When the Beanie Baby craze reached its apex in the late Nineties, around the time desperate suburbanites were shelling out small fortunes for the purple Princess Diana bear on eBay and ransacking shopping malls whenever rumors hit that a new shipment had arrived, screenwriter Kristin Gore and OK Go frontman …
Read More »These Christian Nationalists Want to Stone Adulterers to Death
The podcast setup at first appears familiar: a pair of white dudes, mic’d up at a table, wrestling out loud with big ideas. But the conversation between the two men veers, without guardrails, into a dystopian vision of a Christian nationalist America, in which the laws of the Old Testament …
Read More »Don't Sleep on 'Revenant,' a Masterful K-Horror Series on Disney+
Revenant, like so many horror stories, begins on a rainy night. Disney+’s latest South Korean drama opens as Professor Gu Kang-mo (Jin Seon-kyu) hurries through his front door, past shelves piled with books, and barricades himself in the study. “What went wrong?” he asks himself, flipping through his notes. Behind …
Read More »'Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse' Removed From 2024 Release Date
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse was removed from its scheduled 2024 release date as Sony Pictures postponed their upcoming blockbusters to the new year in the aftermath of the Hollywood double strike. Originally scheduled to arrive March 29, 2024 — roughly nine months after the acclaimed Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — …
Read More »Lizzo Drops the 'Bad Day' Version of Her 'Barbie Album' Standout 'Pink'
A week after Barbie smashed box office expectations, Lizzo has dropped the “Bad Day” version of her soundtrack cut “Pink.” Lizzo’s “Pink,” the movie’s opening number, already featured on the Mark Ronson-curated soundtrack, but the rapper’s darker (albeit still bubbly) version popped up amid Margot Robbie’s existential crisis in the …
Read More »Astroworld Fest: Houston Police Report Details 'Carnage' and Chaos
The Houston Police department released its full 1266-page investigation on the 2021 Astroworld tragedy, providing more details on the event that killed 10 people and injured hundreds of others. The massive report — which includes interviews with festival organizers, security staff, camera operators, medical staff, Travis Scott and his manager, …
Read More »How Anita Pallenberg Transformed the Rolling Stones From 'Schoolboys' to Stars
The Rolling Stones have existed for six decades, yet the women who influenced the members and their music have been largely overlooked and under-appreciated. But with her new book Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones, Elizabeth Winder is attempting …
Read More »Police Say He Stabbed a Man to Death While Shouting the N-Word. He's Charged With Only 'Peace Disturbance'
Jon “Mike” Rone Jr. was killed on the 4th of July by repeated stab wounds to the chest. Sean W. Tonkin is the man police believe stabbed Rone — during a confrontation in which, police say, he repeatedly shouted the n-word at him. This occurred just after, a witness tells …
Read More »Former Anti-Abortion Leader and Aide to Alabama Lt. Gov. Arrested on Child Sex Abuse Charges
As the chair of Alliance for a Pro-Life Alabama in 2018, Cole Wagner helped muscle into the Alabama Constitution a new amendment declaring the state recognized “the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children.” On Friday, the Alabama Political Reporter broke the news that Wagner had been …
Read More »Paul Gosar's Newsletter Features Website That Calls for Readers to 'Stand up for Hitler': Report
A Sunday newsletter from the office of Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Az.) featured a link to an antisemitic website known for promoting conspiracies ranging from QAnon to Holocaust denial, according to a report from the progressive nonprofit Media Matters For America. The newsletter included a link to USSA News, which boasts …
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