If you want a refresher course on the incredible, unique power of Joni Mitchell‘s music, take a trip back to Gordon Lightfoot’s living room. It’s 1975, and Mitchell is traveling with Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour, wearing a black beret and strumming an acoustic guitar on a new song …
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T HE GREATEST BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU fighter in the world is looking to fight me. “Put your hands up,” Rickson Gracie tells me as he advances. “Like you’re talking like an Italian.” I raise my hands as he lunges toward my head. “Don’t let me touch your face.” Gracie — the …
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Got a few seconds? Then lend your ears — you might just have the answer to a question that has perplexed forensic audio obsessives for years. Before the days of apps like Shazam, trying to identify an unfamiliar song was a team effort. WatZatSong, a social network dating back to …
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The rocky current state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is partly due to its over-extension into too many streaming shows of varying quality — but at the same time, the best of those series have introduced some of the current MCU’s most promising characters. In the just-released The Marvels, the …
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When 27-year-old BookTok creator Sat posted a TikTok criticizing a dark romance book for what she called “romanticizing” the Ku Klux Klan, she thought the video would spark a conversation about racism in book publishing. But even after the author, Tillie Cole, removed the book, Sat and at least two …
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As war rages on in the Middle East, with more than 1,200 Israelis killed in a terrorist attack by Hamas and more than 11,000 Palestinians killed as a result of the Israeli army’s retaliatory attack on Gaza, U.S. politicians are focusing on the real enemy: an app where you can …
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As SAG-AFTRA’s fight with Hollywood studios came to a close on Friday, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan celebrated with a proper reunion. Curtis shared a photo on Instagram with her Freaky Friday costar, captioning, “Too late. YOU GREW UP and SO BEAUTIFULLY!” Along with the smiling selfie, she added, …
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On Thursday, November 9th, GMG Group CEO Jim Spanfeller announced that he was shutting down the women-centric website Jezebel, after failing to find a buyer. After 16 years, six editors-in-chief, four presidential administrations, tens of thousands of posts, hundreds of internet shitstorms, and at least one gallery of digital illustrations …
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Hooray, showbiz is back! Now what? Wednesday night, SAG-AFTRA reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP, bringing to an end to six months of Hollywood strikes, involving the writers guild and then the actors. The writers have been back at work for a month, and SAG leadership has told its …
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A WEEK AFTER THE MASSACRE in Lewiston, Maine, left 18 dead, 13 wounded, and a swath of New England terrorized and on lockdown, the gun industry was thinking about its bottom line. During a Nov. 1 quarterly-earnings call, Ruger CEO Christopher Killoy touted the company’s profits, and the sales boost …
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