Just five months after Ellen DeGeneres exited her long-running daytime show, the host is returning, albeit to a much smaller screen. About Time For Yourself… with Ellen, premiering weekly on DeGeneres’ YouTube page, will find the “retired” host doing what bored retired people do: Crocheting, bird watching, and other time-killing …
Read More »Democrats Dial Up the Cringe With 'Midnights' Memes
It turns out every politician in Washington was also staying up past their bedtimes in anticipation of Taylor Swift’s new album Midnights, and their posts might just be the thing that gets listeners to go back to bed. With 18 nights left until the midterms, engagement-hungry Democrats are harnessing every …
Read More »Wait, John Lennon Singing 'Yellow Submarine'? Hear Wild 'Revolver' Outtake
The Beatles could pack an emotional punch like no other band. Their 1966 masterpiece Revolver is full of moments where John, Paul, George and Ringo reach right for the heart. But not “Yellow Submarine.” Until now. The world has always cherished this song as a cheerful kiddie novelty, something the …
Read More »Latto and Flo Milli See Stars in One Another
W elcome to Rolling Stone’s 2022 Musicians on Musicians package, the annual franchise where two great artists come together for a free, open conversation about life and music. Each story in this year’s series will appear in our November 2022 print issue, hitting stands on Nov. 1st. “My Capricorn sis!” …
Read More »Inside the Effort to Protect the Election — One State at a Time
Art Reyes III had been delivering the closing remarks at a virtual election watch party on November 3, 2020, when he learned that busloads of Republicans had pulled up to a Detroit convention center to demand election workers stop counting ballots. Reyes, the founder of grassroots group We the People …
Read More »Steve Bannon Sentenced to Four Months in Prison
Steven Bannon has been sentenced to four months in prison and ordered to pay a $6,500 for criminal contempt of Congress after refusing to comply with a subpoena issued by the Jan. 6 committee. Judge Carl Nichols, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, said on Friday that Bannon …
Read More »'My Policeman' Charts Harry Styles' Love Triangle. No, Not That One
What is it about the English seaside and suppressed yearning? Is it the bracing winds? The overcast skies? The white cliffs and rocky beaches, as bloodless as the emotional lives of characters who are terrified of their heart’s true desires? The beaches of Brighton in My Policeman are slightly sunnier …
Read More »Yungblud Centers Self-Acceptance in Trailer for Trans Short Film 'Mars'
Self-acceptance rests at the root of Mars, the forthcoming original short film created by British rock musician Yungblud. The debut trailer for the 21-minute coming-of-age story – set to premiere on Nov. 17 to coincide with Trans Awareness Week – follows Charlie Acaster (Yasmin Finney) as she looks deep into …
Read More »Welcome to the Lavender Labyrinth: Taylor Swift's 'Midnights' Is the Mastermind's Ultimate Power Move
Just three years ago, in “Daylight,” the climax of Lover, Taylor Swift announced, “I wanna be defined by the things that I love, not the things I hate, not the things that I’m afraid of, not the things that haunt me in the middle of the night.” Guess she got …
Read More »Anti-Woke Crusader Is Trying a New Recruitment Tool: 1990s Nostalgia
It’s been years since the heyday of “Only Nineties Kids Will Remember” clickbait — the listicles that sent us back to a neon-flecked era of Power Rangers, CDs, Beanie Babies, and VHS tapes. But nostalgia dies hard, and now a Canadian man considered a leading intellectual in far-right media is …
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