On a sunny day in May, a very strange reunion is happening in the dusty desert town of Hildale, Utah. In an empty lot, tables and chairs stand in long rows, covered with plastic tablecloths that flap in the wind. At noon, the guests arrive. They come in Hondas and …
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Sony is buying EMI Music Publishing, adding two million songs from artists like Alicia Keys, Kanye West and Queen to its already-vast publishing catalog and cementing its position as the world’s largest music publisher. The Japanese corporation is paying around $2 billion for a 60 percent equity stake in EMI, …
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Tina Fey revived her Sarah Palin impersonation for a Saturday Night Live musical number that reunited some of Season 43’s Trump White House characters. “Here’s a refresher: I was the first female on a Republican presidential ticket and now I get paid to tweet for Bass Pro Shops,” Fey’s Palin, …
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Jessie Reyezexamines how women through the eras have paid the price for injustice and gender inequality in the empowering new video for “Body Count.” In the Peter Huang-directed video– filmed in Reyez’s Toronto hometown – Reyez has apparently violated some puritanical societal standard and is dragged across a field to …
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Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee have released a report of “preliminary findings” about the Trump campaign’s infamous meeting with Russians at Trump Tower seeking “incriminating information on Secretary Clinton.” The report raises more questions than it answers: “We still do not know,” it reads, “the full story about the …
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Throughout the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump assured Americans that if he were to become president, he would only hire “the best people.” Trump’s ability to follow through on this promise has been undermined by a growing number of administration officials who have either resigned, been fired, been indicted or found …
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John Oliver slammed Donald Trump‘s “moron” attorney Michael Cohen on Last Week Tonightover accusations that he sold access to the president for millions of dollars. Cohen – whom the comedian described as “a lawyer so shitty, he made Trump say, ‘I need someone good – get me Rudy Giuliani on …
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After Donald Glover issued his heavily symbolic video for Childish Gambino single “This Is America,” think-pieces and essayspoured in from all corners of the Internet, dissecting the clip as a critique on gun violence and racism. But the actor-rapper-singer told Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday that he’s purposefully stayed away from …
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Everybody who’s seen Slayer live has a tale to tell. Some are like war stories: There’s the time fans ripped the seats out of New York City’s Felt Forum, lit them on fire and threw them at the stage. And the Denver concert where the audience got so manic that …
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Oliver North led the opening prayer at the annual NRA national convention in Dallas, Texas, over the weekend, as he has in previous years. “Heavenly father, when our day is done, let it be said of us that we were a people who fought the good fight, who finished the …
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