WASHINGTON —President Trump’s speech on Wednesday about Iran‘s retaliatory missile strikes on two U.S. bases could be read in any number of ways. The mainstream papers will run with the raw news it contained: no American or Iraqi casualties from the attack, more economic sanctions on Iran, and that Iran …
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In the midst of the looming threat of war with Iran and myriad other world issues in the news cycle, you might not have heard about the fires currently blazing in the Australian bush, parks, and forests. But the bushfires have been devastating to residents of the area, with 20 …
Read More »See Eddie Murphy Tell Prince Stories, Talk 'SNL' Return on 'Fallon'
Eddie Murphy shared stories about his interactions with Prince during a visit Friday to The Tonight Show, where the actor also talked returning to Saturday Night Live, turning down Ghostbusters and hanging out with Johnny Cash and Marlon Brando. Murphy, talking to Jimmy Fallon one night before his long-awaited return …
Read More »Trump's Impeachment Was the Hottest Tourist Attraction in Washington
WASHINGTON — Some Americans still feel the need to witness history in person. When Andrew Johnson became the first president to be impeached in in 1868, a first-hand account was the only account. Radio was still 30-odd years away from being invented, television another 30 after that, and anyone who …
Read More »Democrats Charge Trump with Abuse of Power and Defying Congress in Two Articles of Impeachment
WASHINGTON —Seventy-seven days. Beginning with Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s formal announcement of an impeachment investigation in late September, it took 77 days for the House to produce articles of impeachment resulting from President Trump’s shakedown scheme with the Ukrainian government. House Democratic staffers worked through the night to put the finishing …
Read More »'Watchmen' Recap: Time Is a Flat Circle
A review of this week’s Watchmen, “A God Walks Into Abar,” coming up just as soon as the chicken and the egg come at the very same time… It is the spring of 1988. I am reading Watchmen for the first time, in a thick trade paperback collection I brought …
Read More »Cream Collect Four Complete Concerts for 'Goodbye Tour Live 1968' Box Set
Cream collect four complete concerts from the supergroup’s farewell tour for their upcoming Goodbye Tour Live 1968 box set. The four-CD set, out February 7th, 2020 and available to preorder now, features the three of band’s October 1968 California concerts – Oakland, Los Angeles and San Diego – as well …
Read More »'Safe Sex': Inside New Comic Set In Dystopian, Sexually Repressed Future
For sex workers everywhere, being asked to “Fill in the gap in your resume,” is a standard question during job interviews. Skills like bondage and pole dancing are usually omitted and replaced with Microsoft Word and Adobe Photoshop. But for the comic book series Safe Sex (stylized as SFSX), a …
Read More »Tough Night for Tulsi Gabbard
For all the expectations that Democrats had been sharpening their knives ready to carve up an ascendant Mayor Pete at the debate in Atlanta on Wednesday night, it was Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, floundering at two percent nationally, who ended up on the menu for her fellow Democrats. “I think that …
Read More »'Everybody's Everything' Review: Lil Peep Documentary Is Heartbreaking
It’d be easy to think Everybody’s Everything, the painfully intimate documentary on the late Lil Peep, is a strictly-for-the-fans endeavor — that the only audience are the people who heard songs like “U Said” or “Crybaby” and felt like someone had mysteriously tapped into their own inner monologues. And yes, …
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