If you’ve spent any time on social media over the past decade, you’re likely familiar with the Minions, the adorable, rotund yellow henchmen figures popularized by Illumination Entertainment’s hugely successful Despicable Mefranchise. In the movies, with the latest entry Minions: The Rise of Gru opening July 1, the Minions serve …
Read More »Soccer Mommy Deepens Her Indie-Rock Brilliance on 'Sometimes, Forever'
“And I got a heart that beats too fast,” Sophie Allison informs us on her third album as Soccer Mommy. “And a shake in my hands and a pain in my back.” The song is called “Feel It All the Time,” a perfect example of her ability at channeling her …
Read More »Busy Philipps Arrested at Abortion Rights Rally in D.C.: 'We Will Not Back Down'
Actress Busy Philipps was among the protesters detained Thursday at a Washington, D.C. rally against the repeal of Roe v. Wade. Philipps documented her arrest for “crowding, obstructing or incommoding” on social media, with the actress sitting with a group of protestors in an intersection near the Supreme Court. U.S. …
Read More »Hear Beck's Re-Recorded Rendition of 'Where It's At' From New Audible Special 'Dear Life'
Beck has shared a newly recorded rendition of his 1996 single “Where It’s At” and breaks down the origins of the Odelay classic in these exclusive clips from the singer’s upcoming episode in Audible’s Words + Music series. For the episode dubbed “Dear Life” — named after a cut off …
Read More »'I Feel Heard. And Believed': Read R. Kelly Survivor Kitti Jones' Emotional Victim Impact Statement
“Many have been waiting for this day to come.” Kitti Jones entered a Brooklyn courthouse on Wednesday, ready to confront the man she says sexually and physically abused her for more than two years. In 2017, after years of silence, Jones came forward to detail her relationship with R. Kelly, …
Read More »Closing Abortion Clinics Costs Us More Than Access to Abortion
Nearly every day at 6:30 a.m. a small group of mostly men, and a smaller amount of women, stood on the sidewalk in front of my local abortion clinic grasping rosaries, chanting the Lord’s prayer, and jumping in front of cars with pamphlets about why all pregnancies should result in …
Read More »Winona Ryder Checks 'Stranger Things' Scripts to Keep Them on Eighties Point
Winona Ryder’s acting chops are not the only contribution she makes to Stranger Things. The Eighties icon also makes sure the scripts stay true to the era. In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Ryder’s costar David Harbour said she gives feedback to creators Matt and Ross Duffer on the scripts …
Read More »Supreme Court to Rule on Whether Republican State Legislatures Can Rig Elections
The Supreme Court couldn’t manage to end its disastrous summer session without promising more horrors to come. The highest court in the land announced on Thursday that it will determine this fall whether state legislatures can conduct elections as they see fit, regardless of whether they are in violation of …
Read More »How Did 'Hallelujah' Become a Classic? A New Leonard Cohen Doc Explains Why.
Vintage songs are regularly remade, sampled and, most recently, interpolated into new ones. But even in that context, the saga of Leonard Cohen‘s “Hallelujah” remains singular. A song that was initially rejected and ignored by the music business in the Eighties has, over the last two or three decades, become …
Read More »Pilots Are Airlifting Patients Out of Red States to Get Abortions
The patient’s first two appointments were canceled. When Oklahoma’s governor signed the nation’s strictest abortion ban into law on May 26, her third was moved from a Planned Parenthood in Oklahoma City to the closest clinic with an appointment roughly a 10-hour round trip drive away, in Kansas. (The local …
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