Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin ran to Fox News to explain that, despite his best efforts to throw down in the middle of a Senate hearing, “political correctness” is what stopped him from beating up a witness. On Tuesday, Mullin stood up during a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor …
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Since exploding into popular consciousness with XXX, a 2011 masterwork detailing his crazed life of sex, pills, and weed, Danny Brown has served as a lodestone for modern rap’s perilous embrace of hard drugs. The Detroit rapper utilized a manic, strangely hyper cadence seemingly fueled by too much Molly. More …
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The 1963 March on Washington did not merely come together on its own via a whim, a wish, and good will. It took years of strategizing, planning, building coalitions, dodging bureaucratic obstacles and opponents both within and outside the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. Students and veteran activists worked phone lines, …
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When it was released in 2010, Edgar Wright‘s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World was considered a disappointment. It grossed less than $50 million at the box office, on a reported production budget of $85 million. And the reviews, while mostly positive, were less than enthusiastically so. In hindsight, though, Wright’s …
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After nine years, the Regrettes are breaking up. The Los Angeles band, made up of Genessa Gariano, Brooke Dickson, Lydia Night and Drew Thomsen, announced their mutual decision to part ways. “If you’re reading this or you’ve been to a show or bought a record, you’ve given us all some …
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Billie Eilish recently shared that she feels a “protectiveness over” Olivia Rodrigo, who was born 14 months after the “What Was I Made For?” singer. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times published Tuesday, Eilish revealed that Rodrigo inspired her song “Goldwing.” “I think everybody’s experiences are so individual,” …
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A woman who claims porn star Ron Jeremy sexually assaulted her inside The Rainbow Bar & Grill four years ago sued the West Hollywood establishment for negligence Tuesday, claiming it allowed the “dangerous, highly sexualized and hostile environment” where the alleged attack took place. The new lawsuit, filed in Los …
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Lil Uzi Vert took to Instagram Tuesday to dispute that they agreed to play Rolling Loud California in March 2024, just hours after the event had announced the rapper as the festival’s Sunday headliner. “I never said I was doing rolling loud,” Uzi, who uses they/them pronouns, wrote in an …
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YouTube will soon require users to to disclose when their videos feature content made with artificial intelligence. As part of a blog post Tuesday on the company’s evolving approach to AI, the platform acknowledged AI’s potential to be used to generate content that can “mislead viewers — particularly if they’re …
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The BBC said it received five complaints about Russell Brand’s behavior from when the comedian hosted radio shows on the British public broadcaster between 2006 and 2008. Two of the complaints were submitted over the last two months, after the BBC launched a review of Brand’s time at the network …
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