After months in which the Powerball lottery went without a winner for the top prize, it appears somebody has hit the big time. A ticket matching all six numbers drawn Tuesday morning (10, 33, 41, 47, 56, and Powerball 10) was sold in Los Angeles County at a gas station …
Read More »'A Shitstorm': Astrologers Say Election Day's Blood Moon Eclipse Spells Chaos
Before dawn on Election Day, the full moon will appear drenched in blood. Our satellite will begin transitioning behind the Earth’s penumbra at exactly two minutes past midnight Pacific Time on November 8th, according to NASA, and remain fully obscured — cast in an ominous sanguine hue — from 5:17 …
Read More »Jennifer Coolidge Doesn't Have Time to Be a Worm
Jennifer Coolidge’s coffee maker is broken. The actress is calling from her home in New Orleans, and she just can’t get her crappy automatic to work. “I hope you don’t think I’m an amoeba because I have no personality,” Coolidge, 61, says, deciding to brave the interview without caffeine. “We …
Read More »Cheri Beasley Is Running for More Than a Senate Seat In North Carolina
OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA —It’s a marvel Cheri Beasley made it here at all, to this drafty barn, off of a winding country road in rural North Carolina. Her handlers had the wrong address, the cell service was spotty, the two-lane road you take to get here was shut down in …
Read More »Hear Drake Pay Tribute to 'Legendary, Unprecedented' Takeoff
Amid the release night celebration for Her Loss, Drake took a reflective moment to honor the late Migos rapper Takeoff during his Table for One show on SiriusXM Thursday night. “Before I get into the pleasantries, I’d just like to send our deepest condolences from the familyto the entire [Quality …
Read More »Selena Gomez Wasn't Sure She Was Ready To Tell This Story
S elena Gomez has a lot of baggage. She says this is true both “literally and figuratively,” and she says it while I am rolling my own literal baggage across the threshold of her Los Angeles home, having first rolled it past the security gate, then up the verdant hill, …
Read More »Dwyane Wade Is Standing Up For His Trans Daughter. His Ex-Wife Doesn't Approve
Dwyane Wade is firing back at his ex-wife Siohvaughn Funches-Wade, who claimed that the former NBA star was using their daughter’s transition to profit off potential brand deals and partnerships. The now-estranged couple share two children together, including 15-year-old Zaya Wade. On Tuesday, Funches-Wade filed a petition asking a judge …
Read More »La Batalla Cultural: Hate and Election Lies Are Poisoning Spanish-Language YouTube
Agustín Laje winces in disgust as he tells his listeners, in graphic detail, about a controversial medical procedure young people are getting in America. There’s just one problem: He’s making a lot of it up. “Fourteen-year-olds who can’t, for example, even have a beer in the United States,” Laje says, …
Read More »Right-Wingers Are Already Turning on Elon Musk
Just six days into Elon Musk’s reign over Twitter, prominent conservative pundits and commentators who lauded his acquisition of the platform as an opportunity to reshape it in their own image have started to turn on the Tesla billionaire. On Friday, Musk announced that content moderation decisions would be made …
Read More »The Story of How Migos Met Drake and Changed Rap Forever
New York Times reporter Joe Coscarelli‘s new book, RAP CAPITAL: An Atlanta Story, is a thorough account of the rise of Atlanta hip-hop as a business and a culture. Through vignettes with the city’s eclectic cast of characters — rappers and businesspeople alike — Coscarelli paints a vivid portrait of …
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