“Variety shows are complicated,” Tom Smothers toldRolling Stonein 2015. The occasion was the launch ofBest Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris, the ultimately short-lived attempt to revive the long-standing song-dance-and-skits format for TV. Few knew how thorny such undertakings could be than Smothers, who died this week at age 88. …
Read More »Best Music of 2023: Staff Picks
Ask anyone who works at Rolling Stone what they’ve been listening to lately, and you’re guaranteed to get an interesting answer. In the final weeks of the year, more than 30 colleagues from across the departments that make RS submitted their personal picks for the 10 best albums of 2023. …
Read More »Taylor Swift Fan at Brazil Concert Died of Heat Exhaustion
The cause of death for Ana Clara Benevides, the 23-year-old Swiftie who died at Taylor Swift‘s concert in Rio de Janeiro, has been revealed. The AP obtained a copy of a forensics report Wednesday, Dec. 27, confirming that Benevides died of heat exhaustion. The Forensic Medical Institute in Rio said …
Read More »Trump Demands MAGA Group Give Him 'Millions.' That's Not Legal, Experts Say
His former aide has been making bank off his name for years and he wants his cut, right now. At least that’s how former President Donald Trump sees it. “It’s my fucking money!” the 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner privately vented in October, referring to an alleged sum in the tens …
Read More »2023 Was the Year of the Reality TV Villain
It was the reality TV scandal to end all scandals. So earth-shaking that it got its own hashtag: #Scandoval. In early March, just a few episodes into the tenth season of Vanderpump Rules, it was sensationally revealed that Tom Sandoval — the worm-mustached cover-band lead and minority-stake West Hollywood bar …
Read More »'American Fiction': How Cord Jefferson Took on Hollywood and Won
Cord Jefferson wants to tell a quick story. It involves something that happened to a friend of his, although the writer-director of American Fiction is quick to point out that the incident in question could have easily happened to any number of Black creatives he knows, or for that matter, …
Read More »Trump: 'I Was Doing my Duty as President' by Claiming the Election Was Rigged
Donald Trump claimed that he was merely doing his “duty” as president by alleging that the 2020 election was “rigged” and “stolen,” therefore believes he deserves “immunity” from prosecution. “I wasn’t campaigning, the Election was over. I was doing my duty as President to expose and further investigate a Rigged …
Read More »Bad Bunny's 'X100PRE' Is A Love Letter To Nineties Kids from Puerto Rico
When Bad Bunny dropped his first-ever album X100PRE, it spread through the internet like good gossip. It was Christmas Eve in 2018, the same year that Bad Bunny had exploded as a global megastar — appearing on The Tonight Show and singing during Alesso’s set at Tomorrowland — despite being …
Read More »Kevin Spacey Has Another Bizarre Christmas Eve Video, This Time With Tucker Carlson
Continuing one of the worst Christmas Eve traditions, Kevin Spacey has dumped a lump of coal on the public with another one of those bizarre videos where he portrays his House of Cards character Frank Underwood. Making things worse, however, he’s also enlisted Tucker Carlson for a sit-down interview with …
Read More »AI is Already in the Newsroom
For journalists who work —or used to work— at G/O Media, the disclaimer at the bottom of numerous articles on the company’s e-commerce site, The Inventory, offers an unsettling vision of the future: “This article was generated by an AI engine which may produce inaccurate information.” That warning appears on …
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