The 2017 CMA Awards may have been pushing a message of unity and harmony on Wednesday, but it was a different story on Jimmy Kimmel Live, where Blake Shelton, Chris Stapleton and others took some savage internet abuse in “Mean Tweets – Country Music Edition.” Shelton added a slightly indignant …
Read More »Taibbi: A Year After Trump's Election, Nothing Has Changed
Exactly one year ago today, Donald Trump was elected president. For many Democrats, it was a trauma surpassed in their lifetimes only by 9/11. For some, it remains unsurpassed for sheer shock/horror value. And according to The Washington Post, not much has changed: “Confronted with the events of the past …
Read More »Dustin Lynch, Craig Campbell Sing for Kenny Rogers at SESAC Awards
Kenny Rogers was the guest of honor when music rights organization SESAC held its annual Nashville Music Awards Monday night in Music City. The country and pop star was the recipient of SESAC’s Legacy Award, recognizing his contributions in all areas of entertainment. Dustin Lynch, Lee Brice and Kim Carnes …
Read More »Harvey Weinstein: NYPD Weigh Arrest in Sexual Assault Case
The New York Police Department held a press conference Friday where they announced they are building a criminal case against Harvey Weinstein and weighing an arrest warrant for the producer who has been accused by dozens of women of sexual assault. “If this person was still in New York and …
Read More »Corey Feldman Names His Alleged Pedophile Abuser on Dr. Oz Show
UPDATE: Corey Feldman named Eighties actor John Grissom as one of the men who allegedly sexually molested him as a teenager during a sit-down chat with Dr. Oz Thursday. The former child star called the LAPD to file a report against Grissom during the show, noting that the actor still …
Read More »Watch N.E.R.D. Team With Rihanna for Bouncy 'Lemon' Video
Pharrell Williams revived his N.E.R.D. project and teamed with Rihanna for a new track called “Lemon,” which debuted Wednesday a mysterious billboard campaignhinted at the return of the Neptunes’ band. The bouncy “Lemon,” which premiered on Beats 1 before the music video dropped moments later, opens with Pharrell setting the …
Read More »'The Square': Why This Art-World Satire Will Make You Squirm
We should probably start with the muscular, shirtless man perched on a banquet table, shrieking like an animal and terrorizing folks at a $5,000-a-plate dinner. There will be many scenes in The Square, the new pitch-black comedy from Swedish director Ruben Östlund about a museum director in moral free-fall and …
Read More »UFC Champ Michael Bisping Denies Wrongdoing in Alleged Gym Assault
UFC Middleweight champion Michael Bisping denies wrongdoing in an alleged gym assault which resulted in him being sued by a 19-year-old male. Bisping, who is a little more than a week away from putting his title on the line against Georges St-Pierre in the UFC 217 main event, is the …
Read More »Hear Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace Cover 'Squidbillies' Theme Song
Against Me!‘s Laura Jane Grace will be featured in this weekend’s Squidbillies episode with a cover of the Adult Swim animated show’s theme song. The show airs on Cartoon Network at midnight on Sundays. As Alternative Press points out, Grace takes viewers into the studio in a behind-the-scenes video for …
Read More »The Climate Apartheid: How Global Warming Affects the Rich and Poor
Below is an excerpt from The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and theRemaking of the Civilized World, to be published by Little, Brown on Oct 24, 2017. As cities around the world adapt to the harsh realities of climate change, the divide between the doomed and the saved …
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