
Aja Romano
Former Senior Culture Writer
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Before the dawn of social media, AIM was the chat client for a generation. After 20 years, it’s shutting down.


Lots of people say they want short tweets. But that’s not always how they’re using the site.


SNL mostly dodged its longtime writer Al Franken, and seemed tired of its own sexual harassment jokes.


Depp, who faces allegations of domestic abuse, plays the villain Grindelwald — but his casting and the role are complicated.


A smear campaign targeting Seder accused him of joking about rape in a satirical tweet from 2009.


How William Carlos Williams’s famous poem about plums in the icebox became a meme.


Recent movies, new TV series, and classics: These are the streaming offerings most worth your precious viewing hours.


The internet should have made it easier to fight for net neutrality. Instead it helped kill it.


For some, the first lady’s attempt to ring in the holidays was The Nightmare Before Christmas.


The ’70s were short on fresh-faced teen idols. Partridge Family star David Cassidy was an exception.