Director Paul Feig, actress Bridget Everett, and other friends and allies are remembering Laura “Lauri” Ann Carleton, who was allegedly shot and killed for hanging a Pride flag outside her store near Lake Arrowhead in California on Friday night. According to authorities, San Bernardino County deputies responded to the shooting …
Read More »'Oliver Anthony for President': What We Saw at Viral Songwriter's Concert
It’s been less than two weeks since the video for Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of Richmond” made its way onto YouTube and the life of the Farmville, Virginia-based country singer hasn’t been the same since. The once-unknown songwriter, who as recently as August 7 claimed to be living off …
Read More »'San Francisco Sounds' Reveals the Discovery of Janis Joplin
The San Francisco music scene was bursting with magic during the Sixties and Seventies, from the rise of radio DJs and eye-catching poster artists to Rolling Stone magazine and a number of iconic acts who emerged from it, including the Grateful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, Steve Miller, Santana, …
Read More »Trump Says He Will Duck GOP Debates
Donald Trump is taking the easy way out by choosing not to stand up to his Republican opponents on the debate stage. The former president wrote that he “WILL NOT BE DOING THE DEBATES!” in a post on Truth Social. In the post shared on Sunday, Trump first bragged about …
Read More »The Conservative Activist Who Brought Down Affirmative Action Has a New Target
Twenty years ago, Arian Simone was a college student in Tallahassee, Florida, trying to scrape together money for a small mall-based boutique called Fabulous. “I started to notice that a lot of investors didn’t look like me,” Simone, a Black woman, tells Rolling Stone. “I made a promise to myself …
Read More »'Dahmer' Directors Say Emmy-Nominated Netflix Series Honors Victims
When it came to Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment in Netflix’s Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, director Carl Franklin pictured a gritty fish tank filled with yellow-green algae and lifeless fish. He wanted to reach audiences on a visceral level, placing viewers in the notorious serial killer’s putrid living room …
Read More »Shaq Is Dead Serious About Dubstep
When Shaquille O’Neal logs onto Zoom for a quick chat about his new dubstep album, he tells me that he’s at a vacation home in Antarctica. “I bought it online,” he says with a smirk. “Me and my boys, we had a couple of days. ‘Yo, let’s fly and see …
Read More »Victoria Monét on Sex, Soul, and Women 'Doing What the F-ck We Want'
For more than a decade, Victoria Monét has powered her career as an independent musician through her work as a songwriter. It’s been lucrative enough that she never really had to bank on major record labels taking a chance on her as a leading artist. Sure, it would have been …
Read More »Ariana Grande Details Week's Worth of 'Yours Truly' 10th Anniversary Plans
Ariana Grande has announced a week’s worth of plans to celebrate the 10th anniversary of her debut album Yours Truly, including a series of live performances, a Q&A, and a deluxe digital reissue of the 2013 LP. As the singer revealed Saturday in a video featuring decade-old footage, the festivities …
Read More »Trump Says Actually He's Going to Hold Off on Proving Election Was Rigged
It was clearly too good to be true. Days after announcing a press conference during which he promised to present irrefutable proof that the 2020 election was rigged against him, Donald Trump has canceled the big reveal. Earlier on Thursday, ABC News reported that sources close to the president had …
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