They sold it with a list of surnames: Stallone. Statham. Li. Lundgren. Couture. Austin. Crews. Willis. The only name missing was Schwarzenegger, and that’s simply because they wanted his cameo to be a surprise. (He’d make the poster for the sequel.) Two of them came from the worlds of pro-wrestling …
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Conservatives opposed to shopping at “woke” corporations have launched their own lines of pillows, piss beer, and mobile phone service. Now, unabashed white supremacists are setting up shop in this so-called parallel economy. Consider the fascist fashion house Will2Rise. Will2Rise makes sports gear for white nationalists — including muscle-tees, track …
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It’s official. Summer is over. The second day of Life Is Beautiful inaugurated the Fall season with a diverse lineup of performers across the festival’s stages in Downtown Las Vegas, with artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Reneé Rapp, the 1975, and Omar Apollo performing throughout the evening. (It might be …
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You know their names: Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, and Christy Turlington. The supermodel quartet reached instant fame and held the fashion industry in the palm of their hands in the Nineties. To filmmaker Roger Ross Williams, they were the first influencers with indelible power, photographed globally and enamored …
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A Washington Post-ABC News poll released Sunday shows President Joe Biden trailing Donald Trump by 10 percentage points nationally, though that number is “probably an outlier” in part due to other recent polls showing a tight contest, as the Post notes. Still, Biden’s disapproval rating remains relatively high, as shown …
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With Saturday marking the first official day of Autumn, Las Vegas’ Life is Beautiful is the last hurrah of the summer festival season. Life Is Beautiful is unique in that it doesn’t take place in a large field or a city park, but smack dab in the middle of Vegas’ …
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P atricio Manuel sits silently backstage at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino. He’s in the back corner of the white-tarpaulined gazebo as he waits to be called to the ring of the 3,000-seater events center here in Indio, California. Inside the thin tent walls, he can hear the hubbub of …
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Bebe Rexha and Tyler Hubbard‘s surprise performance in Las Vegas was… wait for it… meant to be. Although country music was absent from this year’s Life Is Beautiful lineup, the genre, which is having a huge moment on the charts, made an appearance at the festival thanks to Rexha. During …
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Nearly two weeks after Virginia’s Blue Ridge Rock Festival was abruptly canceled, attendees are still plagued by the ill-fated event in the form of a widespread gastrointestinal illness. The Virginia Department of Health has opened an investigation into how and why festivalgoers are still dealing with the ailments weeks after …
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It started like so many reality TV scandals do. Just after 7 a.m. on Monday morning, notorious gossip site TMZ alleged that Shannon Beador — star of Bravo’s Real Housewives of Orange County — had been arrested for drunkenly crashing her car then fleeing the scene. The report alleged that …
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