Married during the pandemic, Joseph and Emily Ferlazzo were supposed to be celebrating their first wedding anniversary with a scenic Vermont camping trip. The couple left Northfield, New Hampshire, on Friday, October 15th, driving the converted bus that was also their home, which they lived in on Emily’s parents’ property. …
Read More »Chris Brown, Noted Judge of Character, Calls Kyrie Irving 'The Real Hero' for Anti-Vaxx Stance
Chris Brown has gone to bat for his friend and NBA star Kyrie Irving, calling him “the real hero” for his stance against Covid-19 vaccine mandates. In an Instagram Stories post on Wednesday, October 20th, Brown said he stood with Irving and added, “Whoever don’t like it … go live …
Read More »Stephen Miller Wanted to Send a Quarter of a Million Troops to the Border. Trump Had an Even Dumber Idea
Trump’s immigration policy was unfathomably cruel. It was just as unfathomably stupid. The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Stephen Miller, Trump’s unfathomably racist immigration guru, pressed the Department of Homeland Security to provide an estimate of the number of troops it would take to shut down and secure …
Read More »Seventeen Tease New EP 'Attacca' With Inventive Highlight Reel Medley
K-pop stars Seventeen teased their new EP, Attacca, with a highlight reel medley featuring a snippet of every song on the seven-track project. The clip opens as “Play” is pressed on a tape recorder, launching a medley/montage where the members of Seventeen perform snippets of each track in different settings: …
Read More »'Succession' Season 3 Premiere Recap: Battle of the Bastards
A review of the Succession Season Three premiere, “Secession,” coming up just as soon as a Pope follows me on Twitter… Midway through “Secession,” Kendall’s girlfriend Naomi Pierce jokes on the phone that he may be the best man in the world. Kendall laughs, then adds, an expression on his …
Read More »Capitol Police Officer Charged With Helping a Guy in His Facebook Fishing Groups Hide Insurrection Evidence
Federal prosecutors have charged a Capitol Police officer with obstruction of justice for helping a rioter hide evidence that he was at the Capitol on the day of the insurrection. The indictment claims that on January 7th, the day after the insurrection, Michael A. Riley contacted a man who participated …
Read More »Supreme Court Rulings Are Just 'Opinions,' Texas Argues in Defense of Abortion Ban
Lawyers for the state of Texas defended the state’s six-week abortion ban in federal appeals court by arguing that states have the right to interpret the Constitution however they please, regardless of what the Supreme Court says. “The Supreme Court’s interpretations of the Constitution are not the Constitution itself — …
Read More »Cyndi Lauper on 35 Years of 'True Colors,' Pride Anthems, and the Next Crop of Innovators
Cyndi Lauper is celebrating the 35th anniversary of her iconic sophomore album, True Colors, which came out on October 14th, 1986. And to mark the occasion, she’s dropping a new expanded digital version at midnight Friday, featuring two bonus tracks: Junior Vasquez’s remix of the title track, a Number One …
Read More »Cash App Wants to Fund Your Next Album
Independent artists have found an unlikely wealthy benefactor willing to bankroll their latest project: Cash App. The mobile payment service today launched Cash App Studios, an initiative designed to help independent creatives, including artists, musicians, directors, and designers, fund their projects. Cash App declined to disclose financial details of their …
Read More »'The Grief Is in the Saxophones': Cate Le Bon Reveals New Album 'Pompeii'
Cate Le Bon gazes into television screens across eerie synths in the video for “Running Away,” her first new music since 2019’s Reward. “I’m not cold by nature,” Le Bon sings, accompanied by saxophonist Euan Hinshelwood. “But this could bring me to my knees.” The track is the lead single …
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