Parenting and gender identity are more complex topics than Ne-Yo treated them during his recent interview with Gloria Velez for VladTV. During their conversation, uploaded on Saturday, the musician questioned parents who allow their children to have a say in how they identify, asking: “When did it become a good …
Read More »'Passages' Is One of the Year's Best Films — and in a Ratings Battle
“I wanted to make a movie of pleasure,” offers Ira Sachs. “For me, that means skin is revealed. Skin is part of what cinema can offer in a way that creates a kind of… horny environment for the audience and the actors.” Sachs, the veteran indie filmmaker behind intimate dramas …
Read More »See Billie Eilish Perform 'Billie Eilish' With Armani White at Osheaga Fest
Last summer, rapper Armani White scored a viral hit with “Billie Eilish,” his semi-ode to the big t-shirt-wearing singer. Eilish herself headlined Montreal’s Osheaga Festival Saturday and, with White also on the fest’s lineup, she brought out the rapper to deliver the track during her set. During the latter half …
Read More »MTG Claims Prosecuting Trump Is 'Communism' But Wants to Impeach Biden
It’s an old Republican trope, to claim everything Democrats do is communism. But Marjorie Taylor Greene took it to the extreme, as she is wont to do, claiming that with the indictments of Donald Trump, “Americans are actually seeing what communism really looks like.” “They have no policies to run …
Read More »Trump: I Will 'IMMEDIATELY' Ask for New Judge, New Venue in Jan. 6 Trial
Just two days after prosecutors requested a protective order to prevent Donald Trump from posting on social media about the legal case regarding his actions to subvert the 2020 election results, the very shouty former president shared multiple crazed all-caps messages to Truth Social about exactly that. Trump posted to …
Read More »Tomorrow x Together Bring Cheer, Pusha T Delivers Dope Set on Lollapalooza 2023 Day 3
The third day of Lollapalooza 2023 highlighted the big presence of several South Korean acts this year, including Tomorrow x Together headlining for the first time on Saturday (they performed earlier in the day in 2022) and the fest also featured its first-ever K-pop girl group NewJeans on Thursday, marking …
Read More »Trump's Lawyer Ignores Violent Insurrection, Says America Had 'Peaceful Transition of Power'
Donald Trump‘s attorney John Lauro has made some wild claims to defend his client, the latest of which is that America had a “peaceful transition of power” from Trump to Biden — ignoring the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Trump “took what he was entitled to do,” Lauro …
Read More »Lostprophets Singer and Convicted Pedophile Ian Watkins Stabbed in Prison
Former Lostprophets singer and convicted pedophile Ian Watkins sustained multiple stab wounds after being held hostage by other inmates in the British prison where he is currently serving a 29-year sentence on sex offenses involving young children. Following the incident, Watkins was hospitalized with injuries the Sky News reported were …
Read More »'Winning Time' Season Two Is an Air Ball From the Free-Throw Line
Throughout the Season Two premiere of HBO’s basketball drama Winning Time, various characters, from Lakers assistant coach Pat Riley (Adrien Brody) to Boston Celtics general manager Red Auerbach (Michael Chiklis) talk about how difficult it is to repeat as champions. The real Riley would eventually refer to this as “the …
Read More »Migrants Are Stuck in NYC's Shelter System. What's the City Doing to Get Them Out?
It’s midday in midsummer and dozens of men and women are crouching, splayed out on cardboard, or standing in midtown Manhattan, beaten down by the heat. After a journey that’s taken many of them across an ocean or through a dangerous jungle — past multiple border enforcement agents demanding payment …
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