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Justin Cory Richard sits at a watering hole somewhere outside of East Los Angeles. It’s empty, save for a few patrons and a regular who has just pulled up a bar stool next to us. Richard, a 36-year-old African American professional bull rider from Houston, is dressed like he came …

Rip Taylor, the animated comedian who always left behind a trail of confetti, died Sunday, The New York Times reports. He was 84. Taylor’s publicist, Harlan Böll, confirmed Taylor’s death, saying the comedian suffered a seizure before he died at a Los Angeles hospital. An exact cause of death, however, …

Some men are adept at intellectualizing their sexual desires; put another way, they spend an awful lot of time thinking and talking about what makes the blood flow to their peeners. John Mayer, who gave an infamous Playboyinterview referring to his “Benetton heart and David Duke cock,” is one such …

There’s a folksy saying that grandparents of all stripes like to dispense: If it looks like a duck and acts like a duck, then you shouldn’t be surprised when it starts quacking. Another, perhaps less folksy version of this idiom is Occam’s Razor, the theory that the simplest explanation for …

Six months after J.D. Salinger’s estate revealed plans to release some of the author’s unpublished work, the estate is now also readying to bring Salinger’s classic stories to digital libraries for the first time. The New York Times reports that four of Salinger’s greatest published works – The Catcher in …

In the spring of 1968, weeks before the start of her final year of life, Judy Garland met with a biographer to discuss collaborating on her memoir. The author, Gerold Frank, was a journalist well-known for ghostwriting the life stories of celebrity women, including Zsa Zsa Gabor. The meeting, arranged …

Update (5/31/19): On Friday, the Illinois State House voted 66-47 to pass the adult-use cannabis bill after three hours of deliberation, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.It will now be sent to Governor J.B. Pritzker’s desk. He has said that he plans to sign it into law, making Illinois the 11th …

It seems former Attorney ­General Jeff Sessions was correct about one thing: Pot legalization has provided cover for criminals, ­allowing illicit production to thrive. Experts estimate that at least 30 percent of cannabis ­cultivated in legal states is being “diverted” to illicit ­markets across the country. The biggest problem has …

The Robert Kraft surveillance tape, which allegedly shows the 77-year-old owner of the New England Patriots receiving sexual services at a massage parlor, is a little bit like the infamous Goatse meme: you shouldn’t have any interest in seeing it, but you kind of want to anyway. Over the past …

On Thursday, the Tate became the latest institution to reject any further donations from the Sackler family, the controversial owner of Purdue Pharmaceuticals, which is alleged to have played a major role in driving the opioid crisis. In a statement, a spokesperson for the Tate wrote: “The Sackler family has …