Larry Flynt, the publisher of the sexually explicit Hustler magazine whose legal battles turned him into a flamboyant crusader for free speech rights, has died at 78. Flynt’s famed legal battles — which he took to the Supreme Court — were memorialized in the 1996 film The People Versus Larry …
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World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has announced that it would relocate its WrestleMania 37 event from the Los Angeles area — where 1 million people currently test positive for the coronavirus — to Tampa Bay, Florida. The annual event was originally scheduled to take place March 28th at Inglewood, California’s SoFi …
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On Saturday, after Apple and Google withdrew Parler from their app stores, Amazon provided the final blow when it announced it would be shutting off the servers for the “free speech” social media app popular among conservatives and far-right influencers. The app shut down temporarily on Sunday night. Conservative influencers …
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Who doesn’t love a festive holiday tradition? The Christmas tree has been trimmed, stockings have been hung, the elf is sitting on his shelf and, once again, people are debating whether “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is a song about rape. Every December, the Internet serves up a fresh batch of …
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One of the central (and, frankly, more insufferable) tenets of improv is the principle of “yes, and” — essentially, agreeing to everything your scene partner suggests and then building on it. The purpose of this is to free you up to be as flexible and responsive to your partner’s suggestions …
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iHeartMedia and Blumhouse Television have announced the release ofAaron Mahnke’s 13 Days of Halloween, a fiction podcast starring Keegan-Michael Key. Premiering on October 19th and airing during the 13 days leading up to this year’s Halloween, the iHeartMedia podcast will release a new episode each day. Set in the purgatorial …
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Forrest Fenn, the author and artifact collector whose book The Thrill of the Chase led fellow treasure seekers on a decade-long hunt through the Southwest, has died at the age of 90. Fenn died of apparent natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, police confirmed to CNN. …
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A new podcast will delve into the story of a group of preppy investors known as the “Billionaire Boys Club” who went from pulling get-rich-quick schemes to committing murder during the 1980s. The six-episode series will premiere August 18th with new episodes dropping every Tuesday (the whole series is currently …
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If you want to truly understand just how monumental, how transformative it is that the NFL’s Washington football team on Monday officially dumped its racist nickname, the Redskins, we need to briefly go back in time to the year 1961. The owner of the organization, George Preston Marshall, had refused …
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Barack Obama, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Kesha and more took part in Pride Live’s Stonewall Day livestream Friday, with former vice president/current Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden and his wife Jill also making a surprise appearance. “Whether we’re fighting to protect a patient from discrimination in the healthcare system or …
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