During a stop on Courtney Barnett’s touring festival Here and There, the musician took the stage with Sleater-Kinney and Fred Armisen to pay tribute to Olivia Newton-John with a cover of her 1981 single “Physical.” For the energetic cover, the group donned ’80s headbands and Armisen showed off his best …
Read More »Ron DeSantis Is Campaigning For Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Last Friday night, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis made a bold pitch for re-election to the voters of Pennsylvania. A couple hours later, he took the same stump to Ohio. Two days after that, on Sunday, he flew back to his home state – the only one in which he is …
Read More »Two Convicted in Plot to Kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
The first trial for the alleged ringleaders of a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer with the hopes of sparking a civil war ended in a mistrial. The government has now recovered from that embarrassment, securing a conviction on Tuesday from a jury on retrial in the case of …
Read More »'House of the Dragon' Premiere Recap: Once Upon a Time in Westeros…
King’s Landing. The Iron Throne. The Red Keep, the theme song, the sex and the violence, more platinum-blonde Targaryens than you can shake a Valyrian steel sword at. And dragons. Big, flying, fire-breathing dragons. Based on its premiere episode — you can’t properly call it a pilot, since the whole …
Read More »'The Rehearsal' Finale: A Comedic Rorschach Test Takes a Strange Turn
This post contains spoilers for the season finale of The Rehearsal, which is now streaming on HBO Max. Among the most clever things about Nathan Fielder‘s The Rehearsal is that its very structure, along with the secrecy behind how Fielder and company produced the docu-comedy, makes it almost entirely analysis-proof. …
Read More »Marjorie Taylor Greene Endorses Candidate Who Hired Convicted Sex Offender
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has endorsed Carl Paladino, a far-right Republican running to represent New York’s 23rd District in the House of Representatives, and who hired a convicted sex offender to work on his campaign. “Carl is the America First, pro-Trump candidate in the race,” Greene wrote in a statement. …
Read More »Think the CDC F-ked up Covid-19? Monkeypox and Polio Aren't Going Any Better
It’s right there in the name: the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is supposed to prevent outbreaks of infectious diseases — or, failing that, control them. But the Atlanta-based CDC by its own admission screwed up the initial response to the Covid-19 pandemic back in early 2020. And …
Read More »'Free Chol Soo Lee': The Anti-True Crime Documentary That Exposes Much More Than a Terrible Miscarriage of Justice
On the surface, Julie Ha and Eugene Yi’s Free Chol Soo Lee tells the story of an infamous wrongful conviction and its long cultural aftermath. If you recognize the name, you know the story. In Chinatown, San Francisco, in 1973, a man named Yip Yee Tak was gunned down on …
Read More »Harry Styles Is a 'Love Island' Stan — and Six Other Takeaways From Our Cover Story
Damn, in his global cover story with Rolling Stone, we learned a lot about Harry Styles — “the most wanted man in the world.” From his TV-watching habits to his disdain for the bird app, Styles opened up like never before about his life over the past several years. He …
Read More »Andrew Tate Banned From Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube
Former kickboxer and semi-professional misogynist Andrew Tate has been booted from Facebook and Instagram as a consequence of violating their content policy, a Facebook spokesperson confirmed to Rolling Stone. Tate, who boasted over 4.6 million followers on Instagram, has achieved viral fame by becoming an online “lifestyle” guru who panders …
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