Who could have guessed that a weekly entertainment magazine born at the dawn of The Simpsons and CD-ROMs would go on to become its own cultural touchstone? When Entertainment Weekly launched in 1990, the idea — either revolutionary or delusional, depending on your framing — was to create a new space in journalism, a publication that didn't just cover what was new in movies and television and books and music (streaming was yet but a twinkle of a dream) but lived for it, from every angle.