Playwright Anton Chekhov believed that if you place a gun onstage in the first act of a production, it had better go off in the second, and Coco Jones believes that if you’re going to title an album, Why Not More? you damn well better have more to offer. Only …

Luigi Mangione’s legal team filed a motion to dismiss the New York state murder charges against him in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, arguing that the cases against the suspect — Mangione also faces the death penalty in a federal case — amount to double jeopardy. Mangione, who …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The Golden State Warriors and the Houston Rockets have been trading blows in one of the better first-round NBA Playoff series. Going into Game Six, the Warriors are …

O n a late spring afternoon (that doesn’t feel like April), Prospect Heights’ Leland Eating and Drinking House is pretty empty. Four people are sitting at tables in the upscale cafe, chatting over a playlist of early ‘00s hits from artists like Ashanti. Eventually, Billy Woods arrives wearing a Black …

“If you give me another chance, I’m probably gonna fuck it up anyway” — now that’s some admirable self-knowledge. The Toronto punk boys in Pup are veterans by now, going strong on their fifth album Who Will Look After the Dogs? Twelve years past their frantic, funny debut, they still …

The most recent press tour Blake Lively participated in ended in an avalanche of legal battles when she sued her It Ends With Us director and co-star Justin Baldoni last year. Now, the actress is making the rounds to promote her latest film, Another Simple Favor. She’s been able to …

A few weeks after the November 2024 election, Allison Riggs and her husband were over at her parents’ house in Durham, North Carolina, for dinner. Riggs, a candidate for state Supreme Court, was still waiting for her race to be called, but she wasn’t overly concerned with the delay. A …

It’s been a bumpy road for Halo developers Bungie over the last few years. After releasing its last big game, Destiny 2, in 2017, the once-industry leading studio has mostly focused on frequent updates and upheavals surrounding the cooperative online shooter — which have fluctuated in quality between middling (2023’s …

Russell Brand appeared in a London court for the first time since being charged with rape, indecent assault, and sexual assault last month, The Associated Press reports. At the largely procedural appearance at the Westminster Magistrates’ court on Friday, May 2, Brand was granted conditional bail and read the charges …

There is an alt-timeline in which Rust, writer-director Joel Souza’s pulpy and pathos-fueled Western, is just another tale of an outlaw in his autumn years. It’s simply the latest entry in a genre whose century-plus history is filled with similarly modest sagebrush epics. After a brief theatrical run, a slightly …