Summer House star Carl Radke had a lot on his mind when he was gearing up for BravoCon 2023 in Las Vegas. While he tells Rolling Stone he was “incredibly excited” to attend because he’s proud of his eight-season run on the Bravo reality series, he also had not publicly …
Read More »Biden Bleeds Younger Voters, Now Trails Trump in Swing States, New Polls Find
New polling confirms that President Joe Biden is losing young voters at an accelerating rate and, as a result, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump holds an edge in five battleground states. The polls, conducted by the New York Times and Siena College, found that the tide has turned in five states …
Read More »The Moment It Was Clear Tupac Would be a Star
Inthe spring of1990, Tupac Shakur was shuttling between Marin City and Oakland, California, restlessly seeking his future. His manager, Atron Gregory, was shopping his demo tape but with little success so far. Meanwhile, activism beckoned. Friends of his mother, the former Black Panther revolutionary Afeni Shakur, had engaged Tupac to …
Read More »Young Activists to Biden: Change Course on Gaza — or Lose in 2024
Biden is going to blow it with young voters if he doesn’t change course. That’s the message leaders of several groups that rallied those voters to support Biden in 2020 are sending as the president continues his wholesale support of the Israeli government’s continued assault on Gaza. These leaders represent …
Read More »'The Buccaneers' Is a More Girl-Power 'Bridgerton'
Women in late-Victorian England are expected to wave gently, smile politely, and follow their husband’s orders. They’re not expected to splash around in neighboring lakes, shotgun glasses of champagne or uncross their legs in elaborate ballgowns, like the five American girls in Apple TV+’s The Buccaneers. Audiences will likely compare …
Read More »Bill Wyman Remembers His Troubled Pal Brian Jones: 'He Inadvertently Made the Wrong Decisions, to His Detriment'
Ask Bill Wyman what people should expect fromThe Stones and Brian Jones,documentarian Nick Broomfield’s new film about the late, doomed founder of the band, and he’s pretty straightforward about it: “The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but!” That may be a slight exaggeration, but there’s no denying that the …
Read More »Missy Elliott, Rage Against the Machine Storm the Rock Hall at Wild Brooklyn Ceremony
It was a few minutes past midnight when Missy Elliott stepped up to the podium at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and cemented her place in history as the first female hip-hop artist to enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She’d spent the past four hours witnessing speeches and performances …
Read More »Inside Amapiano Sensation Uncle Waffles' Vibrant Headlining Debut
When Uncle Waffles left her Manhattan hotel for her first headlining show in Brooklyn, her fiery red hair was full of bounce and curves. By the time she plays “Tanzania,” her first single after rising to prominence as a DJ specializing in South African Amapiano, it instead flows kinkily down …
Read More »See U2 Perform 'Seconds' for First Time in Nearly 40 Years at the Sphere
While Achtung Baby is the centerpiece of U2’s game-changing Las Vegas residency, the band have been using the Sphere to revisit long-forgotten songs from their catalog. That continued Friday night as Bono and company dug out “Seconds” for the first time live since 1985. “A great Adam Clayton bassline that …
Read More »Andy Cohen Fires Back at Vanity Fair Exposé at BravoCon: 'Factually Incorrect'
The first morning of BravoCon kicked off with a bang on Friday when Andy Cohen took the stage for a Q&A moderated by Jeff Lewis. While excited fans were eager to hear his thoughts about which cast members from the Real Housewives franchise he texts with the most and his …
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