Ellie Goulding shared an intimate two-song set, featuring performances of “Flux” and “Power,” for the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s In My Room series. The singer delivered her performance from a studio space in Oxford, England, where she was accompanied by a pianist named James. The simple set-up was particularly …
Read More »Watch This Devastating Fact-Check of Trump's Lie-Filled Fox News Interview
CNN anchor Brianna Keilar dissected President Trump’s weekend interview with Fox News, and the number of lies she found is so mind-boggling that at one point she said, “He’s even lying about the lie there.” On the coronavirus, Keilar said that the president is “denying reality” so much so that …
Read More »Trailers of the Week: 'Feels Good Man,' 'Idiot Prayer,' 'Project Power' and More
Fear City: New York vs The Mafia A new Netflix documentary series revisits New York City in the 1970s – an era where the city’s promise of fun was replaced with great fear instilled by the mob, until the FBI decided to go after all five families. “The boss asked …
Read More »A 'Kanye 2020' Committee Just Filed With the FEC, But Is It Legit?
UPDATE 2 (7/16): On Thursday morning, Kanye West filed a FEC Form 2 Statement of Candidacy under his recently announced Birthday Party (abbreviated to “BDY” on the form). The form is filed, per a FEC rep, “once an individual has raised or spent more than $5,000 in campaign activity, triggering …
Read More »Pizzagate Proponents Latest Insane Theory: Ghislaine Maxwell Was Involved With JonBenét Ramsey's Murder
Since Jeffrey Epstein‘s death under mysterious circumstances last summer, conspiracy theorists of all stripes have been making hay with it, connecting any and all people who have ever been directly or indirectly associated with him to any and all criminal cases of the past 40 years. So it was only …
Read More »Naya Rivera of 'Glee' Missing After Going Boating With Her Son
Actress Naya Rivera is missing after boating in a lake near Los Angeles. According to local authorities, officials found the Gleeactress’ four-year-old son floating alone in their rented boat on Lake Piru — in Ventura County’s Los Padres National Forest — on Wednesday afternoon. “There’s no evidence of foul play …
Read More »Could a New Swine Flu Strain Mean a Second Pandemic?
Six months into the global COVID-19 outbreak, a study has come out documenting a relatively new strain of the H1N1 swine flu virus. The authors say this strain — G4 EA H1N1 — must be dealt with “urgently” in order to prevent a potential pandemic. At this point, the virus …
Read More »Run the Jewels Wish Their New Album Didn't Make So Much Sense Right Now
It starts with a fake TV-show intro, a shootout, a getaway, and a couple of outlaws hitting the road like they were the Thelma and Louise of hardcore agit-pop rap. It goes out not with a bang, but with grown men laying their souls bare while flipping the bird to …
Read More »Of Course Cops Weren't Poisoned at a Shake Shack
When most of us get diarrhea at a fast food restaurant, we chalk it up to consuming too much sodium too quickly, or age rendering our digestive system more sensitive, and move on. This is not exactly what happened yesterday, when the Police Benevolent Association (PBA) reported that three NYPD …
Read More »'Love, Victor': A Coming-Out Story That Doubles As A Corrective
Love, Victor, the TV spin-off of the 2018 film Love, Simon, opens up with a sequence designed equally for those who have seen the movie and for those (like me) who haven’t. The show’s title character, high school student Victor Salazar (Michael Cimino), summarizes the plot of the movie — …
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