Milli Vanilli have gone down in history as one of the all-time notorious pop scandals. Everybody knows the story: two Black European peacocks named Fab and Rob explode on the Eighties dance-pop scene, with the fizzy smash “Girl You Know It’s True.” They score three U.S. Number One hits and …
Read More »Fox News Staffer Responsible for 'Wannabe Dictator' Chyron Out at Network
The Fox News employee responsible for the controversial “Wannabe Dictator” chyron about President Joe Biden has parted ways with the network. On Tuesday, during a segment about Biden’s speech following Donald Trump’s latest arrest, Fox News briefly flashed a chyron that read, in all caps, “Wannabe Dictator Speaks at the …
Read More »DeSantis Hands Out Beer After Trump Dine-N-Dash
Immediately after his arrest on Tuesday, Trump stopped by a Cuban restaurant in Miami. “Food for everyone!” Trump is said to have yelled after arriving at the restaurant for an impromptu campaign visit shortly after pleading not guilty to 37 criminal counts leveled against him by the Justice Department. He …
Read More »The Fast Times and High Crimes of a Hip-Hop Grifter
& #8220;Who’s Swagg Man?” the 36-year-old rapper currently wanted by the law poses the question to himself in a text to me. “I was born an artist … Swagg Man is a fictif [fictional] guy. Same like all artist[s].” I’ve been trying to talk to Swagg Man for weeks. He …
Read More »Ticket Companies Told Biden They'd Stop Hiding Fees. One Company's Already Skirting That Promise
SeatGeek made national news on Thursday when alongside Live Nation and Ticketmaster, the ticket reseller had announced with President Joe Biden at the White House that it would adopt an all-in pricing strategy to be more transparent with fans and stop hiding fees until the end of a purchase. Critics, …
Read More »Jack Smith Moves to Muzzle Trump
Special Counsel Jack Smith submitted a request Friday for a protective order “against the dissemination of discovery materials and the sensitive information that they contain,” in relation to the Justice Department’s criminal case against former President Donald Trump. The order would directly prevent Trump from disclosing evidence and materials shared …
Read More »The Wildfire, the Hunter, and a Decade of Conspiracy Theories
I n the summer of 2013, the Stanislaus National Forest was as pretty as a postcard. Pristine lakes gleamed bright blue against the dramatic, glacier-carved granite cliffs, and from certain angles you could believe the Ponderosa Pines went on forever. But this was a precarious kind of beauty: By August, …
Read More »Joni Mitchell Returns With Epic All-Star Celebration at the Gorge
If Joni Mitchell‘s Joni Jam at the Gorge Amphitheater Saturday were to become a scene in the upcoming Cameron Crowe biopic on the iconic troubadour, Mitchell just taking the stage to a standing ovation eight years after she nearly died of an aneurysm would have been a glorious Hollywood ending. …
Read More »'Vanderpump Rules' No Longer Needs Lisa Vanderpump
In the final part of the Vanderpump Rules Season 10 reunion, Lisa Vanderpump — the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star who first masterminded a show about the staff working at her west Hollywood restaurant/bar SUR — spoke for Bravo fans across the world when she gave Raquel Leviss some …
Read More »Tasha Reign: I Was Assaulted on Stormy Daniels' Porn Set and Spoke Out
“This is Devon. Please call me.” I received semiregular texts like this that sent chills through my body. It either meant my agent had booked me for a photo or video shoot… or that he needed to discuss something he was upset with or confused about. Devon has lived here …
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