Sharing the gift of a holiday song is becoming something of a tradition for BTS member V. This year, the singer crooned his way through a shimmering piano melody on his rendition of the classic tune “It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas.” The offering comes at the conclusion …
Read More »'Choke Me Daddy' Memes Are Getting the Academic Treatment
Human sexuality is vast, diverse and ever-shifting. Yet in the mid-2010s, the internet began to move toward something like consensus on an erotic behavior that has traditionally been outside the mainstream: choking. Public figures like President Obama and Pope Francis received countless Twitter replies from people exhorting them to “choke …
Read More »Pardison Fontaine Stands With Megan Thee Stallion as Tory Lanez Trial Nears End: 'I Wouldn't Wish This On Anyone'
Megan Thee Stallion‘s boyfriend of more than two years, artist and songwriter Pardison Fontaine, has been a staple in the rapper’s inner circle in the lead-up to and through the duration of the felony assault trial against Tory Lanez, who allegedly shot her during an altercation in July 2020. Despite …
Read More »That Time Loretta Lynn Sang About Being at the Grand Ole Opry on Christmas Night
In its nearly 100-year history, few events have stopped the Grand Ole Opry broadcasts. And while each calendar year is different, the Opry’s weekend shows, now on Friday and Saturday nights, have more than a few times, including this year, fallen on Christmas Eve and/or Christmas Day. Back on Christmas …
Read More »Rob Sheffield's Top 25 Songs of 2022
Give 2022 some credit—any year with Kate Bush crashing Top 40 radio can’t be all bad. So let’s celebrate a superbly crazy year for music, when brilliant tunes kept exploding all over the stylistic map. These are my 25 favorite songs of 2022. (Although many other gems are over on …
Read More »'Women Talking' Shatters the Silence Around Sexual Abuse
Some want to stand their ground and fight — after all, this is their home, too. Many want to leave and start anew. There’s an option to vote for doing nothing, but really, the days of simply enduring and ignoring are long gone. The choices that a group of women …
Read More »'Babylon' Is a Lame Hollywood Orgy of Sex, Drugs, and Margot Robbie
Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, in theaters Dec. 23, is a movie that should probably hit harder than it does. It is yet another of this year’s magic of the movies movies, flying under the guise of something decidedly more ambivalent. It is a tribute to the joyous and nasty realities of …
Read More »The Search for Guns N' Roses' Lost Masterpiece
I n the parking lot of a Panera, just off I-95 in Stafford, Virginia, Rick Dunsford climbed into the passenger seat of a white Ford F-350 pick-up. Depending whose account you believe, he was holding either $12,000 or $15,000 in cash. It was late afternoon on a Friday in July …
Read More »Paris Shooting: Three Killed and Several Injured in Attack at Kurdish Cultural Center
A gunman opened fire at a Kurdish Cultural Center in Paris Friday, killing three people and injuring three others, reports the Associated Press. A 69-year-old French man was arrested and placed in police custody. While names of the victims have not yet been released, Paris Prosecutor Laure Beccuau confirmed three …
Read More »Beck and Dave Grohl Roar Through 'E-Pro' for Hanukkah
Beck took to the stage for the fifth night of Hanukkah Sessions, roaring through a rendition of “E-Pro” with Dave Grohl, Greg Kurstin, and the bird and the bee bandmate Inara George. TheHanukkah Sessions,which was launched by Grohl and Kurstinback in 2020, continues to celebrate the holiday by sharingcoversof songs …
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