After putting out two of the best albums — indie rock or otherwise — of 2024, MJ Lenderman and This Is Lorelei are linking up, with the former sharing a new version of the latter’s “Dancing in the Club.” Lenderman’s rendition of the tune is set to appear on the …
Read More »'No Other Land' Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal Freed, Says Co-Director
Following his attack by Israeli settlers and subsequent arrest by Israeli authorities, Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal — the co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land — has been freed. “After being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to …
Read More »Meet the College Kids Making 'Positive Masculinity' TikToks to Counter the Manosphere
In a video viewed over 2.8 million times, Mitch and Jack play a game. The rules are simple: They bring up a topic and then either respond affirmatively by saying “That’s what’s up” or negatively, by saying “What’s up with that?” On the list of things that are given the …
Read More »Republicans Are Trying (and Failing) to Defend Reckless War-Plans Group Chat
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Vice President J.D. Vance, and other high-ranking figures in Donald Trump’s administration recently used an unsecured Signal group chat to discuss plans to bomb Houthi militants in Yemen. The group chat somehow included journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of …
Read More »Former Social Security Chief Courts Florida Seniors Enraged by Musk's Cuts
MIAMI — On Friday night, former Social Security head Martin O’Malley faced some of the rage that Democratic and Republican members of Congress have been confronted with in recent weeks as the Trump administration ravages the federal government and threatens programs like Social Security. O’Malley was there to detail not …
Read More »Elon Musk Is Trying to Buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Last year, Elon Musk bought himself a president, now he’s following through on his promise to turn his billions towards down-ballot races — beginning with Wisconsin. After spending $290 million last election cycle to elect Donald Trump and Republicans, the Tesla billionaire and so-called Department of Government Efficiency chief has …
Read More »Pup 'Get Dumber' With Jeff Rosenstock on New Single Ahead of Co-Headlining Tour
Pup and Jeff Rosenstock are hoping the second time is the charm as they prepare to embark on the co-headlining Pup + Jeff Rosenstock Present: A Cataclysmic Rapture of Friendshipness tour. Their first time on the road together, back in 2015, was marred by broken down vans, band member injuries, …
Read More »Jon Stewart Wonders If He's Also in the Trump Admin's 'Bomb Yemen' Group Chat
Jon Stewart fittingly opened Monday’s episode of The Daily Show with the dumbest news of the day: That an Atlantic journalist was accidentally added to a group chat where high-ranking members of the Trump administration were discussing ostensibly classified plans to bomb Houthi militants in Yemen. And Stewart of course …
Read More »'The Studio' Is a Hilarious Love-Hate Letter to Hollywood
In the new showbiz comedy The Studio, Bryan Cranston has a recurring role as Griffin Mill, the craven movie executive played by Tim Robbins in the 1992 film The Player. It’s not the only homage that The Studio, co-created by and starring Seth Rogen, pays to Robert Altman’s classic movie …
Read More »Samia Faces Down the Monster
S tep into Samia’s fantasy world and you’ll find an alter ego that looks like her, but is entirely different. She wears a backward baseball cap on top of her long, curly, jet-black hair and sports denim Daisy Dukes. She lives in a balmy, emerald-green wetland. She’s completely unburdened by …
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