When Ivy Queen first recorded “Yo Quiero Bailar” in 2002, both she and her lyrics were total anomalies in the Latin music industry. With a title translating to “I Want to Dance,” the sweltering reggaeton cut reclaimed the club for women and championed the freedom to dance — not to …
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WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort, the disgraced Republican operative and former Trump campaign chairman, arrived in a courtroom in northern Virginia on Thursday in a wheelchair and wearing a green jumpsuit and staring down the possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars. In the end, he got off …
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Preparations for Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged appearance in November 1993 were reportedly tense, but that’s not how easygoing Meat Puppets songwriter and frontman Curt Kirkwood remembers it. One of his fondest memories, in fact, is of joking with Kurt Cobain just before the now-legendary performance. “We were walking down towards the …
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This is the 10th dispatch in a series from Jeff Goodell, who will be investigating the effect of climate change on Thwaites glacier. Ali Graham, a 37-year-old geophysicist from the U.K.’s University of Exeter, is a tall, thin man with a pointy beard and a soft-spoken manner. When he’s not …
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For the past 40 years, researchers have desperately been trying to find a cure for HIV. Although antiretroviral treatments now make living with the virus manageable, many still cannot afford such drugs, and researchers have yet to find a way to eliminate the virus from the body entirely — until …
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“My dream was to be like ’NSync,” says Hayley Kiyoko. The 27-year-old singer-songwriter had this epiphany in fourth grade, when she saw her favorite boy band perform live. “My dream was to have screaming girls around and be successful and popular,” she adds. “But I thought, ‘I’m a girl, and …
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During a Republican celebratory event at the West Virginia capitol on Friday hostilities rose after a poster was displayed that pictured Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) along with an image of the fiery World Trade Center on 9/11. The poster was displayed in the capitol’s rotunda during a Republican event called …
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Cardi B and Bruno Mars bring the after party to the taco spot in the video for their new collaboration, “Please Me.” The neon-lit clip opens with Mars and his friends eating a late-night snack at a Mexican restaurant when Cardi and her crew roll in. A few loaded glances …
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L7 rock out in an angel dust hellscape in the video for their new song, “Burn Baby,” which will feature on their first record in two decades, Scatter the Rats. The group will also release the song as the A-side to a seven inch on Record Store Day, April 13th. …
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A Star is Born will return to theaters for one week with 12 minutes of new footage, including extended musical performances, Variety reports. The film will be rereleased in more than 1,150 theaters across North America starting Friday, March 1st. Warner Bros. teased the rerelease with one of the additional …
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