In the short time since Lifetime’s release of a bombshell documentary detailing R. Kelly‘s alleged years-long history of sexual assault, everything has changed for the R&B singer — and nothing has. Around 20 million TV viewers watched the six-part series, titledSurviving R. Kelly,within thefirst week of its January 3rd debut, …
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King Crimson will celebrate their 50th anniversary with a year full of special releases and events, including a 50-date tour spanning three continents. The prog-rock band confirmed three U.S. shows for September: the 3rd in Los Angeles, California; the 10th in Chicago, Illinois; and the 21st in New York, New …
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Lana Del Rey released a new song “hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have –but I have it.” Throughout the cut, described in a statement as a “fan track,” Del Rey meditates on religion, family, alienation and the myths that surround celebrity. “I was reading …
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Lee Fields, a 68-year-old soul singer, has a cutting tenor best suited for romantic pleas and songs of supplication. He believes that work is more valuable than ever in a time when public discourse is increasingly characterized by rancor and animosity. “There are so many things happening in the world …
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Elle Fanning enters a singing competition and battles for the chance at pop career in the new trailer for Teen Spirit. The teaser cobbles together shots of Fanning singing a cover of Robyn’s “Dancing on My Own,” kinetic dance practices and images of glossy performances that wouldn’t be out of …
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg — the Notorious RBG to those who cheer her 25 years of defiantly independent thinking on the Supreme Court — sure as hell deserves a biopic. At 85, the jurist is such a cultural icon that she’s portrayed by Kate McKinnon on SNL as a ball of …
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Last week, a group of 163 migrants who crossed the border nearLordsburg, New Mexico, turned themselves in to Border Patrol. Among the migrants was a Guatemalan man and his seven-year-old daughter, Jackeline Caal. Eight hours after they were taken into custody, Caal began having seizures. She was flown to the …
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Chris Cantwell, a.k.a. the “Crying Nazi,” responded to the conviction of James Fields, who was found guilty of first-degree murder for plowing a car into protesters in Charlottesville, by threatening “complete and total destruction” of “Charlottesville and the broad left” in a post on social network Gab. On Friday, Fields, …
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Sebastián Silva’s scathing, scorched-earth take on bro culture,code-switching and how best buddies double as bitter underminers kicks off with a mistake. Two guys are pushing their car down an upstate New York road, shooting the shit. One of them is waiting for his friends to come along and get them, …
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Can you #MAGA too hard? According to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel you can, under very specific circumstances. The OSC on Friday found six Trump Administration officials guilty of violating the Hatch Act, a 1939 law prohibiting government employees from engaging in political activity while on the job. At …
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