The most recent episode of Inside Amy Schumer was a fairly innocuous one. A clip show featuring snippets of sketches from all four seasons of the show, it was framed by a parody of a Real Housewives reunion, with a spray-tanned Schumer and co-stars like Bridget Everett cursing each other …
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The Big Steppers tour has taken Kendrick Lamar around the world in support of his fifth studio album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, and his first in five years. With a recently completed North American leg under his belt and dates in Australia and New Zealand on the horizon, …
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Bodybuilding’s most notorious crime is the focus of Netflix’s upcoming docuseries Killer Sally. The three-episode docuseries investigates the Valentine’s Day 1995 killing of national bodybuilding champion Ray McNeil, who was shot to death by his bodybuilder wife, Sally. She alleged she was being choked at the time of the shooting …
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“Is it still OK to call you my disco pickle?” By the time that Florence Shaw, Dry Cleaning‘s conversational poet-in-residence, asks that question on “Hot Penny Day,” a tune that marks the halfway mark for the group’s second album, Stumpwork, the answer will invariably be yes. Any reluctant cukes likely …
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Nicolle Galyon has ordered dinner out almost every night this week. This would not normally be a very notable occurrence for a busy songwriter, business owner, and now solo artist, but there’s a line on the opening track ofFirstborn, Galyon’s debut record, that is haunting her a little. “I sing …
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Pumpkin spice is in the air and on TikTok, the hygge aesthetic is building to a fever pitch. Videos of spooky still lifes and boots crunching through leaves have been circulating since July, and lately home-decor videos have a distinctly fall aesthetic to them. Candles burn in the twilight, and …
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After four days of deliberation — and more than 25 years of questions — a California jury found Paul Flores guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Kristin Smart. His father, Ruben Flores, was found not guilty of being an accessory to the crime. The decision came after an …
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Welcome to Midnights Week, when time won’t fly — it’s like we’re hypnotized by it. Taylor Swift’s Midnights is the biggest mystery in the music world right now, and all fans can do is ask questions. It drops at midnight Friday, almost five years after she dropped Reputation — five …
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Carrie Underwood has eight Grammy wins and 16 total nominations over her career, with the bulk of her recognition coming in the vocal performance categories. There’s good reason for that: Underwood has some of the most powerful pipes not just in country music, but anywhere. Even Axl Rose was persuaded …
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Except for what she describes as two “tours” of Washington D.C. — the first as an intern-turned-staffer in Mitch McConnell’s Senate office, and later as a political appointee to George W. Bush’s USDA — Dawn Riley has spent her entire life in Kentucky. She has also always been pro-choice: in …
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