NORFOLK, VA—In what is being hailed as a huge milestone in the development of the man’s verbal skills, sources confirmed Tuesday that Mark Peterbaum, the husband of a local woman’s cousin, said his first word during a visit with extended family over the holidays. “As far as any of us could tell, Mark didn’t know […]
Every mom knows that parenting comes with a slew of mixed emotions. And as the star of the upcoming film Nightbitcha horror comedy flick based on the book of the same name about the struggles American moms face, actress Amy Adams depicts those complexities in a raw performance pulled from her own experiences of mothering. […]
Capping off a year that proved, without a shadow of a doubt, that non-A.V. Club readers are spending too much time ingesting the worst shit imaginable online, the Oxford University Press has named “brain rot” Word of the Year. How else would one describe a year when Donald Trump sparked a dance craze? Maybe we […]
Cambridge Dictionary has chosen its word the year, and it’s manifest. It beat out brat (inspired by Charli XCX’s album of the same name), ecotarian, and resilience. SEE ALSO: We’re living through the age of delusion According to the dictionary, the verb means “to use methods such as visualization and affirmation to help you imagine […]
If you’ve ever perused photographs from the 19th and early 20th century, you’ve likely noticed how serious everyone looked. If there’s a hint of a smile at all, it’s oh-so-slight, but more often than not, our ancestors looked like they were sitting for a sepia-toned mug shot or being held for ransom or something. Why […]
“I’m a brat when I’m bumpin’ that,” sings Charli xcx on her single “360” from her sixth studio album, Brat. As Charli explained in a TikTok video, a “brat” is a girl who “is a little messy and likes to party, and maybe does dumb things sometimes, who feels herself but then also has a […]
Since ChatGPT launched in late 2022, people have been using it and other generative AI tools for both writing and coding, to varying degrees of success. OpenAI seems to be banking on its models being capable collaboration tools, as its now introducing “canvas,” a feature that essentially turns ChatGPT into an AI-powered word processor. Canvas […]
Black popular culture has been remixing its own version of bourgeois, at least since Gladys Knight & The Pips recorded their 1980 disco hit, “Bourgie, Bourgie” (pronounced “boo-jee, boojee”). The song describes a person “from across the tracks” who flaunts their new money with fancy clothes and a shiny car with a sunroof. Whether you […]
