Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company Higher Ground will team with Spotify to produce a slate of podcasts exclusive to the streaming service. Per a statement, the Obamas will help develop, produce and lend their voices to select podcasts. The shows will reportedly cover “wide-ranging topics,” though no specific issues …
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After each of The Good Place’s first two seasons ended with wild cliffhangers, Mike Schur went into radio silence for a few months to let fans talk amongst themselves about what had happened and what might come next. Season Three concluded in a less shocking place — with Eleanor and …
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AJR’s new single “100 Bad Days” began when frontman Jack Met entered a single line into his cellphone: “A million bad days made a million good stories.” “I didn’t even think of it as a song concept,” the singer tells Rolling Stone. “I just thought, ‘That’s kind of a cool …
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TheGame of Thrones Live Concert Experience will return for its third tour this fall, bringing the HBO series’ grand score to 20 venues throughout the U.S. and Canada. The North American trek launches September 5th in Syracuse, New York and wraps October 5th in Los Angeles, California. Tickets will be …
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Madonna — and several of her hologram doppelgängers — performed a riveting version of “Medellín” with Maluma on Wednesday at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. With a giant “X” representing her forthcoming Madame X on display, Madonna appeared laying on the stage, flanked by greenery scenes behind her. …
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Since the dawn of the Drug War, federal legislators have stood by, or even applauded, as millions of Americans have racked up convictions for marijuana offenses — with arrests increasing in the latest FBI crime statistics, despite nearly a dozen states having already legalized cannabis. But over the past two …
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Ozzy Osbourne is “getting back on his feet” after undergoing surgery to repair a previous leg injury that he aggravated in a recent fall, his son Jack Osbourne said Wednesday. During a pair of interviews to promote his new Travel Channel show Portals to Hell, Jack offered a health update …
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Spotify‘s free tier is one of the modern music industry‘s most controversial talking points — and one of the Swedish company’s strongest competitive advantages. Spotify has regularly proffered the following justification for its “freemium” model: In a world where YouTube and piracy sites allow any of us to access most …
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Late last month, less than 72 hours after special counsel Robert Mueller submitted his report on Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, two listings popped up on Amazon that appeared to make the report available for the general public. There was only one problem: the full report …
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On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver examined the disturbing realities of the mobile home industry — notably, a system of land ownership that allows some of America’s richest people to prey upon some of the country’s poorest. Around 20 million people, one in 18 Americans, live in mobile (or …
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