Madonna received the GLAAD Media Awards‘ Advocate for Change award Saturday night at Manhattan’s Hilton Midtown, where the singer delivered an emotional speech that was among the ceremony’s highlights. “The first gay man I ever met was named Christopher Flynn,” the 60-year-old entertainer and longtime advocate for gay rights said. …
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Two black men walk into a bar. “It was a dark and stormy night,” Open Mike Eagle says in an old-timey British accent, setting the stage. “A man with a double-breasted blazer and a smoking pipe walks in,” Baron Vaughn says, picking up his friend’s story. Then the punchline arrives. …
Read More »Watch Khalid Float Through 'Talk,' 'Better' at Billboard Music Awards
Khalid delivered a double shot of songs from his new album, Free Spirit, performing “Talk” and “Better” at the Billboard Music Awards Wednesday. Khalid opened with “Talk,” floating through the track with impeccable ease, and even tossing in a few new vocal runs while a troupe of back-up dancers moved …
Read More »Desus and Mero Review 'Game of Thrones,' Talk Cory Booker's Dirty Basketball on 'Fallon'
Desus and Mero stopped by The Tonight Show Tuesday to talk about getting into Game of Thrones during the final season, the unique animals of the Bronx and playing 2020 presidential hopeful Cory Booker in basketball. Fallon opened by asking Desus about his first foray into Game of Thrones, which …
Read More »Donor Is Giving $9 million to Harvard and MIT to Study Marijuana
When people hear about collegiate marijuana research, they might conjure up images of a group of students in the basement of an ivy-covered building, getting high in a lab and watching Parks and Recwhile being hooked up to electrodes. But the reality of cannabis research is likely much more sober …
Read More »New York Dolls Guitarist Sylvain Sylvain Launches GoFundMe for Cancer Fight
New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain revealed that he has been battling cancer for the past year and has launched a GoFundMe to help pay for an upcoming surgery and recovery. Sylvain didn’t offer many details about the cancer, but said he hoped his upcoming surgery would “do the trick.” …
Read More »Steely Dan to Perform Classic LPs in Entirety at East Coast Residencies
Steely Dan will perform their classic albums in their entirety during a fall tour that features extended residencies in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. The trek itself begins August 27th in Youngstown, Ohio and continues on for 11 more shows before Steely Dan land at New York’s Beacon Theater for …
Read More »2020 Candidate Seth Moulton Rips Democratic Rivals: 'They're Divisive Like Trump'
Democratic congressman Seth Moulton (D-MA), an Iraq war veteran who announced his candidacy for president early this week, wants you to know that presidential candidates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren who are trying to push America towards more progressive policies are bad for our country, and he’s running to …
Read More »Flashback: 'NSync Sing 'This I Promise You' in a Bubbly Forest
Ever since Ariana Grande nearly reunited ‘NSync at Coachella, rumors that the beloved boy band are on the verge of a Timberlake-free reunion have inundated the internet. “The world of pop needs this to happen,” proclaimed Nick Carter — a statement no one thought the Backstreet Boy would utter in …
Read More »Pony Bradshaw Previews Debut Album 'Sudden Opera' With Haunting 'Bad Teeth'
Ahead of the release of his debut album Sudden Opera in June, Georgia singer-songwriter Pony Bradshaw delivers a haunting performance of the song “Bad Teeth.” A track off the upcoming LP, its lyrics showcase the darker side of Bradshaw’s psyche, one formed by years of traveling the U.S. as the …
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