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 …
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Trevor Noah showcased President Donald Trump‘s attempts to troll 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg on The Daily Show Thursday. After Thunberg was named Time‘s Person of the Year — a title Trump has always coveted — he tweeted out, “So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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Deval Patrick, former governor of Massachusetts and newly-resigned executive of Mitt Romney’s private equity firm Bain Capital, has entered the Democratic primary race, which is shaping up to be the biggest ensemble-disaster comedy since Cannonball Run. Patrick’s entry comes after news that former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg put himself …
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Taylor Swift‘s “Lover” has gotten a sweet remix thanks to Shawn Mendes, who helped turn the ballad into a duet. Swift released her seventh album, also titled Lover, in August. Mendes adds some verses to the romantic tune, crooning, “We can light a bunch of candles and dance around the …
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Last month, Joe Walsh wrapped up the Eagles‘ sold-out residency in Las Vegas, where the band performed Hotel California in its entirety — followed by a 23-song bonus set of greatest hits — with help from a 46-piece orchestra and 22-member chorus. Preparing for those shows was a mammoth undertaking, …
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Billy Idol didn’t just nail the look of London punk rock — he was there at the very beginning, attending the Sex Pistols’ early gigs shortly before starting his own band, Generation X. From there, he made the wildly prescient choice to add synths and dance beats (inspired by Suicide …
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Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump’s acting chief of staff, said the quiet part out loud last week regarding the administration’s dealings with Ukraine. “We do that all the time with foreign policy,” he told reporters after one pointed out he’d just admitted to a quid pro quo when he explained …
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