UPDATE (4/7):False alarm! It seems Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian only got “practice-married” in Las Vegas earlier this week. When Kardashian finally posted pictures of their ceremony on Instagram, it was with the caption: “Once upon a time in a land far, far away (Las Vegas) at 2am, after an …
Read More »No Charges for Cop Who Killed Amir Locke After Executing No-Knock Warrant
The police officer who shot and killed Amir Locke while executing a no-knock search warrant won’t face charges. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Hennepin County Attorney Michael Freeman announced the decision Wednesday, April 6. A joint statement called Locke’s death “a tragedy” and railed against no-knock warrants, but ultimately …
Read More »Anti-Abortion Activist Tries to Explain Just How She Wound Up With 5 Fetuses in Her Fridge
When the police department comes to your home to seize five fetuses you’re storing in a refrigerator, you’ve got some explaining to do. On Tuesday, anti-abortion rights activist Lauren Handy attempted to do just that. Handy, the director of activism at the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising group, says she contacted the …
Read More »Spectacle Meets Spectacle With Logan Paul's Opening Night at WrestleMania
ARLINGTON, Texas—Logan Paul has made a name as a walking Personal Brand Machine, who got his start on the now-defunct Vine, and currently commands 23 million subscribers on YouTube, where he promotes his sports drinks, music videos, and himself. This Saturday, he expanded into a place countless personas have been …
Read More »Chris Rock Says He's 'Still Processing' Will Smith Slap at Boston Shows
“So how was your weekend?” Chris Rock asked the sold out crowd at Boston’s Wilbur Theater Wednesday night, his first public appearance since Sunday’s calamitous Academy Awards ceremony. Earlier in the day, 3,000 miles away, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ board of governors held an emergency meeting …
Read More »Cole Sprouse Talks the Return of 'Borrasca' Podcast and Fame as He Pushes 30
Cole Sprouse is returning to a role he loves to play. Rolling Stone can announce the return of Qcode‘sBorrasca podcast for a second season, where Sprouse plays the role of Sam Walker in the spooky multi-episode series. “When I first signed on to the project, we didn’t really imagine that …
Read More »Police Find Five Fetuses in Anti-Abortion Activist's Home
Police in Washington, D.C. have discovered five fetuses in the home of an anti-abortion activist, according to a statement the Metropolitan Police provided Rolling Stone on Thursday. On Wednesday, Mar. 30, around 12:30 pm, the statement said, police responded to a tip about “potential bio-hazard material” at a house in …
Read More »The Viral Classroom Nazi Salute Video Has an Even Darker Backstory. I Lived It
The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama — where Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, and Denise McNair were murdered in a 1963 bombing before any of them got to see their 15th birthday — is a 10-minute drive from where I grew up. I don’t believe I …
Read More »The Will Smith Oscars Slap Made the Entire Internet Stupid
No event in recent history — not Harry Styles in a dress on the cover ofVogue,not changing the green M&M’s footwear, not even the horny Beto O’Rourke tweet — has inspired so many brain-dead takes as the Slap Heard ‘Round the World, a.k.a. the altercation between Will Smith and Chris …
Read More »Ezra Miller Accused of Bursting Into a Couple's Room and Threatening Them Hours After Bar Arrest
Ezra Miller is facing a temporary restraining order in Hawaii filed by a couple that claims he stormed into their bedroom and threatened them. The request for the temporary restraining order was filed Tuesday, March 29, just a day after Miller was arrested for disorderly conduct and harassment at a …
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