The average Formula One vehicle averages about 130 mph, though with the right person behind the wheel, you can push it up to 250 mph. (Don’t try this at home, kids.) You also need a great piece of machinery, of course, and a professional crew making sure that everything runs …
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After exchanging high praise earlier this year, SZA and Chappell Roan united for a wide-ranging conversation for Interview, in which they bonded over navigating the “pressure cooker” of celebrity and how everyone actually does give a fuck. Near the end of the conversation — which largely found Roan asking SZA …
Read More »What Happened to Kate Spade? This New Memoir Sheds Light on the Designer's Glamorous Life and Personal Demons
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Kate Spade left behind a trailblazing legacy in the fashion industry, and her preppy designs have been beloved by everyone from Taylor Swift to Kerry Washington and Mindy …
Read More »Sabrina Carpenter Cold-Plunges Before Every Show and 16 Other Things That Didn't Make Our Cover Story
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Sabrina Carpenter is a really good hang. “Most people who are friends with a pop star would be like, ‘People don’t know that she’s so funny,” says her best friend, Paloma Sandoval. “But actually, it’s this incredibly unique situation where everyone knows that. …
Read More »John C. Reilly Becomes Jack White's Titular 'Archbishop Harold Holmes' in New Video
John C. Reilly has read countless scripts throughout his career. But the one that landed him his latest role was slightly unusual. It’s not a script, but a song. When the actor first heard Jack White‘s “Archbishop Harold Holmes,” he wanted to step inside of it as the titular character. …
Read More »How Starbase, Elon Musk's New Company Town, Is Upending Texas' Rio Grande Valley
In the driving wind off the Gulf of Mexico, under the looming 480-foot-tall steel launch towers called “Mechazilla,” a group of local kids take turns whacking an Elon Musk-shaped piñata. A crowd laughs as the youngest, a girl who looks about four, slaps at Musk’s papier-mâché head with a thin …
Read More »'The Gilded Age' Star Morgan Spector Explains Why It Takes a Socialist to Play a Robber Baron
I n Season Three of The Gilded Age, George Russell prepares to risk it all. The fictional late-19th-century tycoon, played by Morgan Spector, has his sights set on conquering westward trade and travel with a transcontinental railroad project. It’s a monumental endeavor that requires all manner of smoky backroom dealmaking, …
Read More »Trump's $4 Trillion Plan to Raise Your Energy Bills
The Trump administration released three executive orders on nuclear energy on the Friday afternoon before the Memorial Day weekend — a time often used to dump bad news. And these orders were as disastrous as they come. With these orders, President Donald Trump has embraced a dangerous strategy to promote …
Read More »'Smoke' Starts Off a Hacky Cop Show — Until It Drops a Three-Alarm Twist
The first episode of Smoke, a new Apple TV+ miniseries about an arson investigator (Taron Egerton) and a cop (Jurnee Smollett) teaming up to catch two unrelated serial arsonists, opens with the dictionary definition of “creativity.” This is the sort of device that suggests anything but creativity is to be …
Read More »'Forgiveness Is Complicated': One Woman's Journey Following the Mother Emanuel Shootings
The Rev. Sharon Risher still vividly remembers the nightmarish evening of June 17, 2015. That’s when her mother, Ethel Lance, and cousins Susie Jackson and Tywanza Sanders were gunned down at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. They had been attending an evening Bible study at the …
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