When a studio produces a movie that captures lightning in a bottle the way Disney did with Mary Poppins, you can’t blame them for trying to replicate the trick. But Walt’s follow-up musical, The Happiest Millionaire, had been an ambitious and costly misfire. So Bedknobs And Broomsticks would appear to be a take-no-chances attempt to completely recreate the creative alchemy that produced Mary Poppins. That’s sort of true but Bedknobs And Broomsticks isn’t exactly a Mary Poppins clone.

For more music analyses and artist spotlights, subscribe to my weekly music newsletter published every Wednesday In all seriousness, this is a phenomenal, beautifully devastating concept album. Maybe you’ve seen chatter amongst the indie music side of TikTok, brief mentions of “Preacher’s Daughter” floating the Internet, and, upon hearing these out-of-context details, thought to yourself: ”Wait…what?” “Preacher’s Daughter” is a 13-track, 76-minute long, folk-rock-blues Southern Gothic opera, following a fictional character, the preacher’s daughter, who loses lover after lover and grapples with religious trauma and sexuality in her Alabama hometown, before being kidnapped and sold into prostitution.

Welcome to Girl Culture, the newsletter where Caroline Siede examines pop culture, feminism, and more. Learn more about Girl Culture’s mission here Maybe more so than any other season of Doctor Who, season two is the one I struggle to sum up in a straightforward way. Unlike Christopher Eccleston and Matt Smith, who emerged fully formed as their respective Doctors, David Tennant takes a minute to find his feet in the role, and it’s both fascinating and a little jarring to watch that process unfold.

Short post today, but I just had to write something about the perfect game that New York Yankees starter Domingo Germán threw last night. Perfect games are incredibly rare and incredibly cool; Germán’s was just the 22nd of the World Series era (since 1903), including both the regular season and postseason, and the first in MLB since King Félix Hernández did it on August 15, 2012, more than a decade earlier.

Online speculation surrounding the Shriver - Schwarzenegger family has been mounting due to a viral TikTok series detailing claims of a cover-up stemming from a 2015 crime. The felonies — violent acts committed by the long-term partner of Arnold and Maria's youngest daughter, Christina Schwarzenegger, are resurfacing after a failure to pay the victims their court-appointed payout of nearly $40 million.  Allegations of nepotism and corruption have continued to build, with Christina skipping her most recent deposition just last week, seemingly without penalty.