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“If you can name the artist, you win five bucks.” This is how Track Star, one of the most popular gameshows on TikTok, captures its audience now half a million followers:with a recognizable hook and an outstretched hand. For each episode, host Jack Coyne walks around New York City and …

There have been countless renditions of Madonna’s 1989 hit single “Like a Prayer.” But if you open TikTok right now, chances are the one that will come up fastest is a choral version recorded for Marvel’s recent film Deadpool & Wolverine. And the Muppet that pops up with it? Well, …

On Nov. 8, Hannah Kobayashi, a 30-year-old woman from Honolulu, Hawaii, landed at the Los Angeles International Airport. According to a now-private Facebook post from her sister Sydni Kobayashi, Hannah was scheduled to catch a connecting flight from LAX to New York City, where she planned to spend time with …

S itting in a white armchair on the Sunday morning after Thanksgiving, the soft bayou light streaming into her family home, something is bugging Gypsy-Rose Blanchard. “It feels like a circus,” she tells Rolling Stone in her distinctive, high-pitched voice. All around her, there are family photos and reminders of …

This year’s presidential election was a historic one for weed, with both major presidential candidates endorsing marijuana legalization for the first time ever. Kamala Harris said that she would legalize adult-use cannabis at the federal level. At the same time, Donald Trump announced that he was backing Florida’s Amendment 3, …

This story was originally published in the June 6, 2002, issue of Rolling Stone. JOE FRANCIS has a gift. He can make more than half the girls he meets take their shirt off. He can make half of those girls take their panties off, too. He can make a straight-A …

“WATCH FOR 5 SECONDS TO PAY OFF HIS MEDICAL BILLS,” the text over Alexis Pruitt’s TikTok video reads. Speaking straight to the camera, Pruitt says she and her young kids are going to have a dance party and they hope you’ll stay and watch. The video cuts to Pruitt’s children, …

I t’s a hot summer night in 1969, and for those of a certain age — young enough to turn on, tune in, drop out — Steve Paul’s the Scene is your place. As a spectator, a musician, a hanger-on. A place where the music comes first, even if you …

When Emily Bear and Abigail Barlow were hit with a lawsuit from Netflix, it felt like their lives were over. Before they were Barlow & Bear, the two songwriters and composers were working in separate parts of the music industry from a young age. But after meeting in 2019, they …

The holidays call for family feasts, and everyone wants to bring the killer side dish that the table can’t stop raving about. Mac and cheese is a natural crowd-pleaser: hearty, homey, vegetarian, and — crucially — hard to mess up. Sure, we can have our disagreements about the little touches …