President Joe Biden said former president Donald Trump should not receive intelligence briefings due to his “erratic behavior.” Biden answered, “I think not,” when asked by CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell if Trump should receive the sensitive briefings. Biden went on to say that he didn’t see an upside …
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GLAAD has announced the full list of nominees for the 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards. The organization announced 198 nominees in 28 categories, including two new categories: Outstanding Children’s Programming and Outstanding Breakthrough Music Artist. “During an unprecedented year of crises and isolation, the nominees for the 32nd Annual GLAAD …
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Amanda Gorman, the first National Youth Poet Laureate who spoke at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, will recite an original piece ahead of Super Bowl LV, February 7th, The Associated Press reports. Gorman’s poem will be dedicated to the three “honorary captains” the NFL has selected to honor before the big …
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Dating back at least to 1977, when Aretha Franklin, Paul Simon, and Linda Ronstadt performed during Jimmy Carter’s first day on the job — and all the way up to Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez at Joe Biden’s swearing-in ceremony — it hasn’t been unusual for rock and pop stars …
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Willie Nelson will serve as the keynote speaker at the SXSW Online conference, set for March 16th to the 20th. For the second straight year, the annual South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, won’t take place due to the coronavirus. In its absence, organizers have instead shifted to a …
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FX has orderedPistol, a six-episode limited series on the legendary Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones. The show will be directed and executive produced by filmmaker Danny Boyle (Trainspotting,Slumdog Millionaire,Yesterday). Based on Jones’ 2018 memoirLonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, the series will star Toby Wallace as Steve Jones, Anson …
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There are so many great Gilligan’s Island episodes that picking the best one is almost impossible. There’s the one where a mad scientist on a nearby island switches all the characters’ brains around (“The Friendly Physician”), the one where Gilligan’s exact double comes onto the island (“Gilligan vs. Gilligan”), the …
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It’s been 11 years since Kid Cudi released his debut album Man on the Moon: The End of Day, a five-part dream sequence that cast his battle with mental illness in heroic terms. Cudi played the everyman night owl, awash in a cocktail of blunts, beer, and mushrooms. Ironically, his …
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A new documentary about System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian, Truth to Power, will examine the role the singer played in the 2018 Armenian Revolution and his history of activism. The film will come out via Oscilloscope Laboratories on February 19th. The doc features exclusive interviews with Tankian and …
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In the latest socially distanced episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by friend-of-the-show journalist and historian Thomas Frank. For this week’s Democrats Suck, Katie takes issue with Democrats “punching left,” citing a leaked conference call among House Democrats where some Dems reportedly blamed the poor …
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