News Amazon not releasing new Woody Allen movie as planned Xeni Jardin

#metoo Woody Allen: "I should be the poster boy for the #MeToo movement." Mark Frauenfelder

#metoo Dylan Farrow wonders why Woody Allen still gets away with it Rob Beschizza

covid Covid-19 is making New York kinky again Matt Maranian

tabloids Brad Pitt’s brush with death, Julia Roberts quitting Hollywood, and Christmas kittens, in this week’s dubious ad-packed tabloids Peter Sheridan

public archives A Studs Terkel Radio Archive will soon be public Jason Weisberger

sexual assault Dylan Farrow speaks on TV for first time about her sexual assault allegations against Woody Allen Mark Frauenfelder

john waters John Waters' favorite 10 films for 2017 include: 'Baby Driver,' 'Tom of Finland,' and 'Wonder Wheel' Rusty Blazenhoff

1960s TV special – Woody Allen Looks at 1967 Mark Frauenfelder

impressions Celebrity "nano-impressions" with master impressionist Jim Meskimen Xeni Jardin

picks Actor Gene Wilder dies at 83 Xeni Jardin

media America’s plague of real-life vampires, and more hard-hitting tabloid news this week Peter Sheridan

lemony snicket A Series of Unfortunate Questions for Daniel Handler Mark Dery

comic-con Dispatch from Planet Comic-Con Craig Shapiro

In a new book, Jon Ronson talks with people whose lives have been ruined by online shaming Mark Frauenfelder

Caffeine can really mess with your head Murray Carpenter

Self-Dissection: a conversation with satirical English author Will Self Mark Dery

fiction The Age of Dingdong David Cairns