O MAHA — The shelves at the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers’ International Union Local 50 are lined with boxes of Kellogg’s products that the union members and their mothers, brothers, and grandfathers have packed over the past century. A Froot Loops box commemorating the 2012 Olympics sits …
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Two men charged in September with felony kidnapping have now been charged with murder in the missing persons case of Cassidy Rainwater, a Missouri woman who appeared caged and partially nude in photos sent to the FBI. On Wednesday, the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department announced the murder charges against Timothy …
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In the wake of the Astroworld tragedy, which has left eight people dead and hundreds more injured, conspiracy theories about the incident have been swirling on all social media platforms, ranging from anti-vaccine misinformation to theories about concertgoers being injected by drugs to QAnon influencers promoting the idea that headliner …
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The eight deaths and dozens of injuries at the Nov. 5 Astroworld Festival in Houston’s NRG Park appear to have been preceded by a series of red flags, going back to the early days of festival founder Travis Scott‘s touring career. In 2017, Scott, always known for wild shows, went …
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You’d think it’d be pretty cool to be an Eternal. After seeing Eternals — Marvel Studios’ latest movie, out Nov. 5 — I’m not so sure. In the first place, you’re immortal, or something like it, which on the upside means you get a front seat to the slow but …
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When last we left the corrosive Roy family in the Succession Season Two finale, prodigal son Kendall (Jeremy Strong) had just publicly accused cruel patriarch Logan (Brian Cox) of being complicit in their company’s pattern of heinous sexual and human rights abuse. When the HBO Emmy winner finally returns after …
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You don’t have to spend too long with Dave Grohl to realize why he called his new memoir The Storyteller. In his interviews with Rolling Stone for Foo Fighters’ new cover story, as well as in his book, due October 4th, the Foo Fighters frontman shared memories that ranged from …
Read More »Jazmine Sullivan Took Some Time Off, But Don't Call It a Comeback
This piece originally appeared as part of Rolling Stone’s Hot List 2021, in the July–August double issue of the magazine. Toward the end of 2019, Jazmine Sullivan got some heartbreaking news: Her mother, Pam, a former background singer who once co-managed Jazmine’s music career, had been diagnosed with breast cancer. …
Read More »How Amythyst Kiah Revamped Her Rootsy Sound on a Powerful New Album
On the collaborative 2019 project Songs of Our Native Daughters, Amythyst Kiah wrote and sang “Black Myself,” leading her bandmates Allison Russell, Rhiannon Giddens, and Leyla McCalla in a potent anthem about ingrained racism and resilience. The group was creating on the fly, re-centering black stories in roots music. “Black …
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In a stadium of over 20,000 fans standing shoulder to shoulder eagerly awaiting their first star-studded concert in over a year, no one was more excited than Dave Grohl. “This is a fucking rock concert!” the Foo Fighters frontman said multiple times between the band’s set, as if he still …
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