Blake Shelton Rides Voice Fame to Best Sales Week Ever

'The Voice' is very powerful.

What Does the Simon Cowell/X Factor Lawsuit Really Mean?

'American Idol' creator/plaintiff Simon Fuller could be anticipating the end of his cash cow.

A Shannen Doherty Reality Series Is in the Works

About her wedding.

The New Spider-Man Trailer Feels Just Like a 2008 Hit Video Game

Here's a side-by-side comparison of the Spidey web-slinging and the 2008 video game Mirror's Edge.

Nostalgia Fact-Check: How Does Dinosaurs Hold Up?

"I'm the baby! Gotta love me!"

There’s a David Foster Wallace Character in Jeffrey Eugenides’ New Novel

Meet Leonard Bankhead, a brilliant young man who wears bandannas, dips tobacco, and has a history of hospitalizations.

Jousting Reality Show Gallops Toward History Channel

The horse kind of jousting, not the 'American Gladiators' kind.

The Amazing Spider-Man Trailer: Love, at Third Spider Bite?

Watch the newly released official teaser.

Ryan Adams Cannot Stop Covering Vampire Weekend

See Adams's take on "Mansard Roof" and "Oxford Comma."

South Park Will Be Back for Two More Seasons

The cynicism will continue, as is the tradition.

The Office’s Jenna Fischer on Her Indie Drama A Little Help, Hiding Her Pregnancy, and Michael Scott’s Replacement

"I really wanted Christina Applegate to play the role."

Ryan Seacrest to Explore the Secret Life of the American Persian for Bravo

Watch what happens on 'Shahs of Sunset.'

See a Children’s Book Imagining of the Many Possible Community Couplings

Except Pierce.

Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon Present a Truncated History of Rap, Again

This time with Salt n' Pepa, Nelly, Outkast, and the Dougie.

The Vulture Book Recap: Reading A Dance With Dragons Together, Part 3

Summaries, commentary, and spoilers on chapters 16 to 23.

From Weird Al to Beavis to Undressed: A History Lesson on MTV’s Scripted Shows

What, you forgot 'Sifl & Olly' and 'The Young Ones'? What have Snooki and Co. done to you?

They Might Be Giants: Sixteen Random Tales From 30 Years on the Road

In the band's nerdy tradition, they're not about groupies and drugs: They're about cow crap, Bob Mould dinner dates, and high-voltage electrocutions.

Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983–1993

An exhibition of works by the famed artist and activist, who made headlines recently when he was jailed by the Chinese government on tax-evasion charges and released after an international campaign of protest. Ai spent a significant part of his career in New York on the fringes of the Basquiat-Koons-Haring scene, where he communed with other expat Chinese artists and explored his neighborhood and the city with a 35-mm. camera. The 227 images on view here are curated to lay bare the dissident artist's fascinations, experiences, and attitudes of the period—and, in the process, drop you back into the grimy East Village of not very long ago.

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