Kate McKinnon‘s Elizabeth Warren impersonation received its biggest Saturday Night Live spotlight yet with a cold open sketch that found the Democratic presidential hopeful explaining her Medicare for All plan during an Iowa rally. “Hello, it is good to be here. Look at me, I am in my natural habitat: …
Read More »What's Going on With Jeffrey Epstein's Autopsy?
Two months after observing the autopsy of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, a forensic pathologist hired by Epstein’s brother has claimed that the injuries associated with his death are more consistent with homicide than suicide. But until we have more information, according to experts, it’s impossible to know what really happened. …
Read More »Chance the Rapper on 'SNL': 3 Sketches You Have to See
If Saturday Night Live episodes were named like installments of Friends, this episode would be called “The One With the Giggles.” With Chance the Rapper the biggest offender, everyone had a hard time keeping it together for the majority of the episode. That laughter was part of an overall shaggy …
Read More »Jason Isbell's October Tradition: Songwriter Is Surefooted and Sturdy at Nashville Residency
The Washington Nationals walloped the Houston Astros during Game Two of the World Series last night, but for the 2,362 fans who packed the pews at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, there was only one October tradition worth watching: the fifth show of Jason Isbell‘s yearly residency at the Mother Church. Isbell’s …
Read More »U.S. Troops Withdrawing From Syria Don't Have Permission to Stay in Iraq
While civilians tried to stop a U.S. military convoy from leaving the Syrian town of Qamishli on Monday — standing in the streets, pelting the armored vehicles with vegetables as they passed — Iraq, where those troops were headed, is not welcoming them with open arms. En route to Afghanistan …
Read More »Everybody Wants a Piece of Black-Cowboy Culture
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 …
Read More »Kamala Harris Gloriously Claps Back at Donald Trump Jr.'s Insult
President Donald Trump’s eldest son was up to his usual antics on Twitter on Friday night. Donald Trump Jr. loves to revel in right-wing memes, perhaps in a desperate attempt to finally win daddy’s love, and so he shared a video compilation of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) …
Read More »Rick Wakeman on His Tumultuous History With Yes, Playing on Bowie's 'Space Oddity'
When Yes were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017, the surviving members of the band lined up behind a podium at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn and delivered the sorts of speeches you’d expect from veteran musicians who had waited decades for this moment of …
Read More »There's a Trump/Ukraine Quid Pro Quo Hiding in Plain Sight
Donald Trump has insisted, repeatedly, that there was no quid pro quo in his administration’s negotiations with the Ukranians and his pressing Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky for the “favor.” But there’s a quid pro quo hiding in plain sight in the cache of text messages released Thursday night by the …
Read More »Mark Ronson Courageously Comes Out of the Closet as … Sapiosexual
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 …
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