The Ukrainian passenger jet that crashed after takeoff from Tehran on Wednesday morning — shortly after an Iranian missile strike on U.S. targets in Iraq — may have been shot down. “I have my suspicions,” President Trump told reporters on Thursday. “Somebody could have made a mistake on the other …
Read More »Harvey Weinstein Charged With Rape, Sexual Assault in Los Angeles
Prosecutors in Los Angeles charged Harvey Weinstein with sex crimes involving two women Monday, the same day his trial on similar charges began in New York City. Weinstein is accused of raping one woman and sexually assaulting another in separate incidents spread over two days in 2013. He’s facing felony …
Read More »Maybe Trump Should Stop Using Twitter to Threaten Nations With Nuclear Programs
President Trump’s Iran policy doesn’t seem to be working out very well. Since he pulled the United States out of the nuclear deal brokered by the Obama administration, Iran has both resumed its nuclear program and found new ways to stir up trouble in the region. The latest provocation came …
Read More »David Lee Roth Once Had a Fake Phone Number That Almost Ruined a Marriage
Author Nancy French remembered how David Lee Roth nearly inadvertently ruined her fledgling marriage in a new piece for The Washington Post. The piece is centered around French’s marriage to a man named David, whom she met at age 20 and married soon after. At the time, many of her …
Read More »The Twenty-Teens: The Most Sort-of Decade of All Time
So: We need to talk about the Teens. The decade that’s about to end. The one that began with Katy Perry doing an unironic Kenny G revival and is ending with Kanye West doing an unironic Kenny G revival. A decade full of iconic stars: Beyoncé, Taylor, Rihanna, Kendrick, Kacey, …
Read More »Is Trump Afraid of 'No Puppet. No Puppet. You're the Puppet' 2.0 As He Threatens to Skip Debates?
President Donald Trump is raising the possibility of passing on the coming general election debates. Trump told advisors last week, according to the New York Times, that his lack of trust for the Commission on Presidential Debates is why he may sit out. Trump also tweeted about possibly skipping the …
Read More »The First Time: Pete Townshend
Pete Townshend released his first novel, The Age of Anxiety, earlier this year. And when he sat down with Rolling Stone in a New York City hotel room to talk it over, he also looked back to share several other firsts from his long life, from his first time seeing …
Read More »Trump's 'I Want Nothing' Rant Triggers Glorious Memes and Songs
While EU ambassador Gordon Sondland was testifying during Wednesday’s impeachment hearings President Donald Trump attempted to defend himself to the media. The president held a pad of paper with words written in all-caps with a sharpie and read aloud in dramatic fashion: “I WANT NOTHING. I WANT NOTHING. I WANT …
Read More »Pearl Jam's 'Vitalogy': How Band Nearly Came Apart Making Volatile LP
They wanted to call it “Life,” and by the time Pearl Jam began recording their third album, their lives seemed pretty charmed. Despite ignoring nearly every dictate of the music business, they had sold millions of copies of Ten and Vs. Creatively, Pearl Jam were on such fire that they …
Read More »5 Fresh Moments From the 5th Democratic Debate
Having reached the fifth Democratic debate of the 2020 primary cycle, habitual viewers risk coming away with that not-so-fresh feeling. They know that Bernie Sanders welcomes the rage of the billionaires, that Elizabeth Warren has big plans for the big ideas that Amy Klobuchar agrees with on principle but wants …
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