Lady Gaga is in early talks to star as Harley Quinn opposite Joaquin Phoenix in the upcoming sequel to Joker, according The Hollywood Reporter. Director Todd Phillips recently confirmed on social media he had a working script for Joker: Folie à Deux, a follow-up to the 2019 film that is …
Read More »Reinventing Flasher: How the D.C. Post-Punk Band Found a New Beginning
If you’re looking for a soundtrack to any road trips in your future, you could do worse than Love Is Yours, the second full-length from Flasher. “I think of it as a summer record,” says singer and guitarist Taylor Mulitz, 31. “I imagine myself, and hopefully other people, listening to …
Read More »Inside hate5six, the YouTube Channel That's Bringing Hardcore to the Masses
One of Sunny Singh’s proudest moments as a videographer was the night he got punched in the face with his own camera. Singh — who for the past decade-plus has singlehandedly built up one of the web’s most robust and widely admired archives of live-music footage on his hate5six YouTube …
Read More »J.J. Abrams, Mark Ruffalo, and Shonda Rhimes Want Hollywood to Reconsider How Guns Are Used on Screen
After the latest spate of deadly mass shootings, Hollywood creators like J.J. Abrams, Mark Ruffalo, and Shonda Rhimes are asking their peers to reconsider how guns and gun violence are used in films and television shows. A new open letter — shared by the Brady Campaign and signed by over …
Read More »The Senate Has a Deal on Gun Control
Republican and Democratic Senators have signed onto a tentative agreement for gun reform legislation in the wake of the shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school. The proposed deal for bipartisan reform, a group of senators announced Sunday, includes enhanced background checks for buyers ages 18-21 as well as funding …
Read More »We Let Monkeypox Spread for Too Long. If It Infects Our Pets, There's No Getting Rid of It
There was an undetected monkeypox outbreak already underway in the United States before health officials in Europe and the U.S. sounded the alarm about the dangerous viral disease back in May.That’s a problem. For every day that a virus spreads unmonitored and unchecked, there’s greater risk of it finding a …
Read More »Ringo Starr Postpones Summer Tour After Two All-Starrs Test Positive for Covid
Ringo Starr was forced to postpone the remainder of his summer tour after two members of the All-Starr Band tested positive for Covid. The legendary Beatles drummer and his touring unit — which included Steve Lukather, Colin Hay, Warren Ham, Gregg Bissonette, Hamish Stuart and Edgar Winter — were midway …
Read More »D.C. Football Coach Fined $100,000 for Calling Capitol Attack a 'Dust-Up'
Washington Commanders Head Coach Ron Rivera has fined Defensive Coordinator Jack Del Rio $100,000 for minimizing the attack on the Capitol as a “dust-up.” “Words have consequences and his words hurt a lot of people in our community,” Rivera wrote in a statement. “I want to make it clear that …
Read More »Rolling Stone, NYU and YellowBrick are Partnering to Teach 'Modern Journalism'
Rolling Stoneand NYU are teaming up with the online education platform Yellowbrick to teach aspiring journalists the tools of the trade.Modern Journalismis a six-part educational content series that features an esteemed roster of lecturers, from NYU adjunct professor of journalism Liza Kaufman Hogan toRolling Stone’sown culture editor Elizabeth Garber-Paul. In …
Read More »Suge Knight Testifies About Dr. Dre 'Murder Burger' Incident: 'I Hadn't Done Anything Wrong'
Appearing remotely from a cinderblock room painted neon white, jailed Death Row Records founder Suge Knight testified for the first time Wednesday about the day in early 2015 when he tried — but failed — to get a meeting with Dr. Dre at an office for the movie Straight Outta …
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