On Tuesday, most of Andy Fales’ friends at work were laid off. Fales holds down one-half of “Murph and Andy,” a sports talk radio show that airs every afternoon on Des Moines, Iowa’s KXNO. That morning, Fales rolled into work, like numerous iHeartMedia employees around the country, only to find …
Read More »Beastie Boys' Spike Jonze-Directed 'Live Documentary' to Stream on Apple TV+
Mike D and Ad-Rock will bring their immersive, Spike Jonze-directed Beastie Boys Story stage show to the big and small screen in April, with Apple TV+ securing the streaming rights to the live documentary. Beastie Boys Story, streaming globally April 24th following its limited engagement IMAX run on April 3rd, …
Read More »Marcus King's True Blues
Six years ago, Marcus King felt lost. A long-haired, pot-smoking kid going to school in the small town of Piedmont, South Carolina, he struggled to fit in — he hated sports and missed enough classes to nearly be expelled for truancy. “I have nothing good to say about Piedmont, no …
Read More »Who's Allowed to Use Airbnb?
In February 2016, Ramona Flour, a sex worker, traveled to New York City to spend a weekend with her partner. Like so many visitors to New York, she spent most of her time sightseeing, and an Instagram from her trip shows her mugging with a dinosaur at the American Museum …
Read More »So, How Was Your Decade, Richard Marx?
So, How Was Your Decade is a series in which the decade’s most innovative musicians answer our questionnaire about the music, culture, and memorable moments that shaped their decade. Check out all the artists who participated in the series. Richard Marx began the 2010s with a major milestone: A song …
Read More »Eddie Gallagher 'Is Freaking Evil' Says Fellow Navy SEAL in Damning Leaked Videos
“The guy is freaking evil,” Special Operator First Class Craig Miller said of his platoon Chief Edward Gallagher in video recordings obtained by The New York Times. “You could tell he was perfectly OK with killing anybody that was moving,” Special Operator First Class Corey Scott told Naval Criminal Investigative …
Read More »Watch Lizzo Deliver 'Truth Hurts' and 'Good as Hell' in 'SNL' Debut
Following a breakout year where she scored eight Grammy nominations, Lizzo made an energetic Saturday Night Live debut last night at Studio 8H. At the start of her first song “Truth Hurts” — a three-year-old sleeper hit that became a bonus track on her 2019 album Cuz I Love You …
Read More »'Fire on the Mountain': See Photos From the Grateful Dead-Approved Action Sports Movie
A new film,Fire on the Mountain, combines the excitement of action sports with the classic tunes of the Grateful Dead. Directed by Chris Benchetler and Tyler Hamlet and narrated by former basketball star and television sportscaster Bill Walton, it features pro surfer Rob Machado; snowboarders Jeremy Jones, Danny Davis and …
Read More »Blocking the Ballot in a Time of Impeachment
House Democrats on Tuesday listed the two main reasons why they want to impeach President Trump. The primary one was because he engaged in a form of voter suppression, though foreign election interference isn’t commonly understood as such. When the president leans on a less powerful counterpart, from Ukraine or …
Read More »Nikki Haley Says Dylann Roof 'Hijacked' the Confederate Flag, Which Stood for 'Service, Sacrifice, and Heritage'
Who needs history when you can just make shit up? On Friday, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, spoke to Blaze TV’s Glenn Beck where she said that “people saw” the Confederate flag “as service, and sacrifice, and heritage” before white supremacist Dylann …
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