Back in 2009, I called for Elizabeth Warren to run for president. I may have been the first media figure to do so. This was early in the Obama presidency, when he was beginning to renege on some of his progressive campaign promises (closing Gitmo, drug re-importation, etc.), but more …
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Stanford’s former sailing coach, John Vandemoer, will receive just one day in prison for his role in the college admissions scandal, according to NBC News. This is the first sentencing to occur as a result of the sweeping scandal surrounding William Rick Singer, the ringleader who helped children of rich …
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UPDATE: Neil Young, the Who and more than 700 artists may have lost master recordings in the 2008 Universal Music Group vault fire, according to a New York Times magazine follow-up report published on Tuesday June 25th. The massive list of artists, which spans eras and genres, was culled from …
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In the early, frigid months of 2016, Nicole was struggling. An aspiring actress with pin-straight dark hair and small, delicate features, Nicole had lived for years in Los Angeles, where she had had some minor success booking commercial work; she had just moved to New York City to build her …
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The Good Place, which Rolling Stone dubbed “the Smartest, Funniest Sitcom on TV,” will come to an end following its upcoming fourth season, the series’ creator Mike Schur announced Friday. As Schur wrote in a lengthy statement, it was the show’s creative team – and not the network – that …
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Singer-songwriter and activist Chely Wright made her first appearance at the Concert for Love and Acceptance on Thursday night, performing a pair of her hits as the event celebrated its fifth year. One of those was “Shut Up and Drive,” a 1997 hit for Wright that got a huge cheer …
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Black Mirror is known for taking the real-world technology we unquestionably take for granted – social media, dating apps, surveillance – and skewing it to a slightly fantastical degree. Following in line with the “what if our world but a little different” atmosphere of the show,Black MirrorSeason Five, released this …
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When an earthquake decimated parts of Armenia and killing between 25,000 to 50,000 people in 1988, the world was in shock. The USSR earmarked the equivalent of billions of dollars to help rebuild, the U.S. sent medical aid and search dogs, and people from all over Europe came to help. …
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The CMT Music Awards — country’s version of MTV’s VMAs — have long had a reputation as the genre’s most relaxed, anything-can-happen awards show. They also have an extensive history, with their origins stretching back to 1967, when the country publication Music City News began presenting honors to the genre’s …
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Five people were injured in a stampede at Philadelphia’s Roots Picnic Saturday after a false gun scare caused concertgoers to flee Fairmount Park during 21 Savage’s set. Four of the five people injured were underage, with one suffering a broken leg. “It was scary. Everybody just started running from one …
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