In this week's issue of Banter M, our digital mag for members: The Cult of Parenthood - In the wake of the death of Harambe, the western lowland gorilla who was shot and killed at the Cincinnati Zoo, Bob Cesca responds to criticisms that he is unqualified to weigh in on the ...read more

In this week's issue of Banter M: My Chemical Romance - Chez Pazienza marks the 10th anniversary of the surgery that removed a tumor the size of a pinball from his head with a highly revealing account of what life is like now -- particularly after turning to testosterone boosters ...read more

Prince's sudden death Thursday has hit everyone hard, and in my case, I'm going to need a lot more time and a lot more space to even think about putting any of it into words. If you recognize the lyric "Now my tears could fill an ocean, my tears could fill a sea," you probably ...read more

We live in a hyperbolic world. Everything is the "BEST. EVER." or "literally the worst" or something we "can't even with." This is likely a result of the sheer volume of stimuli we're inundated with minute to minute in our super-connected world, one in which social media has us ...read more

It's Monday and here we are again. Hope you survived the weekend; some of us barely held on. Here are a few internet goodies to keep you occupied this morning. 1. The mysterious case of a missing Malaysia Airlines jet is very likely going to end exactly how you'd expect, but ...read more

That Prince is a genius is beyond argument. That it was a stroke of genius for Prince to use the image of Dave Chappelle dressed as him for the cover of his new record is also beyond argument. Putting aside the notoriously reclusive and self-serious Prince's decision to, ...read more