At a time when Black people and others are marching in opposition to police brutality and discrimination in astounding numbers, the president’s daughter bemoaned “cancel culture” and “viewpoint discrimination” for the cancellation of her planned virtual commencement address to a Kansas technical school. “Our nation’s campuses should be bastions of …
Read More »How Longtime Political Illustrator Victor Juhasz Started Sketching Essential Workers
Since finding himself in COVID-19 lockdown, Rolling Stone illustrator Victor Juhasz has been drawing the people who keep the gears of modern life turning. “We’re realizing that the people that we oftentimes disregard have actually become the essential workers,” Juhasz says. “The CEOs are not necessarily the important people. They’re …
Read More »Dr. Dre on George Floyd's Death: 'It Felt Like That Cop Had His Knee on All of Our Necks'
Dr. Dre discussed the killing of George Floyd during a conversation with Lil Wayne for the rapper’s Young Money Radio show on Apple Music. “That situation, it hurt my heart. My heart is still aching,” Dr. Dre said of Floyd’s death. “And it felt like that cop had his knee …
Read More »How One Music Producer Turned an 11-Year Prison Sentence Into a Mixtape to Help Inmates
Not long after Eric Abercrombie, who raps as Maserati E, arrived in San Quentin state prison in 2017, he witnessed a performance by another inmate named David Jassy. “His stage presence and delivery were nuts,” Abercrombie recalls. “I couldn’t understand one verse because it was in Swedish, but it was …
Read More »Billie Eilish Slams Body Shaming in Powerful 'Not My Responsibility' Short Film
Billie Eilish unveiled her powerful short film, Not My Responsibility. The video originally debuted during the singer’s Where Do We Go? World Tour, which was postponed in March due to the COVID-19 crisis. In the affecting clip produced and written by Eilish, the singer is seen alone in the dark …
Read More »How a Sex Worker Created a New NSFW Genre: 'Spite Porn'
Allie Eve Knox, an adult-content creator specializing in findom (financial domination, a fetish related specifically to payment), has gotten a lot of unique requests before: “Armpit tickling. Armpit humiliation. Pegging my lawyer,” she says, ticking them off. Someone once asked her to role-play as an evil substance-abuse counselor; another hired …
Read More »Madeleine Albright Discusses the COVID-19 Crisis of Leadership With Trevor Noah
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright discussed the qualities of leadership needed during a time of crisis in an interview with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show Monday. The interview began with Albright recalling her childhood in England during World War II and discussing the trust the people had in …
Read More »Bad Bunny Releases Surprise Album 'Las Que No Iban a Salir,' Extending His Hot Streak
Bad Bunny released a surprise 10-track album, titled Las Que No Iban A Salir, or The Ones That Were Not Coming Out, on Sunday at noon. A number of reggaeton luminaries are featured on the album, including Don Omar, Yandel, Zion & Lennox, and Nicky Jam. The hit-writer-turned-solo-star Jhay Cortez …
Read More »'There's Power in Laughing at the Pain': 'Brockmire' Creator on Series' American Nightmare
The fantastic final season of IFC’s baseball comedyBrockmiretakes place in the early 2030s, in a world ravaged by climate change, income inequality, and an inescapable sense that the apocalypse is already happening. Yet there is still baseball, and the series ends on a hopeful note for its announcer hero Jim …
Read More »See Miley Cyrus Cover Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here' on 'SNL at Home'
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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