Sam Wolfson

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Sam Wolfson

Sam Harris is the kind of guest Joe Rogan loves to have on his podcast: he dresses awkwardly in a sport coat with jeans;he undertook a PhD in neuroscience after a transformative experience with MDMA; his tone is accessible yet patronising; he has a sense of academic authority which belies a set of controversial views that include calling Islam “uniquely uncivil” and almost unfettered support for Israeli attacks on Gaza; he made an app called Waking Up, which promises to be “a new operating...

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Sam Wolfson

Every night on a new Broadway production of Cabaret, Adam Lambert waits to see how the audience will react to one of the show’s biggest numbers, If You Could See Her.

2 months ago | msn.com | Sam Wolfson

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2 months ago | theguardian.com | Sam Wolfson

The Super Bowl half-time show is Plato’s perfect form of pomp and ceremony, a corporate-sponsored, highly choreographed musical performance used to entice people who don’t follow the NFL into watching TV in order to secure even higher ad fees from Doritos and Dunkin’ Donuts.

Jan 16, 2025 | theguardian.com | Sam Wolfson

Despite the terrible box office performance, and movie theatres cancelling screenings, Americans are at leasttalking about the Robbie Williams biopic, Better Man. “I hate this movie, and I haven’t even seen it … it makes me angry and I don’t know why!” complains TikTokker Jasmine Dayra, one of thousands posting similar videos. Others claim they’ve been “gaslit” into believing he’s a huge star, or that the film is the result of “the Mandela effect”, a false memory shared by a large group of people.