California firefighter Michael Clark — a.k.a. @WildlandMike — has gone above and beyond his day job over the past few months. For his 50,000 followers on TikTok, Clark is a constant source of good looks, deadpan humor, and informative debunking of common misconceptions and myths surrounding wildfires. “To me, it …
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Saturday Night Live channel-surfed between Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s “Dueling Town Halls” for their latest cold open sketch. “We now present a rebroadcast of those town halls the way most Americans watched them… Flipping back and forth, trying to decide between a Hallmark movie and an alien autopsy,” SNL …
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Do you believe in a world where you can jet off to Europe for work? Where stilettos and cobblestones go together like wine and cheese? Where nobody knows your name, but they’re inexplicably glad you came? Well, Netflix has a show for you, and it’s called Emily in Paris. “I’ve …
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Selena Gomez, Jeff Tweedy, Stacey Abrams, Bernie Sanders and more will participate in Rolling Stone’s new get-out-the-vote music and conversation series, “Fridays for Unity.” The two-part virtual event will take place October 16th and 30th and feature a mix of unique conversations, musical performances and special guest appearances. Each event …
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Rep. Katie Porter became a breakout star of Congress’ class of 2018 by wielding a dry-erase marker. The California congresswoman, a former law student of Elizabeth Warren’s, has spent the past two years exposing the arrogance and incompetence of Trump lackeys and American CEOs by asking very simple questions, often …
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Megan Thee Stallion tackled the myriad ways black women remain “disrespected and disregarded in so many areas of life” in a new op-ed for The New York Times. Opening her piece by noting that black women are once again expected to play a pivotal role in electing Democratic candidates this …
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There was a fleeting moment, in the beginning of this unprecedented global pandemic, when I was released from the gravity of my skin. Our country was quarantined, isolated, imagining the worst from an invisible enemy. In Seattle, everyone wore masks, myself included. The world had emptied, and for the first …
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Pleased to Meet Me was the sound of the Replacements trying for once. The band’s previous five LPs were snarky slacker masterpieces full of chintzy songs about hating music ’cause it’s got too many notes, ironic Kiss covers, and the occasional tender ballad, and their concerts were more like drunken …
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Tim Heidecker wonders when cemeteries will be converted into coffee shops and parking lots in the video for “Property,” a track from the comedian/musician’s latest LP Fear of Death. Heidecker paired his cautionary tale about capitalism with an absurd video, directed by James Hankins, that draws from Fear of Death’s …
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Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins) and Richie Thomas (Dif Juz) are putting out a new album under the project name Lost Horizons. The double LP, titledIn Quiet Moments, will be released in two parts on December 4th, 2020, and February 26th, 2021, respectively, and will feature collaborations with Porridge Radio, Marissa …
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