Spencer Kornhaber

Spencer Kornhaber is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic, where he edits the Entertainment channel. More

Before coming to The Atlantic, he worked as an editor for AOL's Patch.com and as a staff writer at Village Voice Media's OC Weekly. He has also written for Spin, The AV Club, RollingStone.com, Field & Stream, and The Orange County Register.

R.E.M. Breaks Up: It's the End of the Band as We Know It

R.E.M. Breaks Up: It's the End of the Band as We Know It

The path-breaking rock act headed by Michael Stipe has called it quits, 31 years after forming More »

The Story Behind the Loveliest Rock Album of the Year (So Far)

The Story Behind the Loveliest Rock Album of the Year (So Far)

Breaking down Girls' 'Father, Son, Holy Ghost,' track by track, with singer Christopher Owens More »

Lou Reed and Metallica Release Song Clip; World Is Not Amused

Lou Reed and Metallica Release Song Clip; World Is Not Amused

The snippet's 30-second runtime hasn't prevented snark from accumulating around it More »

How 'Star Wars' Got Made

How 'Star Wars' Got Made

Revisiting a 1979 'Atlantic' profile of series creator George Lucas More »

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Eddie Murphy Agrees to Host the Oscars, Deadline Reports

Fall Music Preview: 24 New Albums to Check Out

Fall Music Preview: 24 New Albums to Check Out

From Wilco to Metallica to Coldplay to Björk, a batch of new records for a new season More »

Quote of the Day: Jack White's Insane Clown Posse Obsession, Revealed

Quote of the Day: Jack White's Insane Clown Posse Obsession, Revealed

When Mozart, the White Stripes, and Juggalos collide More »

The Geeky Lesson of the Magic the Gathering Dating Kerfuffle

The Geeky Lesson of the Magic the Gathering Dating Kerfuffle

Really, we're still making fun of nerds? Really? More »

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David 'Honeyboy' Edwards, the Last Surviving Delta Blues Legend, Dies

Lady Gaga and Britney Spears Share a Surreal Moment at the MTV VMAs

Lady Gaga and Britney Spears Share a Surreal Moment at the MTV VMAs

When a drag-king artiste steals the spotlight from an icon of conventional prettiness More »

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Hurricane Irene Brings Second-Worst Box Office Weekend of 2011

The Straightforward Sensuality of Beyonce's New '1+1' Video

The Straightforward Sensuality of Beyonce's New '1+1' Video

More than ever, she's relying on the "Beyonce=hot" equation More »

Quote of the Day: Qaddafi's Fall vs. 'A Visit From the Goon Squad'

Quote of the Day: Qaddafi's Fall vs. 'A Visit From the Goon Squad'

Maybe dictators can't have their images rehabilitated after all. More »

Quote of the Day: What It's Like to Write a Box-Office Flop

Quote of the Day: What It's Like to Write a Box-Office Flop

The 'Conan' screenwriter on watching his film fail More »

The Joyless Sex of The Weeknd

The Joyless Sex of The Weeknd

The year's most hyped new act makes music about the dark side of seduction on 'Thursday' More »

The Dream Behind the New Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in D.C.

The Dream Behind the New Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in D.C.

Bonnie Fisher and Boris Dramov of the ROMA design group explain the thought process that went into the creation of the new national monument More »

Lil Wayne Just the Latest to Try and Kill the Traditional Album Release Date

Lil Wayne Just the Latest to Try and Kill the Traditional Album Release Date

A concise history of supposedly game-changing record debuts More »

Sex-Crazed Authors, Deadly Reality TV: The Week's Best Pop-Culture Writing

Sex-Crazed Authors, Deadly Reality TV: The Week's Best Pop-Culture Writing

Our weekly round-up of the most intriguing articles about entertainment we've come across More »

5 Dead at Pukkelpop: Why Do Concert Stages Keep Collapsing?

5 Dead at Pukkelpop: Why Do Concert Stages Keep Collapsing?

Big events, slack regulation may be to blame for a recent wave of horrifying live-music accidents More »

'Snakes on a Plane,' 5 Years Later

'Snakes on a Plane,' 5 Years Later

The meme-as-movie, which turns five today, was both a relic of its time and a sign of things to come More »

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Photos of Tornado Damage in Moore, Oklahoma

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