Given 500 guesses, it’s unlikely anyone would completely nail the certifiably nonsensical lineup of guests that hit the red carpet together at the Nashville premiere of alt-right provocateur Candace Owens’ “documentary” The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM. The bingo-card-from-hell featured none other than recent …
Read More »The Comedy Store Vinyl Box Set Collects Unreleased Sets From Robin Williams, Bob Saget, More Stand-Up Legends
Unreleased comedy sets by stand-up legends like Robin Williams, Richard Pryor, David Letterman, Bob Saget and many more — all recorded at Los Angeles’ famed the Comedy Store venue — will feature in an upcoming Vinyl Me, Please Anthology collection. 50 Years of the Comedy Store, a limited edition 5-LP …
Read More »Eric André Sues Georgia Cops Over Alleged Racial Profiling at Airport During Pre-Boarding Drug Search
Eric André and fellow comedian Clayton English are accusing police in Georgia of racially profiling and illegally stopping them for pre-boarding searches at the Atlanta airport. The lawsuit, filed in federal court Tuesday, Oct. 11, is focused on the so-called “jet bridge interdiction” program at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. As …
Read More »Breonna Taylor's Boyfriend Opens Up About Night of Police Shooting: I Thought They Were Going to 'Kill Me' Too
Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenny Walker, talked in-depth about the night his girlfriend was shot and killed by police on the new episode of Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk. Taylor and Walker were in their apartment on the night of March 13, 2020, when Louisville Metro Police executed a no-knock …
Read More »Lawsuit: Health Influencer's Diet Made People Sick
It reads like a too-crazy-to-be-true plot line: The girl who had to have part of her colon removed after she mega-dosed fiber on a diet beloved by celebrities and socialites. Around 2016, when she was in her twenties, the woman says, she paid $6,000 to F-Factor, the New York City-based …
Read More »Alex Jones Mocks Jury Ordering Him to Pay $1 Billion to Sandy Hook Families
A jury has found InfoWars founder Alex Jones liable for $965 million worth of damages in a defamation suit brought by the family members of eight victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. The verdict, delivered on Wednesday, comes after Jones was ordered to pay $45.2 million to families …
Read More »After Spending Billions on the Metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg Is Left Standing on Virtual Legs
Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of a truly immersive virtual landscape for work, play and socializing — “the metaverse” — has been plagued by technical challenges and criticism from the start. But that’s to be expected of what purports to be a game-changing Silicon Valley innovation. The corporate line seems to be …
Read More »How a Horse Molestation Joke Set the Crypto World on Fire
The cryptocurrency scene is the wild west. One day, members of your decentralized finance platform are electing you to serve as CEO. The next, you’re fending off rumors of fraud and jokes about bestiality. This is the embattled position that the chief (or “chef”) of SushiSwap, an exchange and lending …
Read More »A Sin City Murder, an Arrest, and Now a First Amendment Showdown
The fatal stabbing in September of longtime Las Vegas investigative reporter Jeff German has sparked a legal fight for control of his laptops and cellphone with what press advocates say threatens journalists’ ability, even in death, to protect confidential sources and unpublished work. A Las Vegas judge on Tuesday sided …
Read More »'Fat Bear Week' Hit By Voter-Fraud Attempt
On Tuesday, Oct. 11, interested parties will get to weigh in on the final voting for Fat Bear Week, an annual tournament competition between the brown bears of Brooks River in Katmai National Park, Alaska. The popular online event asks people to observe just how chunky certain bears have become …
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