The House Oversight Committee is holding a hearing to dig into why Twitter suppressed the New York Post‘s reporting on Hunter Biden‘s laptop. The executives involved have already admitted the decision — made because they believed it violated the platform’s hacked materials policy — was a mistake. Nevertheless, Republicans are …
Read More »Ron Jeremy Declared 'Not Competent' to Stand Trial for Rape, Committed to Mental Health Facility
Los Angeles judge found porn star Ron Jeremy incompetent to stand trial for allegedly sexually assaulting 21 women in January, stating that he “suffers from an incurable neurocognitive decline.” Now, the 69-year-old born Ronald Jeremy Hyatt has been committed to a state-run mental health hospital in California. Jeremy was admitted …
Read More »Jeff Tweedy Breaks Down the Music That Inspired Him in Third Book 'World Within a Song'
Jeff Tweedy, Wilco frontman and prolific blogger, has penned his third book World Within a Song, due out in November. Much like Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song and Bono’s Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, World Within a Song finds Tweedy writing about over 50 songs that inspired him …
Read More »How Bill Russell Paved the Way for LeBron James and So Many Others
Mere hours after LeBron James broke the NBA’s all-time scoring record, one held for decades by the great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the two-part documentary Bill Russell: Legend debuted on Netflix. Directed by Sam Pollard (MLK/FBI), it’s a three-hour-plus survey of the life and career of the basketball legend, civil rights icon, …
Read More »Ready, Set, Go: Monoprice Launches Affordable Racing Simulator Rigs For Gamers
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. With Formula 1: Drive to Survive Season 5 arriving on Feb 24th, many of us are loading up our Xbox consoles, PlayStations or PCs and playing F1 22. …
Read More »Duran Duran to Embark on 'Future Past' North American Tour
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. After kicking off 2023 with a New Year’s Eve performance in Times Square, Duran Duran will keep the live vibes going this spring when they embark on a …
Read More »Bad Bunny, Christina Aguilera, Jeremy Pope Score Top Honors at 2023 GLAAD Media Awards
The top honors at the 2023 GLAAD Media Awards will be presented to Jeremy Pope, Bad Bunny, and Christina Aguilera. Scheduled to be held at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on March 30, the ceremony will celebrate the trio across three separate categories for their impact on, and support …
Read More »Roger Waters Says Ukraine Invasion Was 'Not Unprovoked' at UN Security Council
At Russia’s request, Pink Floyd founding member Roger Waters spoke at the United Nations Security Council meeting on Wednesday. The musician’s address was largely an anti-war broadside, as he condemned the for-profit military industrial complex and stressed the devastating toll of war, both on people and the environment. As the …
Read More »'Hi-Fi Rush' Is a Visually Lush — But Tediously Choreographed — Combat Game
Rhythm games, as a rule, have largely been ignored over the past decade. Though Guitar Hero made a splash in the early 2000s and spawned a wave of me-too music titles that persisted throughout the late 2010s, the genre has all but evaporated. Long-running franchises like Dance Dance Revolution and …
Read More »Black Women's 'Sex and the City' Is Back to Make Us Feel Seen
When Harlem first aired in December 2021, Camille — the show’s protagonist, played by Meagan Good — reckoned with the changes to the once predominantly Black neighborhood. “The number of actual dateable men is bleak,” she lectured both to her television audience and a room of fictional students at Columbia …
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