TikTok users are claiming censorship and a right-wing takeover of the social media app after noticing their accounts seem to be automatically unfollowing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.) —and that when they try to refollow, it just happens again. But according to TikTok, what users see as a conspiracy is simply …
Read More »Dave Matthews Band Plot 2025 North American Tour
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Dave Matthews Band have announced a North American tour during the spring and summer months. The trek kicks off on April 27 in New Orleans and cruises through North American cities such as Boston; Cincinnati; Chicago; Richmond, Virginia; Inglewood, California; and Quincy, Washington, …
Read More »Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone Help Their Partners Pull Off a Ruse in 'The Wedding Banquet' Trailer
The first trailer for Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone’s remake of the 1993 queer comedy The Wedding Banquet is here and it doesn’t disappoint. Based on Ang Lee’s 1993 film, The Wedding Banquet stars Yang and Gladstone alongside Kelly Marie Tran and Han Gi-chan. The film shows the dynamics of …
Read More »Jim James, King Gizzard & the Wizard Lizard, Mac DeMarco Feature on L.A. Fire Relief Benefit LP
Mac DeMarco, King Gizzard & the Wizard Lizard, Jim James and the War on Drugs are just a few of the dozens of artists featured on a new benefit album released on Tuesday to help raise funds following the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles. Super Bloom: A Benefit for Los …
Read More »'Opus' Gives us John Malkovich, Pop Superstar
Back in the 1990s, there was no bigger musical superstar than Alfred Moretti. “Global” doesn’t begin to describe his level of fame. His particular brand of old-school glam rock, new-school electro-pop and sheer charisma meant he topped every chart imaginable. He reinvented genres, cavorted with presidents and popes, broke Cindy …
Read More »Right-Wingers Bash Anti-Trans Lawmaker for Unwittingly Touting DEI
As President Donald Trump moves to purge DEI and “woke” programs from all swaths of the federal government in a frenzy of executive orders and directives, his supporters are cannibalizing one of their own. In 1999, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) became the first woman to graduate from The Citadel military …
Read More »Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Extend Restless Leg Tour
After successful runs in 2023 and 2024, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler announced their Restless Leg comedy tour is back again in 2025. Extending the duo’s first-ever live tour into this year, new dates for The Restless Leg Tour begin on March 29 starting in Florida. The tour will also …
Read More »Green Day, Hozier, Fall Out Boy Lead Minnesota Yacht Club Festival
Hozier, Fall Out Boy, and Green Day will headline Minnesota Yacht Club Festival, which will expand from two days to three in its second annual run at Harriet Island Regional Park in St. Paul, Minnesota, and will take place from July 18 – July 20. Presale tickets go on sale …
Read More »'Paradise' Is a Political Thriller With a Very Big, Oddly Bland Twist
This post contains spoilers for the first episode of Paradise, which Hulu released over the weekend. When This Is Us debuted in the fall of 2016, its pilot episode concluded with a twist that recontextualized everything we had been watching to that point: Instead of telling the parallel, contemporaneous stories …
Read More »The Director of 'The Colors Within' Has a Message: 'It's Going to Be OK'
In much of today’s filmmaking, from superhero movies to TikTok videos, time is compressed, speeding the action along much faster than it could ever go in reality. In the animated worlds meticulously crafted by Japanese director Naoko Yamada, however, life moves gloriously, realistically slow. Schoolchildren walk at a measured pace, …
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