Cardi B had an altercation with Nicki Minaj‘s security detail while trying to confront the Queen rapper Friday night at a New York Fashion Week gala. After Cardi B was escorted out of the Harper’s Bazaar event, the rapper was photographed with a large bruise over her left eye, no …
Read More »Jamil Smith: Don't Mistake Complicity for Courage
It may no longer be front-page news, but the Trump administration is still locking kids in cages. Nearly 500 of them, according to court papers filed late last week. Twenty-two are younger than five years old. The deadline to return these children to their families passed more than a month …
Read More »Aretha Franklin: Fans Pay Respects to Singer at Public Viewing
Hundreds of Aretha Franklin fans gathered Tuesday morning to honor the late soul icon, who died from pancreatic cancer earlier this month at age 76. A public visitation began Tuesday at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History in Franklin’s hometown of Detroit, Michigan. The singer’s body was displayed …
Read More »Watch John Oliver Issue Series of 'Retractions' in 'Last Week Tonight' Segment
In an exclusive web clip, John Oliver offered a series of “retractions” for mistakes he’s previously made on Last Week Tonight. In lieu of a new episode of the HBO series, Oliver reminded viewers that even he can’t be right 100 percent of the time. “I wanted to take a …
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Sondra Battle was fed up. Every time something needed to be repaired in the Washington D.C. grandmother’s federally-subsidized apartment, it seemed to take an ungodly number of phone calls to make it happen. The mold was the last straw. Last spring, after she says her resident manager refused to send …
Read More »The Last Temptation
“Now are you ready to go back?” a tuxedoed band leader asked the crowd at Staten Island’s St. George Theatre on a rainy night in May. “I’m talking about all the way back … allow me to introduce the one and only vocal group voted number one of all time!” …
Read More »Watch Taylor Swift Dust Off 2006 Deep Cut 'A Place in This World'
Taylor Swift’s currentReputation tour is heavily centered around material from her new album, but there’s one major exception. On a spare second stage, Swift ditches choreography, picks up an acoustic guitar and revives an old song “I haven’t played in so long.” So far, they have included fan favorites “Our …
Read More »Face-Tat Fever
Post Malone recently went viral after getting the phrase “Always Tired” tattooed across his face, but it wasn’t much fun. “He said it felt like I was tattooing his eyeballs,” says his tattoo artist Chad Rowe. Malone isn’t the only artist making his mother’s worst nightmare come true. Getting face …
Read More »How David Bowie's First Song Was Rescued From a Dusty Bread Basket
David Hadfield was combing through old boxes in the storage space of his Surrey, England home about 20 years ago when a bread basket from his father’s long-ago days as a bread delivery man caught his eye. Inside was a series of dusty tapes from Hadfield’s time as a rock …
Read More »Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett to Sell Guitars From Personal Collection
Foo Fighters‘ Chris Shiflett is selling 20 guitars from his personal collection, including ones he used during his tenure with the rock band. “I have an excess of guitars that I’ve gotten over the years —I have more than I could even really play and more than I do play. …
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