It seems only appropriate that one of the fiercest protesters against the abuses of the Catholic Church in Ireland would make her voice heard from beyond. Only a few months after her death at 56, Sinead O’Connor’s unreleased “The Magdalene Song” premiered on the series finale of the six-part BBC …
Read More »A Shazam for People: Clearview's AI App Was a Hit Among the Rich and Powerful
When I first broke the story of Clearview AI in The New York Times in January 2020, people were shocked. Some were horrified. The tiny start-up had scraped 3 billion faces from Facebook, YouTube, Venmo and millions of other websites without anyone’s consent to build a groundbreaking facial recognition app. …
Read More »Sophia Loren Undergoes Surgery Following a Fall At Home
Sophia Loren is recovering after undergoing emergency surgery on Sunday. The 89-year-old Italian actress suffered several fractures after a bad fall at her home in Geneva. According to reports, Loren fell inside her bathroom and sustained several fractures to her hip and a fracture to her femur. On Sunday afternoon, …
Read More »Watch Lauryn Hill Perform With Fugees at Global Citizen Festival
Ready or not, the Fugees are making their performances a regular occurrence. Having only sporadically reunited on stage since 1996, the group recently announced they would play a handful of concerts as part of Lauryn Hill’s25thanniversary tour of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.The rap legend announced that she will embark …
Read More »'Kurt Was Jealous of Dave': New 'In Utero' Revelations
Thirty years after the release of Nirvana‘s final studio album, In Utero, there are somehow still new things to learn about the band, as original biographer Michael Azerrad proves in his upcoming expanded edition of his classic 1993 book, Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana. The new book, …
Read More »Terry Kirkman, Founding Member of the Association, Dead at 83
Terry Kirkman, a founding member of the Association who penned the band’s Sixties classics “Cherish” and “Everything That Touches You,” died on Saturday. He was 83. Kirkman’s wife, Heidi Berinstein Kirkman, confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that he died in his home in Montclair, California of congestive heart failure …
Read More »Taylor Swift Attends Kansas City Chiefs Game Amid Travis Kelce Dating Rumors
Looks like Taylor Swift accepted Travis Kelce‘s invitation, after all. Swift was spotted cheering on the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday, further fueling rumors of a potential romance between the singer and Chiefs tight end. As Kelce and his team took on the Chicago Bears, the singer …
Read More »Poll Showing Trump Leading Biden by 10 an 'Outlier,' Washington Post Says
A Washington Post-ABC News poll released Sunday shows President Joe Biden trailing Donald Trump by 10 percentage points nationally, though that number is “probably an outlier” in part due to other recent polls showing a tight contest, as the Post notes. Still, Biden’s disapproval rating remains relatively high, as shown …
Read More »Former President Says Four Indictments 'A Great Honor'
While presidents of the past may have felt honored by receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, or the Four Freedoms Award, former President Donald Trump said Sunday that what he felt was “a great honor” was being indicted four times in one year. “Four times!” he …
Read More »'The Super Models' Directors Didn't Want to 'Make a Puff Piece'
You know their names: Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, and Christy Turlington. The supermodel quartet reached instant fame and held the fashion industry in the palm of their hands in the Nineties. To filmmaker Roger Ross Williams, they were the first influencers with indelible power, photographed globally and enamored …
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