The whole thing felt like a glorious fluke from the get-go. Never mind all those top-tier, name-recognized Marvel superheroes that were being trotted out in the name of establishing a multimedia, cross-branded empire. Let’s spend a lot of money on an obscure late ’60s comic-book title, using characters from its …
Read More »Kesha, Labrinth, Jack Harlow and All the Songs You Need to Know This Week
Welcome to our weekly rundown ofthe best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week,Kesha has a spiritual awakening in her first release in three years, Jack Harlow returns, Labrinth catches the feels, and Taylor Swift gets moody with The National. Kesha, “Eat …
Read More »Ron DeSantis F-cked With the Wrong Fandom
Earlier this week, on the Disney forum DISBoards.com, a user named KYMickey posted a meme of a demonic-looking white man with a passing resemblance to Gov. Ron DeSantis dressed in a Prince Charming costume, in front of Cinderella’s castle. “DeSantis World,” the caption reads, referring to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. …
Read More »See the Real Donna Summer — Singer, Actress, Mother — in Doc Trailer
The trailer for Donna Summer: Love to Love You, a new documentary about the late disco legend, focuses on the identity crisis she felt, juggling stardom, motherhood, and just who she wanted to be. “My approach to singing, I approach it as an actress,” she says in an archival interview. …
Read More »Labrinth Packs a Lifetime of Moods, Feels, and Maxed-Out Drama Into A Half-Hour of Music on 'Ends & Begins'
The third album from British composer-singer-producer Labrinth only clocks in at about 28 minutes, but it’s a megadose of mood. The LP’s darkly hued tracks about love and loneliness come wracked with so much tension it often seems as if like they—and Labrinth himself— fall apart at any moment. Labrinth’s …
Read More »'It Is Easy for a Person to Disappear': Accused Murderer Suggests Missing Wife Ran Away
Brian Walshe, who following his wife’s disappearance went on a cleaning-supplies shopping spree and reportedly Googled “how to dispose of a 115-pound woman’s body,” has again pleaded not guilty to the murder of Ana Walshe. At the Thursday arraignment on a set of grand jury indictments, prosecutors said Walshe suspected …
Read More »E. Jean Carroll Isn't Taking Shit From Trump's Lawyers
E. Jean Carroll was steadfast in the face of cross-examination from Donald Trump’s attorneys during the second day of testimony in her civil trial against the former president on Thursday. “You were supposedly raped?” asked Joe Tacopina, one of Trump’s lawyers. “Not ‘supposedly,’” Carroll responded. “I was raped.” “Those are …
Read More »Farewell Jerry Springer, the Patron Saint of American Dysfunction
R.I.P. to the great Jerry Springer, who died Thursday at 79. This man revolutionized daytime TV — he was the Martha Graham of afternoon talk-show slap-and-punch choreography. His eponymously titled show was a beautifully bizarre pageant of dysfunctional American life: You watched strangers sit down onstage, listened to them confess …
Read More »Stephen Miller Is Taking Legal Action Against the M&M's Company
Tucker Carlson may be gone from Fox, but MAGA world is going after his greatest nemesis: the green M&M. America First Legal, the legal activist group founded by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller, on Wednesday filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against Mars Inc., the maker …
Read More »The Online Racists Stealing Military Secrets
Jack Teixiera’s odyssey from online racist to alleged classified-information shitposter to federal inmate shocked many — but it shouldn’t. In recent years, the Defense and Justice departments have investigated a number of servicemembers for involvement in far-right groups — and found they also appear to enjoy sharing the government’s most …
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