You do not spend six seasons crafting a character like Girls‘ Marnie Michaels — ambitious, artistic, self-centered, self-defeating, romantically confused, musically inclined, very flawed, very human — without leaving a certain impression on viewers. And if you’re smart like Allison Williams, you then find a role that takes advantage of …
Read More »Hear Ed Sheeran, Chance the Rapper, PnB Rock's New Song 'Cross Me'
Ed Sheeran, Chance the Rapper and PnB Rock caution they will clap back fast at anyone who steps to those they care about in new song “Cross Me.” The song appears on Sheeran’s forthcoming No.6 Collaborations Project, out on July 12th via Atlantic. While they don’t mess around with disrespectful …
Read More »Inside MeWe, Where Anti-Vaxxers and Conspiracy Theorists Thrive
Last month, Sheila McNallen posted that her husband, Steve, had been kicked off of Facebook, “apparently forever.” Steve is the founder of the Ásatrú Folk Assembly, a group headquartered in California that advocates for a return to Germanic Paganism, including an espousal of what they have deemed traditional, Nordic white …
Read More »See Taylor Swift, Brendon Urie Perform 'ME!' With Giant Butterfly on 'The Voice'
Taylor Swift and Panic! at the Disco‘s Brendon Urie performed their song “ME!” for just the second time live on the season 16 finale of The Voice. The two singers and their backing performers danced in front of a gigantic, bedazzled rainbow butterfly, with plenty of sparkles and technicolor swirls …
Read More »Tom Morello, Serj Tankian Honor Chris Cornell Onstage With Audioslave's 'Like a Stone'
Tom Morello recruited System of a Down singer Serj Tankian for a triumphant live version of Audioslave‘s “Like a Stone” during a solo set at the Sonic Temple festival in Columbus, Ohio. The performance fell almost exactly two years after the death of Chris Cornell, Morello’s former Audioslave bandmate. In …
Read More »Watch Aaron Paul Join 'Westworld' in Futuristic Season Three Trailer
Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul will join Westworld‘s upcoming third season, as previewed in a new trailer for the sci-fi Western series. The teaser, aired before the Game of Thrones finale, shows Paul’s character moving through a futuristic world before coming face to face with Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) in …
Read More »Leaked Documents Reveal 'Mindboggling' Spending at the National Rifle Association
Excessive spending at the National Rifle Association is “draining NRA cash at a mindboggling speed” and poses “an existential threat to the financial stability” of the gun group, according to slate of leaked documents that have spurred calls for the resignation of CEO Wayne LaPierre. Posted anonymously online, the documents …
Read More »'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' Season Finale Recap: Scheming With the Enemy
A review of the two-part Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season Six finale, “Sicko” and “The Suicide Squad,” coming up just as soon as I send you an eye-rolling gif from The Durrells in Corfu… Nine-Nine has a tradition of ending its seasons with cliffhangers that upend the series’ status quo. Season One …
Read More »Slipknot Preview New Album With Unsparing Headbanger 'Unsainted'
Slipknot unveiled a punishing new song, “Unsainted,” the first single from the group’s upcoming album, We Are Not Your Kind, out August 9th via Roadrunner Records. “Unsainted” opens with an expertly crafted build, as choir vocals float above rumbling drums, tidal wave guitars and frontman Corey Taylor’s vocals: “Oh, I’ll …
Read More »What's the Real Link Between Pot Dispensaries and Crime Rates?
For years, opponents of marijuana legalization have voiced the same arguments whenever the subject of dispensaries comes up: having legal cannabis vendors, they say, promotes the spread of crime, brings property values down in the neighborhood and encourages teenage marijuana use. And even though the push for marijuana legalization has …
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