At almost eight months pregnant, Brittany Echols, 31, stood in the Saturday afternoon heat; the stifling humidity hard on anyone as it topped 70 percent outside the Supreme Court. Yet, defiant to the blazing sun, sign in hand, she participated in her very first protest. “My daughter is my choice,” …
Read More »Jennie on Blackpink's Unique Brand of Hip-Hop and What People Get Wrong About Her
D uring breaks from her recent Rolling Stone photo shoot, Jennie Kim could more than once be spotted walking arm in arm with staffers from YG Entertainment, Blackpink’s label and management company. “I talk to her often about my own problems,” says stylist Park Minhee, who’s known Blackpink since before …
Read More »'Just Evil': Gunman Kills 19 Kids at Texas Elementary School
It has been less than a decade since 26 people, most of them children, were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary, and barely 10 days since the last major U.S. mass shooting made national news in Buffalo. And now, yet again, the nation faces the senseless deaths of a mass shooting …
Read More »Why Did Dispatch Just Rerecord Their Most Famous Song — in Russian?
It’s a gray April morning in a sleepy town outside Boston, and Chadwick Stokes is in the wood-walled studio above his garage, reworking a song he wrote decades ago. “The General” tells the tale of a Civil War veteran who has a dream that makes him realize the futility of …
Read More »Twerking, Time Warps and Tenacious D: A Viewer's Guide to the Daniels
To hear Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert — the directorial duo known collectively as “Daniels” — tell their origin story, it was something like withering contempt at first sight. They were both film students at Emerson College in Boston, they shared a 3D animation class together, and neither of them …
Read More »'A Way of Life Is At Stake.' Striking John Deere Workers Defy the Company, and Their Union, to Tell Their Stories
I t’s an October Saturday in Iowa and the farmers ride green machines. Some wear headphones as they tend the land between the towns of What Cheer and Ottumwa. The Hawkeyes are playing the Badgers, a game that can’t be missed, but, still, there’s work to be done and only …
Read More »Rick Ross… Luxurious Landscaper?!
My Obsessionis a regular column in which our favorite musicians show off their nonmusical passions.Rick Ross is a man of simple pleasures. He enjoys a fast car, a well-rolled blunt, and the clean look of his own freshly mowed lawn. “It’s something I look forward to,” Ross says, outfitted with …
Read More »Michael Gandolfini Joins the Family Business
F or most of us, Take Your Kid to Work day meant being parked at an empty desk in Dad’s office for a few hours, maybe with a snack from the vending machine. For Michael Gandolfini, it was a trip to Silvercup Studios in Queens, home base of The Sopranos. …
Read More »No More Non-Apologies
Whether you find yourself the victim of some questionable, unearthed tweets or on the wrong side of a cultural debate, an Apple Notes apology is always at the ready for Instagram. By now no one really takes those sorry beg-pardons seriously, but it shows that the cancel-wary celeb is at …
Read More »The Abundant Heart and Revolutionary Vision of Young Thug
Y oung Thug stands swaddled in a blue Versace bathrobe. We’re inside a lounge on the fifth floor of a luxurious building in downtown Atlanta, where the team of realtors that just sold Thug a house have presented him with the lavish garment as a gesture of gratitude. Buying property …
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