President Trump is at a crossroads with regard to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, the Obama-era initiative the president just rescinded that protected nearly 800,000 undocumented individuals who came to the U.S. when they were young. And instead of picking one path to go down, he …
Read More »Bernie Sanders' Single-Payer Health Care Bill: What You Need to Know
For seven years, Republicans dined out a promise to repeal and replace Obamacare, and in the fall the slogan finally helped the party capture both chambers of Congress and the White House. Turns out, the Affordable Care Act was a lot more popular with Americans than Republicans realized before their …
Read More »Hurricane Harvey, Irma Relief Telethon: How to Watch Star-Studded Event
Thelive televised‘Hand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Relief’ telethon will include appearances and performances from Beyonce, George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, Drake, Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake, Dave Matthews, Travis Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio. The one-hour telethon, originally organized to help raise funds for victims of Hurricane Harvey, has since been …
Read More »Avicii Documentary 'True Stories' Chronicles DJ's Stage Retirement
UPDATE:Avicii: True Stories, the career-spanning documentary about the late Swedish DJ-producer, is now set for a wider U.S. theatrical release, following its one-night-only screening in 2017. The film will hit Los Angeles, California on Friday, December 14th, followed by New York, New York on Friday, December 21st. Avicii: True Stories, …
Read More »Dave Grohl Recalls Foo Fighters Backing 'Nervous' Mick Jagger on 'SNL'
UPDATE:Hear the full It’s Electric! episode between Lars Ulrich and Dave Grohl below. When Dave Grohl stopped by Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich‘s Beats 1 radio show, It’s Electric!recently, he told the story of how Foo Fighters became Mick Jagger‘s backing band on Saturday Night Live in 2012. As Grohl explained …
Read More »Review: Vampire Weekend Auteur Rostam Batmanglij Channels Worldly Vision
After putting in work on Frank Ocean’s Blonde (“Seigfried,” “Ivy”), Solange Knowles’ A Seat at the Table (“F.U.B.U.”) and various collaborative projects, ex-Vampire Weekend MVP Rostam Batmanglij has finally gotten around to releasing a proper solo LP of his own. And, admirably, he’s refused to choose between his former group’s …
Read More »Hip-Hop Family Tree: Nicki Minaj's New York City
Born Onika Maraj in Trinidad before moving to Queens, New York as a child, Nicki Minaj harbored artistic ambitions early in her life, and attended Fiorella H. LaGuardia High School – the performing arts academy made famous in the movie Fame. After graduation, she toiled on the fringes of New …
Read More »Hear Taylor Swift's Assertive New Song '…Ready for It?'
Taylor Swift has revealed a second track off her upcoming Reputation with new song “…Ready for It?” A portion of the song premiered Saturday during the broadcast of the Alabama vs. Florida State college football game before Swift dropped the complete track Sunday morning. Swift tweeted Saturday, “A second glance …
Read More »Mets Pitcher Noah Syndergaard Faced Backlash for 'Game of Thrones' Cameo
New York Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard finally made his appearance on HBO’sGame of Thrones on Sunday. Syndergaard was onscreen fleetingly, but long enough to identify as a muscular Lannister soldier at the episode’s climax – wherein he reckoned with a fire-breathing dragon. But some Mets fans on social media couldn’t …
Read More »'The Dark Tower': Blockbuster Take on Stephen King Epic Is Major Misfire
So much is so wrong about The Dark Tower, the stunted film version of Stephen King‘s marvelously dense and dazzling series of eight novels, that it’s hard to know where to kick off a critical reckoning. The crux of the problem is that the bestselling author’s magnum opus deserves an …
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