As per tradition, Barack Obama has closed out the year with his annual picks of his favorite songs, with tracks by Lil Nas X, Mitski, Brandi Carlile, and Lizzo among those that caught the former president’s ear in 2021. “I’ve always enjoyed listening to a wide variety of music, so …
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Billie Eilish celebrated her last week of being a teenager by hosting and performing on Saturday Night Live. The Grammy-winning pop star walked onstage for her monologue “dressed like Mrs. Claus going to the club.” During the brief intro, Eilish poked fun at her age, saying the reason she started …
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With murder convictions secured for Ahmaud Arbery‘s three killers, justice has been served — in part. But what about accountability for a pair of district attorneys who allegedly helped shield the killers from arrest for months? Decrying “what appears to be a cover up of this really serious crime,” Brandon …
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John Eastman, who pressured former Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 presidential election, intends to invoke his Fifth amendment right against self-incrimination, while at the same time claiming that he did nothing illegal. Politico reported the news on Friday. Eastman is one of several anti-democracy activists who were …
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Hours have apparently passed since Taylor Swift dropped her “All Too Well” short film, but time won’t fly — it’s like we’re paralyzed by it. The video, which Swift wrote, directed, and starred in alongside Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien, features the expanded version of the Red track, included on …
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Silk Sonic is Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak’s lavish love letter to Seventies soul music, particularly post-What’s Going On Motown and the sumptuous, string-bathed Philadelphia sound of greats like the Stylistics, the Delfonics, and Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. They created A Night With Silk Sonic during Covid quarantine, …
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Ageless wonder Paul Rudd was named People’s latest Sexiest Man Alive, but not before Stephen Colbert, a “sexiness adjudicator,” put the actor through a rigorous interview process on Tuesday’s Late Show. Colbert, as a representative of the LSSC Sexiness Research Institute, was tasked with finding the new Sexiest Man Alive, …
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After eight people died at Travis Scott‘s Astroworld, the rapper has canceled his upcoming set at this weekend’s Day N Vegas Festival and will refund all attendees, a source confirmed to Rolling Stone. Variety was the first to report the rapper’s plans. Friday, Nov. 5, a massive crowd surge killed …
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Kyrsten Sinema has developed a reputation for taking loads of cash from special interests and then bucking her own party’s agenda. Now, it appears that several companies affiliated with the Direct Selling Association, a multilevel marketing trade group, have been funneling money to the Arizona senator, who just so happens …
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The district attorney for Manhattan has convened a grand jury in a case looking into the Trump Organization‘s finances, The Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The grand jury will hear evidence in the case and possibly hand down indictments. This is the second grand …
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