Last week, President Donald Trump signed what is likely the most regressive U.S. tax-and-spending bill in U.S. history, giving the top one percent of families more than $1 trillion in tax cuts while slashing Medicaid health coverage and food assistance for the poor. It is also one of the worst …
Read More »Original Eagles Guitarist Bernie Leadon Comes to Terms With the Past in New Batch of Songs
Right before the Eagles played the final encore of their two-year, 109-date History of the Eagles Tour in July 2015, Glenn Frey walked up to guitarist Bernie Leadon and gave him a big hug. Leadon is the band’s founding guitarist and a co-writer of many of their early songs, including …
Read More »You Know the 'Crazy, Weird' Meg Stalter. Now Meet the Real Her
M eg Stalter was fighting in a hot tub. She had come to a water park in Wisconsin to relax between stops on her comedy tour, which was styled as a series of fake rallies for a rich, famous, and clueless person running for president. (I know this is a …
Read More »Paul McCartney Reveals Got Back 2025 North American Tour Dates
After teasing a trek earlier this week, Paul McCartney has revealed that his Got Back Tour will return to North America this fall, the Beatles legend’s first tour stateside in four years. The Got Back 2025 run — a nod to the 2022 tour of the same name, as well …
Read More »Former Superman Dean Cain Says Hollywood Has Made the Character Too 'Woke'
Dean Cain is not a fan of the direction Hollywood is taking Superman. The actor, who played the superhero on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Supermanfrom 1993 to 1997, said he is concerned about James Gunn‘s vision for the character. “How woke is Hollywood going to make this …
Read More »Lena Dunham Credits Taylor Swift for Connecting Her With 'Good Sex' Star Meg Ryan
Taylor Swift, the great uniter. Lena Dunham has credited the singer for connecting her with actress Meg Ryan, who Dunham cast in her upcoming Netflix film Good Sex opposite Natalie Portman. Speaking to Variety, Dunham confirmed that she convinced Ryan to join the film after running into her at an …
Read More »'Wicked' TV Special Featuring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo Sets Air Date
NBC will air a live Wicked special on Nov. 6. The two-hour special will be taped at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theater and will feature the film’s stars, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, as well as special guests, performing songs from the first movie. As the special is set to arrive …
Read More »Musk Claims New Version of 'MechaHitler' Chatbot May 'Discover New Technologies' This Year
Undeterred by the previous iteration of his “anti-woke” AI chatbot Grok running amok on X on Tuesday, adopting Nazi talking points, declaring itself “MechaHitler,” and authoring graphic scenes of violent sexual assault, Elon Musk oversaw a muted demo of the latest version of the model, Grok 4, on Wednesday evening. …
Read More »'Love Island USA' Contestant Cierra Ortega Apologizes for Using Racial Slur
Love Island USA contestant Cierra Ortega has addressed her removal from the hit dating reality show. A week before the finale, Ortega was dropped from Season Seven after the surfacing of social media posts from 2015 and 2020 in which she used a racial slur toward the Asian community. In …
Read More »Man Afraid to Ride Subway Named Head of NASA
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who has vehemently described the New York City subway as a hellscape, has been named to oversee NASA — putting him in charge of rocket ships that are far more dangerous than public transit. After Donald Trumppulled the nomination of tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman for the …
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