie took Will’s advice to drop lawyering and do whatever he wanted a little too literally.
The Girlfriend (S1/E1)

Unreliable Narrators For a thriller starring Olivia Cooke and Robin Wright as two women engaging in psychological warfare, the pacing makes the premiere mostly boring.
Alien: Earth (S1/E6)

Bees Do It The show hits the “are the hybrids human?” theme extra-hard this week.
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now streaming The 11 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend Watch Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson do one last spooky job, or a bunch of journalists at a local newspaper attempt to do theirs. By Savannah Salazar
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tiff 2025 Eternity Should Be Sadder For a movie with such high emotional stakes, this would-be tearjerker sure has a lot of jokes. By Hershal Pandya
love thy new reality stars Who Are the Nader Sisters and Why Are They Everywhere? Stop wondering who these women are and start keeping up with the Naders. By Tom Smyth
tv review Only Murders in the Building Can’t Live Forever But it feels like it could. By Nicholas Quah

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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Are Letting Their Bromance Rip

In their latest collaboration, a cop thriller for Netflix. By Jennifer Zhan

the greatest showman returns Hugh Jackman Has a Wig and He’s Singing Neil Diamond Songs He and Kate Hudson play cover artists in Song Sung Blue. By Fran Hoepfner
it was the ’80s Charlie Sheen’s Memoir Is Characteristically Sleazy All the stories about paid sex, tiger’s blood, and everything in between while he glosses over the most glaring allegations of wrongdoing. By Zoe Guy
tiff diary Roofman Is the Kind of Thing Derek Cianfrance Does Best Channing Tatum charms in a morally tricky tale that leans into Cianfrance’s knack for good men who are bad dads. By Joe Reid

ooky spooky and kooky Can The Conjuring: Last Rites Conjure Up More Box-Office Milestones? The film already scored the best opening-weekend tally ever for a horror movie. By Jason P. Frank
tiff 2025 You Can’t Look Away From Cooper Hoffman In Poetic License, Hoffman is like a Gen-Z Vince Vaughn, bullshitting sophistication at a mile a minute, but also too sensitive for this world. By Hershal Pandya
interview from hell Ayo Edebiri Says Me Too Movement and Black Lives Matter Aren’t ‘Done’ Taken aback at an Italian press junket with After the Hunt co-stars Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield. By Bethy Squires
the future Wait, Did Saoirse Ronan Have Her Baby? Netflix’s Pride and Prejudice is using “Lowden look-alikes” while its Mr. Darcy goes on paternity leave. By Fran Hoepfner
case open Wake Up Dead Man: It’s Knives Out 3! Who’s doing something unholy in the new trailer? By Alejandra Gularte and Jason P. Frank

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TV

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Love Is Blind Joins the Mile-High Club

Meet the Denver, Colorado, singles joining season nine of Netflix’s great experiment. By Jason P. Frank

this rose Taylor Frankie Paul Will Be the Next Bachelorette Does dating all those men at once count as soft swinging? By Jason P. Frank
chat room Eric Rahill Quit His Nordstrom Job to Join The Paper “Great company, by the way.” By Justin Caffier
coming soon Don’t Get Too Comfy, Love Island Games Is Back Andreina is back to take your man. By Alejandra Gularte
mta daddy Zohran Mamdani Earns the Robber-Baron Vote Morgan Spector, of The Gilded Age, narrates rich New Yorkers’ mayoral panic. By Jason P. Frank

awards chatter
The 2025 Creative Arts Emmys Will Help Beyoncé and Kendrick EGOT Also big nights for The Studio, The Penguin, and The Pitt. By Bethy Squires

love thy new reality stars Who Are the Nader Sisters and Why Are They Everywhere? Stop wondering who these women are and start keeping up with the Naders. By Tom Smyth
tv review Only Murders in the Building Can’t Live Forever But it feels like it could. By Nicholas Quah
emmys 2025 The Emmys Are Bringing Back Your Favorite Binge Watches Presenters hail from Nevermore, Stars Hollow, the Good Place, and more. By Alejandra Gularte
live from new york Everyone Who Is Leaving SNL Before Season 51 We have our official cast for next season confirmed. By Alejandra Gularte and Hershal Pandya

Music

the law

Dead Body Found in Singer D4vd’s Trunk While He’s on Tour

At his concert after the news broke, he handed out Labubus. By Jason P. Frank

fall preview 2025 31 Classical-Music Performances We Can’t Wait to Hear This Fall Kavalier & Clay at the opera, Dudamel and Salonen at the podium, and more. By Justin Davidson
yes chef Taylor Swift Still Loves a Good Vodka Cranberry It’s her signature drink at Travis Kelce’s new restaurant. By Alejandra Gularte
abracadabra Lady Gaga Won’t Stop Feeding the Little Monsters Her “Vanish Into You” performance on Colbert is the perfect counterpoint to her slay at the VMAs. By Jason P. Frank

fall preview 2025 17 Albums We Can’t Wait to Hear This Fall Swift season approaches! By Matthew Schnipper
leaks Young Thug’s Leaked Calls Might’ve Ended His Relationship His public apology to Mariah the Scientist over cheating allegations seemingly did not go over well. By Alejandra Gularte
profile Lizzo Starts Over The pop star’s success once felt radical. Can she capture the Zeitgeist again? By Allison P. Davis
dance or die Lady Gaga Does ‘The Dead Dance’ Live Gaga beamed in from the Mayhem Ball at the 2025 VMAs By Bethy Squires
meet me at the VMAs 2025: Rosé Dedicates This Award to …Rosé While accepting Song of the Year for “Apt.” By Bethy Squires

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Comedy

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Take a Seat for Tim Robinson’s The Chair Company Next Month

His new HBO comedy co-created with Zach Kanin premieres on October 12. By Hershal Pandya

new hires How The Paper Spins Its Office Origins The sitcom’s freshman season is a strange, often funny hybrid of its direct predecessor and the like-minded workplace comedies that followed. By Jesse Hassenger
tiff 2025 Liking John Candy Isn’t Enough Colin Hanks’s new documentary, John Candy: I Like Me, while pleasant enough, is hampered by a desire to serve a particular narrative. By Hershal Pandya
this week in late night John Oliver’s Sincere RHOSLC Promo Won Late Night This Week Plus Sabrina Impacciatore on The Tonight Show and Stephen Colbert teasing his final season. By Bethy Squires

movie review The Baltimorons Is Funny, Moving, and Lovably Awkward Jay Duplass’s return to the directing chair represents an artistic turning point for the onetime mumblecore pioneer. By Bilge Ebiri
call corporate Extra! Extra! The Paper Has Been Delivered. All ten episodes of The Office spinoff are now on Peacock. By Jason P. Frank
what’s goin’ on down Labubus Meet Trump’s Boo on South Park Satan is pregnant with the president’s spawn in season 27’s latest episode. By Alejandra Gularte
renewals Peacock Has Already Renewed Its Subscription to The Paper TV shows about print media are doing way better than print media itself. By Bethy Squires
snl Please Don’t Destroy’s Era of SNL Videos Is Ending But they’ve still got plenty of other projects cooking. By Hershal Pandya

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Theater

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Taika Waititi and Rita Ora Are Making a Fyre Fest Musical

The couple who stages plays together stays together. By Bethy Squires

a great idea worth demanding Let’s Stunt Cast the Muppets on Broadway Soon the entire theater industry will be at their felty fingertips. By Tom Smyth
theater review Shakespeare in the Park’s Twelfth Night Is Both Pleasant and Facile Despite a compelling performance from Sandra Oh. By Sara Holdren
grand returns Darren Criss Will Return to Broadway’s Maybe Happy Ending This Fall Taking over from Andrew Barth Feldman, whose casting caused controversy, on November 5. By Jason P. Frank
they’re illusions michael! Muppets to Finally Take Manhattan Audra. Liza. Piggy. By Rebecca Alter

theater
What to See on (and Off)(and Off–Off) Broadway Let Vulture’s theater desk be your guide. By Vulture Editors

stagedoor manners Audra McDonald Says a Fan Followed Her Home From Gypsy “When you see an actor leave the stage door, if they don’t stop, leave them alone.” By Jason P. Frank
theater review Revisiting Mamma Mia!, Where the 21st Century Never Arrives Does your grandmother know? By Jackson McHenry
chat room Audra McDonald on Going From Momma Rose to The Gilded Age’s ‘Mama Bear’ “I said, ‘Wait a minute, wait a minute. That was Rose. That wasn’t Dorothy. I gotta tone it down a little bit.’” By Jason P. Frank
encounter Ben Ahlers’s Time Has Come The Gilded Age’s “clock twink” loves the memes, but he’s trying to look past them. By Jackson McHenry

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Books

fall preview 2025 10 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Fall From Thomas Pynchon’s return to a few long-awaited memoirs. By Tolly Wright and Tomi Obaro
cooking the books The Worst Part of Tiny Bookshop Is Also the Most Accurate A new cozy management game is surprisingly close to the retail experience — for better and worse. By Fran Hoepfner
chapters Axl Rose Stole My Coat Zosia Mamet on her wayward years as a New York club kid. By Zosia Mamet
chapters How Composer John Williams Saved Home Alone The Star Wars composer’s last-minute score gave gravitas to the now-classic comedy. By Tim Greiving
best of 2025 The Best Books of 2025 (So Far) Including memoirs about sex — both having lots and going without. By Vulture Editors

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Art

fall preview 2025 10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See This Fall Some shows thrill, some surprise, some confuse — bless them all. By Jerry Saltz
art The Six Female Artists With Major Solo Shows This Fall Sasha Gordon, Olivia van Kuiken, Ana Cláudia Almeida, María Berrío, Adebunmi Gbadebo, and Karen Barbour on how they prepared for their big solo shows. By Jay Kolsch
art review A Love Letter to Vermeer The Frick’s austere new show about the Dutch master is a quiet triumph. By Jerry Saltz
the hamptons issue 46 Artists Who Live and Work in the Hamptons Laurie Anderson, Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl and 43 artists keeping the Hamptons from turning into Key West. By Bob Morris
encounter ‘The Depth Is in the Pictures, Not What I Say About Them’ Rosalind Fox Solomon made haunting photographs for 50 years. She told us about her trajectory from Tennessee housewife to artist. By Christopher Bonanos