Jimmy Kimmel joked about President Donald Trump‘s Twitter feud with Twitter after the social media site flagged one of his missives about voter fraud with a fact-check disclaimer. Trump sent out the tweet in question on Tuesday, claiming without any evidence that mail-in ballots — which are being touted as …
Read More »She Was Supposed to Be on Tour With Pearl Jam. Now, She Fears for Her Whole Industry
This is the 14th installment of Rolling Stone’sMusic in Crisisseries, which looks at how people all across the music industry are coping with thecoronavirus pandemic. For nearly 30 years, Karrie Keyes has been helping Pearl Jam sound great onstage. But instead of overseeing the band’s monitors all summer, the sound …
Read More »Why Older People Might Suffer Most, Post-Pandemic
Thanks to advancements in medicine, skin care, and elective cosmetic treatments, our picture of aging has changed radically over the past several decades. More people are dyeing their hair when it turns gray, and we now have a better understanding of the impact of exercise and nutrition on both physical …
Read More »'Scoob!' Review: Ruh-Roh, It's an Animated A-List, Franchise-Friendly Reboot!
It’s the newly shortened handle that gets you, right? “Scooby-Dooby? Pfft. That’s a child’s name. I’d like to be taken seriously now, thank you, so I prefer ‘Scoob.’ (‘Mr. Doo’ is my father’s name.)” Does the shortened title hint at a sort of darker, revisionist redo for the Mystery Inc. …
Read More »Trevor Noah Wonders if Anyone, Even President Trump, Knows What 'Obamagate' Is
Trevor Noah tried to get to the bottom of President Donald Trump‘s latest obsession, “Obamagate,” on The Daily Show Tuesday. In the days since the Justice Department unexpectedly dropped the charges against former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who pled guilty to lying to the FBI during the Mueller investigation, …
Read More »'The Last Dance' Week 4: Tragedy, Baseball, and the Cost of Being Jordan
In Episodes Seven and Eight of The Last Dance, there are tears. Michael Jordan cries over the shocking loss of his father in 1993. His friend Ahmad Rashad wells up at the memory of tying a trembling Jordan’s tie for him on the day of the funeral. Members of the …
Read More »Hear Sia's New Song 'Saved My Life,' Co-Written by Dua Lipa
Sia has released her new song “Saved My Life,” co-written by Sia, Dua Lipa and the track’s producer Greg Kurstin. The single arrived hours after Sia debuted “Saved My Life” during Americares’ COVID Is No Joke livestream fundraiser, which featured the singer – hidden behind a light fixture – performing …
Read More »What 'Bad Education' Got Right — and Wrong — About the Real-Life Scandal
The only thing better than a fictionalized version of a real-life scandal is one that prominently features Long Island accents, and HBO‘s Bad Educationticks all those boxes and more. Based on a mid-2000s scandal in Roslyn, a well-off suburb of New York City, the movie tells the story of Superintendent …
Read More »Fountains of Wayne's Chris Collingwood Remembers Adam Schlesinger, His Friend and Bandmate
Chris Collingwood met Adam Schlesinger in the mid-1980s, when they were both freshmen at Williams College. Over the next 25-plus years, they would be each other’s closest creative partners, forming the band Fountains of Wayne and recording five acclaimed albums of wise, witty music between 1996 and 2011. The work …
Read More »Senator Sherrod Brown Knows How to Save the Soul of the Democratic Party
Sherrod Brown has always defied easy categorization. A Yale graduate from a well-off family, he became a state representative in Ohio at the age of 21 and spent his free time in local union halls, absorbing the stories of auto and steelworkers. In the 1990s and 2000s, when Bill Clinton …
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