Bad Bunny’s Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana dethroned Drake and For All The Dogs to debut atop the Billboard 200 Albums chart, the publication announced on Sunday, marking the rapper’s third consecutive album to debut atop the chart in an impressive run for one of music’s biggest …
Read More »'SNL' Cold Open Crashed by George Santos With a Random Baby
Before we were treated to the hosting debut of musician and actor Bad Bunny, Saturday Night Live kicked things off with a cold open on the House of Representatives’ third vote for Speaker — where the deeply unlikable Republican Representative Jim Jordan, who has some serious things to answer for …
Read More »Mick Jagger Shocks 'SNL' as Horny Nun in Wild 'Sister Act 3' Parody
If you thought last week’s Season 49 premiere of Saturday Night Live was star-studded, featuring host Pete Davidson, musical performer Ice Spice, and cameos by the ubiquitous A-list couple Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, well, the sketch-comedy show’s second episode would not be outdone. Following a cold open with a …
Read More »Bob Lee's Murder Shook San Francisco. What Really Happened?
T he 911 call came in around 2:30 a.m on April 4. “Help, someone stabbed me,” said the voice on the phone. Police and paramedics rushed to the address he gave near the downtown waterfront, beneath the hulking steel beams of the Bay Bridge. By the time first responders arrived …
Read More »Why 'Killers of the Flower Moon's' Reign of Terror Is Still Felt Today
Before he wrote the book Killers of the Flower Moon, author David Grann paid a visit to Oklahoma and the Osage Nation in 2012. He found himself in the local museumlooking at a big panoramic photo of the Osage tribe and some white settlers. But a panel was missing from …
Read More »SAG-AFTRA Clarifies Halloween Strike Rules Following Ryan Reynolds, Mandy Moore Critique
Earlier this week, SAG-AFTRA released guidelines for members looking to “celebrate Halloween this year while also staying in solidarity” with the strike. Actors were advised to avoid costumes inspired by struck content — Barbie, Wednesday Addams, Marvel superheroes, etc. — and opt instead for generic characters like a ghost or …
Read More »'I Don't Get to Opt-In to Be Black': A Scholastic Author Speaks Out
When author Tanisia Moore was growing up in California in the 1990s, the Scholastic Book Fair was one of the most exciting times of the year. Moore tells Rolling Stone she has fond memories of bringing a catalog home to her mother and pointing out different books she wanted to …
Read More »See Keith Richards Make a (Premature) Appearance on 'Fallon'
Following the Rolling Stones’ epic album release party in New York City, Keith Richards (prematurely) appeared as a guest on The Tonight Show, briefly interrupting filming while Jimmy Fallon talked about his experience at the surprise Hackney Diamonds gig. Richards was scheduled as a guest on the episode, so Fallon …
Read More »On 'Lahai,' Sampha Figured Out How to Bend Space and Time
DURING a series of performance residencies this year titled Satellite Business, Sampha played in a circle of musicians — different voices, synths, drums, and electronics vying gracefully for center stage. The shows required smaller, more intimate venues, like St. John at Hackney Church in London, where he performed three nights …
Read More »'The Delinquents' is a Heist Movie That Demands You Quit Your Job ASAP
Heist movies tend to operate by a narrative rule of three: You show the preparation; you detail the execution, bit by painstaking bit; and you map out how the criminals and/or their crew get away with it, or don’t. The Delinquents, Argentine writer-director Rodrigo Moreno’s left-of-center contribution to the genre, …
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