The Los Angeles Press Club held its annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards on Sunday, where Rolling Stone took home five top awards. Cheyenne Roundtree and Jason Newman won Celebrity News – print for “Inside Kanye West’s Yeezy: Abrupt Firings, Alleged Nazi Inspiration and ‘Pure Chaos,” with judges commenting, …
Read More »Ludacris is Ready To Remind Us Why He's an Icon
Ludacris is cruising through New York a few days before the release of his new movie Dashing Through The Snow with Lil Rel. Our Zoom session isn’t long, but I’m happy to ask the rap legend a few questions. With six platinum albums, over 24 million records sold worldwide, and …
Read More »George Santos Is Very Clearly Relishing His Unemployment
George Santos may have been expelled from Congress, but he plans to haunt the halls of the Capitol for a very long time. Santos, the self-described “Republican ‘It Girl,’” has an established flair for the dramatic. Examples include his habit of trolling the reporters regularly gathered outside his office, acquiring …
Read More »Fuerza Régida, Junior H, and Maná Headline First-Ever Festival La Onda in Napa
A new Latino music festival is headed to Napa Valley. On Monday, BottleRock announced the stacked lineup for its first-ever Festival La Onda, which will be headlined by Maná, Fuerza Régida, Alejandro Fernandez, and Junior H. The event is set for June 1 and 2 in Napa Valley. The festival’s …
Read More »Things Are So Bad for DeSantis That His Top Propaganda Blog Is Shutting Down
The Florida Standard has gone belly up. The death of a low-circulation right-wing rag would normally be fairly unremarkable, except that this particular publication is a favorite propaganda outfit of Florida governor and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis. According to a report from The Floridian, the Standard, which has for months …
Read More »Beyoncé's 'Renaissance: A Film' Is a Super Hero Epic in the Form of a Concert Movie
Beyoncé’s Renaissance is so much more than a concert film. It’s a superhero epic—as if Bey is filling the void left by The Marvels or Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. It’s a glorious three-hour tour of the Queen in all her creative splendor, on her record-setting Renaissance World Tour from …
Read More »'Chowchilla': When a School Bus Full of Kids Mysteriously Disappeared
The tale begins with a crime that left everyone baffled. In July 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children (and one driver) was hijacked in the sleepy Central California town of Chowchilla. The kidnap victims were taken to two vans, driven to an abandoned rock quarry, led off the bus, …
Read More »U.S. Intelligence Was Not Aware of Hamas' Plan to Attack Israel, National Security Council Spokesman Says
The U.S. intelligence community has “indicated that they did not have access to” a document outlining Hamas‘ plan to attack Israel, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said. According to a New York Times report last week, Israeli officials had circulated a 40-page document detailing Hamas’ planned assault …
Read More »Trump Says if Jesus 'Came Down' He'd Win the Blue States in Unhinged Iowa Speech
Donald Trump was in Iowa on Saturday for two campaign stops, the first in Ankeny, followed by another in Cedar Rapids. And his obsession with the 2020 election continues to be a subject he seems to think is crucial as he campaigns to win the Republican presidential nomination, despite his …
Read More »The Dirty Tricks the GOP Is Using to Keep Abortion Off the Ballot in 2024
Tiffany Campbell used to describe herself as a “hardcore, church-going Republican.” That changed back in 2006, when she was still running an in-home daycare in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and learned she was pregnant with twins. The prognosis was dire: one twin’s heart was pumping blood for both of them …
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