Seven people, including the shooter, are dead after a mass shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, Tuesday night, Nov. 22, The Associated Press reports. The city of Chesapeake confirmed that the shooter is dead, citing police, in a Twitter post: “Chesapeake Police confirm an active shooter incident with fatalities …
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“There’s no nice way to tell 10 million Swifties, ‘There are no tickets,’” said Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino a day after the company’s colossal failure to deliver Taylor Swift tickets to fans who hoped to see her Eras Tour. He added: “So they do what they do and they …
Read More »Trump Bragged 'the Evangelicals' Would 'Never' Leave Him. Then the Defections Began
Donald Trump was certain that evangelical voters and Christian-right leaders would “never” abandon him. In the months before he formally announced his campaign to reclaim the White House, Trump had quizzed certain advisers about what “the evangelicals” thought of his flirtations with a third run, two sources familiar with the …
Read More »'Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special' Is One Goofy Season's Greetings From the MCU
An entire generation was scarred on November 17th, 1978, a date that will live in infamy. That was the Friday evening that CBS pre-empted two hours of its regularly scheduled programming to bring you the following special: A holiday-themed variety show set in the universe of…Star Wars. The following year, …
Read More »Trump, Who Wants to Be President, Can't Stop Promoting QAnon Memes
Donald Trump spent his morning promoting QAnon-affiliated posts on social media, boosting a theory that holds that a global cabal of pedophiles control the world and pursue immortality via extracting juvenile hormones. Donald Trump is asking the country to make him the next president of the United States. After the …
Read More »No One Else is Rapping Like $ilkmoney Right Now
Last Wednesday, as reactions to this year’s Grammy nominations permeated the timeline, Richmond, Virginia rapper $ilkmoney declared his indifference toward assimilation with the colorfully titled “I Ate 14gs of Mushrooms and Bwoy Oh Bwoy.” The song is just under two minutes long, but with producer Kahlil Blu’s flaring synths and …
Read More »'Glass Onion': Daniel Craig's Supersleuth Returns for Another Screw-the-Rich Mystery
The good people at Netflix would prefer that reviewers, critics, pundits, wags, culture vultures and other assorted ne’er-do-wells who write about movies on the internet not spoil any of the many twists and turns of Glass Onion, the much-anticipated sequel to Rian Johnson‘s 2019 tribute/throwback to whodunnits Knives Out. It’s …
Read More »Goose Cement Their Rep as the Hottest New Jam Band During an Epic Tour with Trey Anastasio
“There were definitely a lot more waffles than people that night,” says Rick Mitarotonda, the lead singer and guitarist for Goose. He’s reflecting on the band’s 2017 gig at Funk N Waffles, a 200-capacity venue in Syracuse, New York, just a half mile from where he and his bandmates are …
Read More »Namor vs. Aquaman, A Viral Speedo Tweet, and Other Burning Topics with Tenoch Huerta
The underwater ruler Namor, as introduced in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, is a radical revamp of his Marvel Comics incarnation, masterminded by director Ryan Coogler. In the comic books, Namor is king of Atlantis, just like Aquaman (created two years after him, for the record). But Coogler was intent on …
Read More »Take a Delightfully Strange Road Trip with a Donkey in 'EO,' a Fantasia of the Animal and Human World
Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO, a winding misadventure about a sweet-tempered donkey, inarguably qualifies as an animal’s-eye view of all that’s warm and cruel, comical and arbitrary about human nature. And of the world of animals, which can be so beautiful and terrifying at once. It’s similar to other, more sobering movies …
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