Samantha Bee addressed the controversy surrounding her “feckless cunt” remark about Ivanka Trump during the Full Frontal host’s speech at the Television Academy Honors Thursday night. Earlier in the day, Bee apologized for the insult, which occurred during a segment about the migrant crisis at the U.S. border. “I would …
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Yesterday, after Roseanne Barr tweeted a racist statement about former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett, comparing her to an ape, ABC cancelled the comedian’s newly rebooted sitcom, Roseanne. In the wake of that announcement, many took to social media to preemptively scold those on the Right who might criticize the network’s …
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Over the past decade, marijuana legalization has happened at break-neck speed at the state and local level. And yet, pot-related reforms have moved glacially at the federal level, especially since prohibitionist Jeff Sessions was confirmed as attorney general. But his staunch opposition and attempt to roll back Obama-era protections for …
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Don’t touch the suit – anything but the suit! It was the fall of 1966, and Ken Kesey decided the time had come to spruce up Furthur, the refurbished, multicolored school bus that he and his Merry Pranksters had been using for their famed road trips. In the barn at …
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Rose McGowan took to social media to express her thoughts on the news that Harvey Weinstein is expected to turn himself in to authorities in New York on Friday. Weinstein’s impending arrest follows an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against him. “I, and so many of Harvey Weinstein‘s survivors, had …
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Christina Aguilera and Demi Lovato rally against oppressive forces – physically and thematically – in the new“Fall in Line” video. The clip opens with the two singers as young children rolling playfully in a field as menacing, masked agents approach and apprehend them. As adults, Aguilera and Lovato are forced …
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The producer Steve Aoki has fond memories of his first meeting with the seven-man K-pop ensemble BTS. “We got a big old Bluetooth boombox, huddled around it and just jammed,” Aoki recalls. “The last time I saw them in L.A., I gave [the rapper] RM my hoodie; he gave me …
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The season finale of Saturday Night Live borrowed from another classic series finale as Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump and his Mueller investigation legal team reunite at a diner in a cold open sketch that reimagined the famed closing scene from The Sopranos. Trump sits in the booth of a New …
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Something happened when the Rolling Stones played “Miss You” at Dublin’s Croke Park on Thursday night. At most Stones concerts, the song seems skippable – a must-play staple that winds up feeling like a slog. But last night, the disco hit seemed to inspire everyone. It happened shortly into the …
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Time Flies is probably something of an understatement for Jim Lauderdale. Having cut an average of an album a year for more than three decades, the two-time Grammy winner could be forgiven for losing track of his own output. This summer, he’ll be releasing two more LPs: one of which …
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