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Michael Arndt's first day of writing Star Wars: Episode VII features some serious real talk: revisiting Toy Story 3, getting food delivered with a side of therapy, and making the blub-blub lip noise. The only difference between the creative process o...

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Matt Bonner is an unlikely candidate for a fan-driven NBA All-Star campaign. The San Antonio Spurs center is averaging just 3.8 points and two rebounds per game coming off the bench this season. But his shooting percentage from downtown — 48.4 ...

Indie rock's most fearsome hoops duo is back! For years now, with much the same alacrity and tenacity with which their heart-stirring Montreal rock outfit collects impassioned fans, The Butler Brothers — Arcade Fire's Win and Will — have ...

Rocket Juice and the Moon feat. Erykah Badu, "Hey Shooter" So you're maybe thinking, "Hey, Grantland, didn't you just warn me that Damon Albarn's new Flea-and-Tony Allen-featuring band Rocket Juice and the Moon was escalating the oddball musica...

Over a week ago, an exhaustive list of individuals the Obama 2012 campaign hopes will help in some way, shape, or form leaked onto the interwebs. On this list are 194 individuals. Yes, that is a lot of people, but after a thorough examination, it bec...

A headline from Sunday's New York Times "Arts & Leisure" section: "Chris Martin of Coldplay Asks: What Would Bruce Do?" In the article, Martin explains he'd been "watching a lot about Darkness on the Edge of Town" and other "real albums" in preparati...

TBJ Rock the Court: Win Butler vs. Matt Bonner from The Basketball Jones on Vimeo. Last month Grantland alerted you to the existence of Rock the Court, a charity basketball tournament that — in the grand tradition of MTV's Rock N Jock series &...

Great news, everyone: on September 10 in Toronto, the charity event Rock the Court will offer you — you! — the chance to play basketball with multiple Grammy Award winner Win Butler. The Arcade Fire front man, a noted basketball aficionad...