Charlie Puth‘s strong new album, Charlie, is the product of two break-ups —one with a longtime business associate, the other with a girlfriend. “It was a loss at one time of two relationships that I thought I needed to succeed,” he says in a revealing interview on the new episode …
Read More »Kanye West: 'Have I Reached Alex Jones Territory Yet?'
The second installment of Kanye West’s interview with Fox Host Tucker Carlson capped off a controversial week for the rapper, who received widespread condemnation after he displayed T-shirts sporting the racist rallying cry “white lives matter” at his Monday. West found safe harbor with primetime cable’s resident promoter of white …
Read More »'Triangle of Sadness': Vomit and Shit and Class Warfare, Oh My
The saying goes that we should “eat the rich,” but after watching the long, central set piece of Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness, in which a crowd of financially overstuffed yachters slip-n’-slides through volcanic sprays of liquid shit and pools of their own vomit, who has the appetite, really? One …
Read More »'I Knew Something Was Wrong': Anthony Rapp Testifies at Kevin Spacey Civil Trial
Actor Anthony Rapp testified about the 1986 incident at the center of his lawsuit against Kevin Spacey on Friday in a Manhattan courtroom on the second day of the civil trial. Rapp, who was 14 at the time of the alleged encounter with a 26-year-old Spacey, first alleged in 2017 …
Read More »President Biden's Weed Pardons Leave Thousands of People Behind
After continued pressure from Democrats, the Biden administration has taken a stance on what they want the future of American drug policy to look like. Announced Thursday, the president’s executive order pardoned all prior federal offenses of simple possession of marijuana, and announced new efforts to pressure larger state reforms. …
Read More »Herschel Walker Asked Girlfriend to Have a Second Abortion: Report
The woman who accused Herschel Walker of paying for her abortion in 2009 is now revealing that the Republican senate candidate from Georgia urged her to have a second one. On Friday, Walker’s ex-girlfriend told New York Times that Walker asked her to terminate her pregnancy in 2011, but she …
Read More »Justice Department Asking if Trump Stashed Documents in Trump Tower
Federal investigators have asked multiple witnesses if they knew whether Donald Trump had stashed any highly sensitive government documents at Trump Tower in Manhattan or at his private club in Bedminster, New Jersey, a person familiar with the matter and another source briefed on the situation tell Rolling Stone. The …
Read More »Richard Linklater's Next Project: Taking Down Greg Abbott
With little more than a month to go in Beto O’Rourke’s bid to unseat Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, the opposition to the Republican incumbent has landed a high-profile native Houstonian in its efforts. Mothers Against Greg Abbott, a self-described “badass mamas’ PAC,” has enlisted Oscar-nominated Boyhood director Richard Linklater …
Read More »Liverpool to Host 2023 Eurovision Song Contest on Behalf of Ukraine
Liverpool will host the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest on behalf of Ukraine, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and BBC revealed Friday. Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra were named the winners of the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest earlier this year,and as champions, Ukraine would customarily host the 2023 event. But as Russia – …
Read More »Boy Band PrettyMuch Announces Nick Mara Is 'Formally Leaving the Band,' But Will Continue as Fourpiece
The boys of PrettyMuch are saying goodbye to one of their members. On Friday, the group — responsible for hits like “Phases” and “Summer On You” — announced that after “some very difficult conversations as a band,” Nick Mara had decided to leave the group to “take on new endeavors …
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