Christine McVie’s estate and Pat Benatar have both closed deals to sell rights to their music to the acquisition firm HarbourView Equity Partners, the company tells Rolling Stone. McVie’s estate has sold her stake in Fleetwood Mac’s recorded music, which includes shares in hits like the McVie-sung tracks “Songbird” and …
Read More »AnnaLynne McCord Has Conquered Her Demons
A nnaLynne McCord had no desire to play Naomi Clark, the uber-privileged “queen bee” of 90210’s West Beverly High. She’d just had a terrible experience during the shoot of Fired Up!, a teen sex comedy about two high school football players who go to cheerleading camp to get laid. Apparently, …
Read More »Are These 'Reasonable' Republicans Privately Plotting an Abortion Crackdown?
At a fundraiser at the Country Club of Fairfax earlier this month, an attendee sidled up to Bill Woolf, a Republican running for state Senate, and told him plainly that she was disappointed in his embrace of a “compromise” on “the issue of life.” Woolf, who is running for office …
Read More »'Justice Will Be Sorted': Small Alabama Town Demands Answers in Police Shooting
Nick Perkins was fast asleep when he got the call that his brother, Steve, 39, had been shot dead by police. The authorities weren’t the ones on the other end of the line — instead, it was Steve’s wife, Catrela, who had heard about the incident from a cousin, who …
Read More »Trump Fined for Violating Gag Order … Again
Judge Arthur Engoron fined Donald Trump $10,000 on Wednesday after the former president once again violated a gag order put in place by the judge during his New York civil fraud trial. Earlier this month Engoron, who is overseeing the bench trial, slapped Trump with a narrowly tailored gag order …
Read More »Bas Chronicles Life in War-Torn Sudan in New Video 'Khartoum'
Fans of Bas, one of the first rappers signed to J. Cole’s Dreamville Records, know that the Paris-born, Queens-bred rapper calls several places home. Prominent among these is Sudan, where he says his friends and family are amongst the displaced and dead in a brutal war between the East African …
Read More »Scholastic Scraps Plan to Separate Diverse Stories After Accusations of Pandering to Racists
Scholastic, the children’s book publisher, will no longer separate titles that deal with race, gender, and sexuality at book fairs, according to The New York Times. The company, which runs more than 120,000 book fairs in elementary schools a year, had controversially started listing 64 such books in a catalog …
Read More »Self-Identified 'Former Incel' Charged With Threatening Mass Shooting on College Campus
A self-described “former incel” named Michael Pengchung Lee was allegedly planning a mass shooting at the University of Arizona before he was arrested, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday. He is charged with “transmit[ing] in interstate commerce a communication of a threat to injure the person of another.” On …
Read More »Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia
In the middle of a wave of rampant misinformation, excessive hate speech, and endless harassment, X owner Elon Musk set his sights on Wikipedia. On Sunday, Musk aimed a series of tweets at Wikipedia and its co-founder Jimmy Wales, mocking a call for more funding before immediately implying that the …
Read More »How Suge Knight Started a Podcast From Prison
Today, Breakbeat Media released the first episode of Collect Call With Suge Knight, a weekly podcast that Breakbeat Founder Dave Mays says will feature Knight holding phone conversations with him and other guests in the world of hip-hop and beyond. Death Row co-founder Suge Knight has long been one of …
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