The first question most U.S. dispensary owners get from new customers walking through their doors usually has something to do with the percent of THC in their weed. It’s been all the rage in 2021. Based on conversations I’ve heard from leaders in the space, flowers on the shelves can …
Read More »Tierra Whack Celebrates Love in Behind-The-Scenes Look at 'Body of Water' Video
Tierra Whack has dropped the surreal, dolphin-starring video for her new single “Body of Water.” She gave Rolling Stone an exclusive look behind the scenes alongside director Cat Solen. “Body of Water” is Whack and Solen’s third time working together. Solen comments on how visionary Whack is, having very specific …
Read More »Lauren Boebert Isn't Letting Murdered Teenagers Get in the Way of Trolling Liberals Over Gun Control
It’s been just over a week since four students were killed and seven people were injured after 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley allegedly opened fire at Oxford High School in Michigan. Sandy Hook quashed the idea that any particular school shooting has the power to inspire Congress to enact common-sense gun reform, …
Read More »The 10 Best Crime Podcasts of 2021
The true crime podcast genre reached the point of parody this year, with Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building depicting obsessive listeners who bungle their way through an ill-advised amateur murder investigation. As demand for the genre continues to boom, it seems like every day brings a new “investigation” promising …
Read More »Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Social Distortion to Sail on 'Outlaw Country West' Cruise
This February marks the sixth sailing of the Outlaw Country Cruise, the annual Caribbean excursion of against-the-grain country, rock, and Americana artists and their fans. In November 2022, a new cruise with a similar rebel aesthetic —Outlaw Country West —will embark on a Pacific journey. Like the Outlaw Country Cruise, …
Read More »Tom Petty to Receive Posthumous PhD in Music From University of Florida
Tom Petty will receive a posthumous doctoral degree in music from the University of Florida after the school’s board of trustees voted unanimously to honor the late rocker Friday. While the Heartbreakers frontman never attended the University of Florida, he was born and raised in Gainesville — where the school …
Read More »'Weird Al' Yankovic Announces 133-Date 'Ill-Advised Vanity Tour' For 2022
“Weird Al” Yankovic is returning to the road next year for an encore run of his Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tourthat he’s calling The Unfortunate Return of the Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour. It will once against focus on his lesser-known album tracks and skip over nearly all of his …
Read More »How Will We Know If Existing Covid-19 Vaccines Work Against Omicron?
With the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus now detected in 24 countries including the United States, questions are mounting about its potential impact, including how — and whether — existing Covid-19 vaccines will hold up against this latest iteration of the virus. Though much is still unknown about the …
Read More »Severed Deer Head on Campus, Rumors of Violence Preceded Michigan School Shooting
On the morning of Nov. 30, Robin Redding’s son Treshan, a senior at Oxford High School in Michigan, asked if he could stay home from school that day. Usually, Treshan goes to school with his cousins, but that morning, they weren’t answering their phones. “He felt that was kind of …
Read More »Quack TV Doctor Thinks He Deserves to Be a Senator, Because That's Where We Are Now
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the quack doctor who became famous as a fixture of Oprah Winfrey’s media empire, is hoping to parlay his TV career into a political one. The surgeon and TV host announced Tuesday that he running as a Republican for the Pennsylvania Senate seat being left vacant by …
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