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End of an Era

We have some big, sad news. A message from our editorial team.

Penn & Teller, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Confessions After Midnight and more

Penn & Teller

Manifesting optimal gratitude

I’m the most thankful person you’ll ever meet.

Beware the Terror of Gaylord Manor, Cameron Esposito and SAL Presents Phoebe Robinson

Beware the Terror of Gaylord Manor

Scott Shoemaker lives to bring over-the-top absurdity to the stage

Illustration by Kathryn Rathke

The writer and performer on his cabaret character Ms. Pak-man, current role in ‘The Terror of Gaylord Manor’ and the brand-new holiday show he’s got cooking.

If you want to make it in this business

Disrupt this

“You might be asking yourself, why would I need all these personality traits just to answer phones for a carpet wholesaler?”

‘Bumbershoot Comedy and Conversation,’ ‘Aasif Mandvi,’ Sammy Obeid and more

Bumbershoot Comedy and Conversation

I am a reanimated 42,000-year-old worm

It’s nice to be pampered in the lab, but where were all these doctoral students back in the Pleistocene when I was slogging my way through a dead locust thorax?