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 »'Futurama' and the TV Shows That Refuse to Die
Of course Futurama is back with a new season today, 10 years after the last episode aired. It is a show whose main character spent 1,000 years in cryogenic slumber, and its ensemble has defied death at least as often as the series has. You have to go back nearly …
Read More »Brutalismus 3000 Are Turning Techno on its Head
Brutalismus 3000 are the hottest new electronic act in continental Europe, a pair of Bavarians lighting up Berlin with some of the most brutal, unpalatable, utterly beautiful rave music since the Nineties, all while calling the contemporary techno scene boring and “unstylish,” writing lyrics about horror films and 9/11, hanging …
Read More »The 1975 Cancel Remainder of Asia Tour After Malaysian Festival Controversy
The 1975 have called off the remainder of their Asian tour following the band’s performance that resulted in the cancellation of a Malaysian music festival. Matty Healy and company were scheduled to play at Jakarta, Indonesia’s We the Fest on Sunday as well as in Taipei, Taiwan on Tuesday, but …
Read More »The Dark Side of Barbie: Crime, Racial Issues, and Rampant Sexism
Toward the end of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie, our titular heroine’s (Margot Robbie) journey culminates in the arrival of an unexpected guest: Her creator, the late Ruth Handler (played by Rhea Perlman). Having just spent two hours confronting the reality that Barbies didn’t actually solve all inequality and are, in …
Read More »The 'Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer' Double Feature Left Me Questioning Reality Itself
The double feature is something of a bygone pleasure. Sure, repertory theaters will curate stacked showings of classic fare or art house favorites for the cultured cinephile in us, but the first-run double — one you might randomly drop into knowing little about either movie — seems the relic of …
Read More »How 'Boy Meets World' Star Maitland Ward Found Her Sexuality in Porn
“All you have to do is just lay there and let me be Prince Charming,” my partner, who regularly groomed himself like a Ken doll, said to me as he readied to take my virginity. I nodded, because all I knew of sex back then was agreement. He’d move against …
Read More »The Journey That Led Juanes to His Best Album Yet <strong>–</strong> and The Wisdom that Came With It
T hroughout history, many experts have studied the dichotomy that seems to exist between fear and love. It’s easy to think about that when examining Juanes’ career: First, there was the innocence and passion of the Colombian star’s Ekhymosis era and his first years as a solo artist. Then came …
Read More »Jamie Foxx Talks Health Ordeal in New Video: 'I Went to Hell and Back'
Jamie Foxx talked about his health ordeal for the first time since a “medical complication” landed him in the hospital over three months ago. The actor, who had begun reintegrating himself to public life in recent weeks following the lengthy health scare, posted a video on Instagram Friday night to …
Read More »Generals, Peaceniks, and Palestinian Fighters Agree: Bibi Must Be Stopped
O n a narrow hillside road crowded with stucco apartment buildings in the Jenin refugee camp, 22-year-old “Abu Nidal” sits in an open storefront decorated with posters of fallen fighters, clutching his M16. Voices and static blare from the radio stuck to his green tactical vest. Flanked by young men …
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