In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Rep. Rashida Tlaib to discuss her initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic and how she deals with Trump. Matt and Katie respond to Hillary Clinton’s conversation with Joe Biden, and the multifaceted tone-deafness of Clinton …
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Ramy Youssef‘s comedy-drama series Ramy, for which he won an acting Golden Globe, is back with Season Two, premiering May 29th on Hulu. In the first teaser for the new batch of episodes, Youssef portrays first-generation Egyptian-American Ramy Hassan as he embarks on a spiritual journey in his politically divided …
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Picture a modernized, queer-teen version of Cyrano de Bergerac, in which the title character is a closeted Chinese-American girl who’s hired by a tongue-tied jock to write love letters to win the heart and mind the high-school queen they both secretly love. That’s the starting point for Alice Wu’s sweetly …
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In 2006, I worked my first shift as a beat journalist in the video game business — an industry I would go on to cover for the following half-decade. The big news that year was the arrival of Gears of War, developed for Microsoft’s Xbox 360, in which a troop …
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Dashboard Confessional‘s Chris Carrabba is self-isolating at his home in Tennessee as he prepares for his charity livestream, As Social As I Get Now, Tuesday at 8 p.m. EST. All proceeds will go to Music Health Alliance to fund COVID-19 relief efforts, and Spotify will match donations. In the meantime, …
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Miley Cyrus performed an acoustic cover of the Pink Floyd classic “Wish You Were Here” as musical guest on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live at Home. Sitting next to a fire pit that lent the performance a red glow, Cyrus and her socially distanced guitarist Andrew Watt (who …
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As the pandemic-induced economic crisis decimates the music industry, many musicians and songwriters are scrambling to make a living. For those who have written songs but yet to receive payment through traditional sources — publishers and performing rights collection agencies — a number of financial companies are vying to help. …
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Sara Evans makes several unexpected song choices on her upcoming covers album Copy That, which includes versions of tunes from the Wallflowers, the Pretenders, and Hank Williams. One of her most unusual covers is “Come On Eileen,” the Eighties hit by left-field English new wave group Dexys Midnight Runners, which …
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The Beatles‘ 1968 animated movie, Yellow Submarine, is coming to the band’s official YouTube channel on Saturday, April 25th, at noon EDT as a one-time-only special event. The lyrics will appear on the bottom of the screen so the whole world can sing together as one during the coronavirus lockdown. …
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Michael Moore spoke with Stephen Colbert about combating the coronavirus, the “Trump virus” and what he called “the pre-Trump virus” on The Late Show Tuesday. While ousting Trump from office in November was first on Moore’s mind, he acknowledged that the president “didn’t fall out of the sky” and that …
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