“If you ain’t got no money, take yo’ broke ass home!” If the lyrics of Fergie’s chart-topping hit “Glamorous” as a fitting soundtrack don’t clue you into the aesthetics of makeup brand Tarte’s recent influencer trip, the countless videos flooding TikTok for-you-pages certainly will. Last week, Tarte sent a group …
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Drea de Matteo’s phone is blowing up. “There’s a lot fucking going on over here,” the 52-year-old actress says when she picks up the call from Rolling Stone. “It’s like I have a fucking sex tape out there or something. Just kidding.” The bustling activity, at least, is no exaggeration: …
Read More »'My Generation Has Been Destroyed' — Inside the Mental Health Crisis Facing Michigan's Muslim Youth
This article was produced by Capital & Main in collaboration with Rolling Stone. As a boy, Rabih Darwiche would sprint for cover when the monthly test sirens ripped through his quiet suburban Detroit neighborhood. Darwiche’s terror was about more than the earsplitting roar alone: The tornado alarms took him back …
Read More »U.K. Broadcaster Files Criminal Complaint Against J.K. Rowling Citing Transphobia
A transgender journalist and reality TV personality in the U.K., India Willoughby, has reported Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling to police for misgendering her. “J.K. Rowling has definitely committed a crime,” she said in an interview with Byline TV. “I’m legally a woman. She knows I’m a woman, and she …
Read More »Cybertruck Fails Are a Daily Delight to the Haters
Elon Musk may not have engineered Tesla‘s Cybertruck himself, but he certainly had plenty of input on how to build a vehicle that looks like “the future,” as he has often said. And he’s been sure to advertise the truck as an extension of his gonzo brand, touting its supposedly …
Read More »They Practiced Their Instruments During Brain Surgery. Then They Played Nirvana Together
Robert Alvarez and Adrian Rivas both started playing their respective instruments — guitar and drums — at the age of 12. They shared a love of rock, especially the heavier kind, like grunge and metal. And, years later, each received the same devastating medical diagnosis: a brain tumor. Rivas and …
Read More »The Right Is Trying to Make Bud Light Happen All Over Again With a Doritos Boycott
Ever since right-wing influencers orchestrated a boycott of Anheuser-Busch products last year for collaborating with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney, they have been foaming at the mouth for a new product to boycott for incredibly stupid, hateful reasons. First, it was Frosted Flakes, due to its mascot posing for a photo …
Read More »She Took to the Internet to Mourn Her Baby's Death. People Blamed Her Instead
For the first three days after Veruca Salt brought her baby son Cash home from the hospital, she couldn’t sleep. She just couldn’t stop staring at him. “[At first] I was so scared to just be alone with him. I have this baby, and I didn’t have to do a …
Read More »'I'm an Internet Bitch': How TikTok Created a New Kind of Comedy Career
W hen Morgan Jay was cast on a prime-time TV show, he thought he’d finally gotten his big break. A musical comic since 2007, Jay was sure his 2019 multi-episode appearance on NBC’s Bring the Funny would take his career from long nights and low pay to ticket sales and …
Read More »'It's Like I'm Dancing With Death': Inside One of the World's Most Dangerous Games
I N THE COLISEUM, the bull stares down hundreds of men. He’s a half-ton killer, black, head white like a skull, horns curled. Bred for the fight. There’s violence in his DNA. The bull scans the crowd in the ring, alert to any challenge. The crowd watches for the animal’s …
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