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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Ryan Kelley, a Republican candidate for governor in Michigan, was arrested Thursday and charged for his role in the riot at the Capitol last Jan. 6, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. Kelley, a 40-year-old real estate agent, is one of the leading Republican candidates …
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Take a look at a map outlining the current legality of cannabis in the U.S. You may notice larger concentrations of adult-use states in the Northern and Western regions, while the South offers some medical access. If you were to look at that same map, say two, five or seven …
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They Might Be Giants are postponing their June tour dates after the duo’s John Flansburgh was in a “serious car accident.” He and John Linnell performed at Bowery Ballroom in New York on Wednesday night, the first date of their rescheduled tour marking the 30th anniversary of 1990’s Flood. In …
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Jim Carrey, Chris Rock, John Mayer, and John Stamos lead an all-star tribute to the late Bob Saget in a new Netflix comedy special out tomorrow, June 10. Dirty Daddy: The Bob Saget Tribute also includes friends, co-stars and fellow comics like Jackson Browne, Dave Chappelle, Michael Keaton, Jeff Ross, …
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Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones hasn’t spoken to singer John Lydon, a.k.a. Johnny Rotten, since they clashed on a 2008 reunion tour, and he just helped fight off Lydon’s unsuccessful lawsuit to prevent the use of the band’s music in Pistol, the new Hulu series about the band.But even so, …
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It is a grim coincidence that the same week that HBO premieres the The Janes — a documentary about the young women who established an underground network to provide women with affordable and safe abortion care in the years before Roe v. Wade — the current Supreme Court may actually …
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Harry Styles is perpetually plagued by the burden of being too iconic. During a recent appearance on the Australian radio podcast Fitzy & Wippa, director Baz Luhrmann revealed that he ultimately passed on the pop musician for the lead role in Elvis, his first film in nearly a decade, because …
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Last Week Tonight took last weekend off, meaning tonight’s episode was John Oliver’s first since the May 24 Uvalde, Texas, school shooting in which 19 children and two teachers were massacred. So it was no surprise that Oliver devoted the show to the never-ending gun control debate. This time, he …
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On a cold morning in upstate New York, I got arrested while walking down the street with a small Tupperware container filled with heroin. Even though I was at the tail end of my senior year at Cornell University, that outcome should not have been a surprise to anyone who …
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