Weeks before President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Donald Trump’s legal team went to Georgia in a last-ditch effort to find election fraud. Led by lawyer Sidney Powell, the team copied data from voting machines in Coffee County. The effort represented a new front in the MAGA assault on elections, with Trump’s …
Read More »Bassist Darryl Jones Celebrates 30 Years With the Rolling Stones: 'I Did What I Dreamt of Doing'
Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …
Read More »Breonna Taylor's Boyfriend Opens Up About Night of Police Shooting: I Thought They Were Going to 'Kill Me' Too
Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenny Walker, talked in-depth about the night his girlfriend was shot and killed by police on the new episode of Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk. Taylor and Walker were in their apartment on the night of March 13, 2020, when Louisville Metro Police executed a no-knock …
Read More »The 1975's Matty Healy Opens Up About Heroin Addiction and the 'Emotional Hangover' That Followed His Bandmate's Intervention
The 1975’s Matty Healey got candid about his struggles with addiction and how his heroin use marked one of the first real tests for the band in a new interview with Zane Lowe. The full episode airs today, Oct. 12, at 1 p.m. ET on Apple Music 1. As Healy …
Read More »You'll Never Guess Where Oliver Stone Allegedly Got $5 Million to Make His Glowing Doc About Kazakhstan's Ex-Authoritarian Ruler
Oliver Stone’s 2021 documentary about Kazakhstan’s former authoritarian ruler, Nursultan Nazarbayev, reportedly received at least $5 million in funding from a charitable organization run by none other than Nazarbayev, according to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. Qazaq: History of the Golden Man, directed by Igor Lopatonok, was released …
Read More »After Spending Billions on the Metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg Is Left Standing on Virtual Legs
Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of a truly immersive virtual landscape for work, play and socializing — “the metaverse” — has been plagued by technical challenges and criticism from the start. But that’s to be expected of what purports to be a game-changing Silicon Valley innovation. The corporate line seems to be …
Read More »GOP Candidate Punished by NYPD for Losing Gun, Going Rogue as a DJ
Anthony D’Esposito is running to replace retiring Rep. Kathleen Rice in New York’s 4th Congressional District. D’Esposito is a former New York City cop marketing himself as a law-and-order Republican, but as the New York Daily News reported on Monday, he had some issues following the rules when he was …
Read More »'I'm Happy This is Me': Destiny Rogers on Coming Out and Living Her Truth
Destiny Rogers is hanging out in a North Hollywood recording studio when, all of a sudden, Diana Ross’ “I’m Coming Out” rings out from the back. Rogers’ friends appear out of nowhere, armed with flowers and a cake with the words “Soy gay!” written on it in uneven frosting. More …
Read More »Ed Sheeran Gifted Sam Smith a 6-Foot 'Concrete' Penis Statue: 'I'm Not the First'
An “Unholy” gift for sure! Apparently, Ed Sheeran gifted his good friend Sam Smith a six-foot statue of a penis. (Not kidding.) On Tuesday, Smith joined the Kelly Clarkson Show and was asked about the unusual “trophy” that Sheeran gave him. “It’s actually wild. I thought it was a joke, …
Read More »How 'Jeopardy!' Finally Found Life After Alex Trebek
On the latest installment of Celebrity Jeopardy!, host Mayim Bialik was interviewing that night’s contestants when a potentially awkward topic came up: Actor Ike Barinholtz is a huge fan of the other current Jeopardy! host, Ken Jennings. Barinholtz quickly elaborated that he loved watching Jennings as a Jeopardy! superchampion. As …
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