Movie theater employees have just come off of one of the biggest summers of film releases in recent years. Between Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, they have witnessed endless seas of hot pink outfits and film bros dying to mansplain World War II. Meanwhile, employees working at stadiums …
Read More »Sexyy Red's Comments About Trump Aren't Actually Surprising
Last week, buzzing St. Louis rapper Sexyy Red became the latest entertainer to rankle the public by openly supporting former President Donald Trump. During an appearance on Theo Von’s This Past Weekend web show, she said, “Yeah, they support [Trump] in the hood. At first, I don’t think people was …
Read More »Trolls Push Video Game Clips as Real Gaza Conflict Footage — and It's Working
Trolls, clout-chasers, and the merely clueless are flooding social media with clips from a military video game, passing them off as footage of the unfolding conflict in Gaza. The fake videos come as misinformation about the conflict overflows on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Following Saturday’s large-scale attack …
Read More »Trump and MAGA Allies Push Conspiracy Theory About Hamas Crossing Southern Border
Responding to an eruption of deadly violence between Hamas militants and Israeli Defense Forces that threatens to claim many more lives in the days ahead, Donald Trump and far-right allies are using the crisis to push a familiar anti-immigration narrative back home. According to MAGA world, Hamas won’t stop at …
Read More »'I Felt Hunted': Israeli Rave Fan Describes Fleeing Massacre
Amir Ben Natan, 37, is a stock trader from Herzliya who attended the psytrance Universo Paralello rave – titled Supernova Sukkot – near the Gaza Strip on the morning of October 7, 2023. He was separated from his friends as missiles and bullets rained down and hundreds of festivalgoers were …
Read More »Homecoming: 21 Savage Schedules First-Ever U.K. Concert at London's O2 Arena
21 Savage has been an invaluable player in the Atlanta rap scene for nearly a decade — but his true homecoming is about to happen 4,000 miles away. On Nov. 30, the rapper will take the stage at the O2 Arena in London, the city where he was born and …
Read More »Team Trump Is Using 'Fyre Festival Strategies' in N.Y. Fraud Case
In the weeks leading up to the start of his $250 million civil fraud trial in New York, Donald Trump and his attorneys privately discussed how they believed defeat in this trial was preordained. Their best chance — and it wasn’t much, according to two sources familiar with the matter …
Read More »Extreme Heat, Palm Trees and Crocodiles in Wyoming and the Craziest Climate Crisis Theory of Them All
After having witnessed the warmest summer on record, many are understandably wondering just how hot it could get? Perhaps there are some clues in Earth’s past. If we’re looking for a paleo-analog for the deadly heat we might face if we continue to warm our planet through fossil fuel burning …
Read More »'Fair Play' Director Chloe Domont on Consent and That Shocking Ending
I t’s late summer, and I’m seated across from Chloe Domont in a congested Brooklyn coffee shop. Both the writers’ and actors’ strikes are in full effect, creating an air of unease. This should be a time of celebration for Domont, whose first feature Fair Play — a sexy psychological …
Read More »Hayley Williams Was Afraid She Couldn't Face the World — Then Paramore 'Found Each Other Again'
T he night before Paramore released their sixth studio album This Is Why, they shared a list of all the things they were thinking about while working on the LP: Agoraphobia. Cabin fever. American Psycho. One point read: “Confused about the difference between selfishness and self-preservation.” “Making This Is Why …
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