You may remember back in 2020 when South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravsnborg made news for hitting and killing a man with his car. The incident made national news, albeit briefly, and Ravsnborg got off easy. He was charged with a few misdemeanors for which he paid fines, never appeared …
Read More »'Winning Time': It's Good to Be the King
A review of this week’s Winning Time, “Memento Mori,” coming up just as soon as I ask not to be buzzard fucked… Two of the three main stories of “Memento Mori” involve making the best of a bad situation in the moment, while the third seems to involve someone taking …
Read More »His Films Documented Russia's Last Ukraine Invasion. Now He's Living Through This One
Sergei Loznitsa’s Donbass, the Ukrainian filmmaker’s movie that made the festival rounds in the now-seemingly ancient year of 2018, kicks off with two different vignettes. We watch an older woman getting rings put around her eyes in a makeup trailer — she’s part of a “cast” of “everyday people,” along …
Read More »Jimmy Kimmel Tees Off on 'Snowflake' and 'Sociopath' Marjorie Taylor Greene for Reporting Joke to Capitol Police
Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted on Wednesday that she reported Jimmy Kimmel to the Capitol Police for a joke he made at her expense. Kimmel kept going after the conspiracy theorist from Georgia on Thursday night, repeating the joke, calling her a “sociopath” and “snowflake,” and wondering why someone who has …
Read More »Jewel Blasts the 'Dicks' and 'Small Penis Men' Who Tried to Shape Her Narrative
UPDATE 4/10: Twenty-four years after Kurt Loder’s contentious interview with Jewel, and days after the singer resurfaced her criticism of the former MTV News anchor (“He was just a dick”), Loder has finally apologized to Jewel. “That MTV interview I did with Jewel was a shitty thing to do to …
Read More »Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian Got 'Practice-Married' in Vegas
UPDATE (4/7):False alarm! It seems Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian only got “practice-married” in Las Vegas earlier this week. When Kardashian finally posted pictures of their ceremony on Instagram, it was with the caption: “Once upon a time in a land far, far away (Las Vegas) at 2am, after an …
Read More »Nic Collins Looks Back on Final Genesis Tour and Ahead to New Band Better Strangers
Nic Collins isn’t exactly sure where he is at the moment, but he’s somewhere in Florida between Miami and St. Petersburg. Six days before speaking with Rolling Stone, he played drums at the final date of the last Genesis show at the 02 Arena in London, and now he’s in …
Read More »Museum Dedicated to Metallica's Cliff Burton Set to Open Near Site of Tragic Bus Accident
A museum honoring the legacy of late Metallica bassist Cliff Burton is set to open in May in Ljungby, Sweden, near where Burton died in a tragic tour bus accident in 1986. The Cliff Burton Museum, funded in part by the Swedish government, will feature ephemera from Burton’s tenure with …
Read More »Wet Leg's Self-Titled Debut is the Sneeringly Sarcastic, Relentlessly Catchy Post-Punk Record the World Has Been Fiending For
There are many ways to introduce yourself as you crash into rock & roll history. It turns out that one of those ways is to yell, “I went to school and I got the Big D!” The U.K. duo Wet Leg made a surprise splash last year by dropping two …
Read More »Exclusive: Jan. 6 Committee Interviews Longtime Steve Bannon Associate Alexandra Preate
Alexandra Preate, a longtime aide and spokesperson for former President Donald Trump’s ex-chief strategist Steve Bannon, was interviewed Tuesday by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol. Preate’s interview comes as the committee is preparing to hold public hearings about its investigation. Bannon, …
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