The Tinder swindler and Anna Delvey have some competition. On Thursday, a man from Rhode Island pled guilty to federal criminal charges of securities fraud and wire fraud after admitting he lied to investors and stole more than $4,200,000, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Now, he faces up to …
Read More »Victim's Family Wants to See the Evidence That Released Adnan Syed
The family of murdered high school student Hae Min Lee has requested an evidentiary hearing regarding the decision to vacate the conviction of Adnan Syed in her death, claiming prosecutors treated the family in a “callous and unconstitutional manner” by not giving them enough notice or an opportunity to comment …
Read More »Fox News Blames Biden for Conspiracy Theorist Beating Nancy Pelosi's Husband With a Hammer
Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was savagely beaten with a hammer early Friday morning after an intruder looking for his wife broke into their San Francisco home. He was taken to a hospital, where he’s undergoing surgery. Fox News responded the same way it does to pretty …
Read More »'Descendant' and 'All That Breathes' Find Hope in Two Different Hells
One of the finest moments in Margaret Brown’s Descendant, which is now streaming on Netflix, arrives by way of a drone shot that unexpectedly alerts us to where we really are. The shot begins at ground level, on a quiet street in Mobile, Alabama, and expands upward and outward to …
Read More »Manuel Turizo Talks Wild Success of 'La Bachata' and Singing with Coldplay: 'I Did That!'
Manuel Turizo was in Madrid when Chris Martin called. Coldplay was on tour in South America and the band wanted the Colombian star to join the band in Bogotá to perform his smash hit “La Bachata.” Turizo immediately agreed and caught a flight to his native Colombia for the show. …
Read More »Rita Wilson Brings Her 'Duets' Album to Life at New York City Residency
Rita Wilson sings with Willie Nelson, Smokey Robinson, Tim McGraw, Vince Gill and more on her latest album Rita Wilson Now & Forever: Duets. Released in late September, the record finds the singer-actress interpreting some of her favorite songs of the Seventies, like the Bee Gees’ “Massachusetts,” Paul Simon’s “Slip …
Read More »The Death and Rebirth of Natalia Lafourcade
Natalia Lafourcade received a standing ovation at Carnegie Hall before she uttered a single note. The singer-songwriter filled the venue with her unmistakable voice during a dazzling performance on Oct. 27, appearing onstage in a shiny black dress with a long train, her loose hair a complement to the flow …
Read More »Paul Pelosi's Alleged Attacker Raged About 'Pedos,' Shared QAnon Beliefs
David DePape, the man now charged with attempted homicide and a raft of other felonies for allegedly attacking Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with a hammer in the couple’s San Francisco home early this morning, has a long history of sharing extreme ideas online, including several conspiracy …
Read More »Elon Musk Won't Reinstate Trump, or Any Other Banned Twitter Accounts, Until After Forming 'Content Moderation Council'
Not long after Elon Musk announced he was buying Twitter (and before he tried to back out of it), some of the platform’s famously banned figures, like controversial congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and white nationalist Nick Fuentes, started daydreaming of a possible return to the platform. Musk hadn’t explicitly said …
Read More »Taylor Swift Knew She 'Wasn't Going to Get' 2012 'Les Misérables' Role Before Her 'Nightmare' Audition
Taylor Swift knew she wasn’t going to get a role in 2012’s Les Misérables before she even had her “nightmare” audition. On Friday, Swift visited BBC One’s The Graham Norton Show and joked about her screen test for the film adaptation of the Broadway classic. “Basically, I was up for …
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