The president told the meager audience who attended his rally in Tulsa on Saturday night that he gave an order to slow testing for coronavirus. Ever since, his staff have downplayed Trump’s claim by calling it a joke. But on Monday, the president himself refused to back down from the …
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UPDATE: Attorney General Bill Barr released a statement on Saturday saying that because federal prosecutor Geoffrey Berman will not voluntarily step down, he has been fired. According to the New York Times, the statement says that Berman had “chosen public spectacle over public service.” Barr’s statement continued, “Because you have …
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From his office window, attorney Buck Colbert “B.C.” Franklin could see planescircling low overhead Greenwood, the thriving African American district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the early morning hours of June 1st, 1921, and they were growing in number. Moments later, he heard “something falling like hail upon the top of …
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Samantha Bee continues herFull Frontal Live From the Shed performance series for quarantine, this time with Dirty Projectors. The Brooklyn-based group led by David Longstreth comes out with a new EP,Flight Tower, on June 26th, and they performed the collection’s lead single, “Lose Your Love.” With Longstreth on guitar and …
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Cypress Hill will play their hits during a livestreamed concert Friday — filmed entirely with 360-degree video technology. The rap group’s Live From L.A. gig — the first time Cypress Hill has performed together since the COVID-19 lockdown began — will stream exclusively on June 19th for free through the …
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“No one confesses on the stand!” a friend assures the title character of HBO‘s Perry Mason remake. The line is meant as a wink at Mason’s previous incarnations, where, in both the books by Erle Stanley Gardner and the Fifties/Sixties TV series starring Raymond Burr, the defense lawyer famously won …
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Folk Uke, the rootsy music project from Amy Nelson and Cathy Guthrie, address toxic masculinity and the threat it poses to all living things in their new song “Small One.” Under deceptively sweet guitar strums and melancholic steel pedal, Nelson and Guthrie target a man who has gotten too “big-headed” …
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Working as a nurse at the St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio in the 1950s and 1960s, Mary Gregory saw a healthcare system that was broken. In fact, just getting to that position was a struggle: After initially being rejected from the St. Vincent School of Nursing, in 1951, …
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Metallica will put out their S&M2 concerts — where they performed alongside the San Francisco Symphony last year — as a box set this summer. Lars Ulrich announced the release Wednesday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live! when he surprised Long Island nurse Tracy Bednar during the host’s #HealthcareHero segment. She …
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The Hi, How Are You Project — the mental health nonprofit inspired by the life and legacy of Daniel Johnston — has shared a previously unreleased clip of Johnston and Jeff Tweedy performing “Walking the Cow.” The footage comes from the Chicago stop on Johnston’s 2017 farewell tour. At each …
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