Were it not for Michael Jackson, it’s quite possible that “Weird Al” Yankovic would have gone down in history as the oddball that sang “Another One Rides the Bus” on The Tom Snyder Show and then faded into complete obscurity. It was his 1984 Jackson parody “Eat It” that introduced …
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Former President Jimmy Carter weighed in on the controversy surrounding the Georgia gubernatorial race, calling for Republican nominee Brian Kemp — who oversees elections as Georgia’s secretary of state — to resign from his position. “I have officially observed scores of doubtful elections in many countries, and one of the …
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University of Utah police have released a timeline and additional details about the murder of student of Lauren McCluskey, who was killed on October 22nd by a man she dated for a month, Melvin Rowland, who took his own life before he could be apprehended. McCluskey broke off the relationship …
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The confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court has capped the most brutal partisan judicial campaign in American history. For 40 years, movement conservatives plotted tirelessly and spent untold millions to install a solid hard-right majority on the court. Checked by the four appointments made by Bill Clinton and …
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A week after Kanye West hijacked Saturday Night Live and held the cast “hostage” by delivering a pro-Trump rant during his show-ending musical performance, Pete Davidson appeared on Weekend Update to slam the rapper. “What Kanye said after we went off the air last week was one of the worst, …
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“There’ve been photo books on jazz; there’ve been countless photo books on rock and roll, on the Rolling Stones, on Bruce Springsteen. Think about it, all those books that have been done. And there has never been a photo book done on R&B or soul or funk music. I’m the …
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On Wednesday’s Late Show, a horrified Stephen Colbert attempted to process Stormy Daniels‘ detailed, meme-generatingdescription of President Trump’s genitals from her upcoming book, Full Disclosure. He failed. “Since I’ve started hosting this show, I’ve had to cover some rather unfortunate topics – for example, everything all the time,” the host …
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The Tonight Show abruptly canceled Norm Macdonald’s appearance Tuesday night following remarks the comedian made regarding the #MeToo movement in an interview. “Out of sensitivity to our audience and in light ofNorm Macdonald’s comments in the press today, TheTonightShowhas decided to cancel his appearanceon Tuesday’stelecast,” NBC said in a statement, …
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Last April, Steven Tyler took a brief respite from his solo tour to cut a track at the historic Florence Alabama Music Enterprises (FAME) Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.For a new compilation calledMuscle Shoals…Small Town, Big Sound,Tyler put his own bedraggled spin on one of the studio’s most famous exports: …
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Long before his famous gigs as a fashion model, museum guard and cartoon lion, high-school-aged Ben Stiller was the drummer for short-lived New York noise band Capital Punishment. A mix of industrial art-collage, synth-tweaked post-punk and teenage kicks, the band quietly released one record, played zero shows under their name …
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