FKA Twigs is a sword-wielding dancer in the music video for her Central Cee-assisted collaboration “Measure of a Man,” pulled from the soundtrack to 20th Century Studio’s upcoming film The King’s Man out Dec. 22. The Diana Kunst-directed video opens on a table of viewers watching a projector screen where …
Read More »From 'Mother God' to Mummified Corpse: Inside the Fringe Spiritual Sect 'Love Has Won'
God is dead. Or, at least, she has shed her physical vessel, ascending from this life to a higher plane of existence, one of pure love and enlightenment. So say the followers of Love Has Won, who believe that God is a 45-year-old woman. On April 28, 2021, Miguel Lamboy …
Read More »Michael Jackson Impersonator Charged With Storming Capitol Alongside Oath Keepers
When a line of Oath Keepers stormed the Capitol in a “stack formation” on Jan. 6, a Broadway actor and Michael Jackson impersonator was among them, prosecutors alleged on Tuesday. James Delisco Beeks breached the Capitol building during the insurrection with members of the militia group, according to a statement …
Read More »Malikah Shabazz, Daughter of Malcolm X, Dead at 56
Malikah Shabazz, the daughter of the late civil rights leader Malcolm X, was found dead in her Brooklyn home on Monday, NBC 4 New York reports. She was 56. Police officials said she was found unconscious and unresponsive by her daughter. Per the station, a medical examiner responded to the …
Read More »Guitars Played by U2's the Edge, David Gilmour, Amy Winehouse Sell Big at Auction
Guitars owned by U2’s the Edge, Eddie Van Halen, Elvis Presley and Eric Clapton were among the highest-bid items at a rock-themed auction that raked in over $5 million this weekend. Julien’s Auctions’ Icons & Idols: Rock N’ Roll event also featured David Gilmour’s stage-used guitar from Pink Floyd’s Momentarily …
Read More »Is Biden Running in 2024? He's Telling Allies That's the Plan
President Joe Biden is telling his aides and allies that he intends to run for re-election in 2024, The Washington Post reported Saturday. “The only thing I’ve heard him say is he’s planning on running again,” former senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), who is friends with Biden, told The Post. “And …
Read More »Kyle Rittenhouse, Who Killed Two People, Acquitted of Homicide Charges
Kyle Rittenhouse has been acquitted of all charges. The jury in the high-profile trial found the teenager was acting in self-defense during a pair of deadly encounters last summer in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse, 18, had been charged with five counts including reckless homicide, intentional homicide, and attempted intentional homicide. He …
Read More »Closing Arguments in Charlottesville Trial Included 'White Lives Matter' Video, Conspiracy Theories
On Thursday, lawyers and defendants presented closing arguments in the federal civil trial for white nationalists and Neo-Nazis who organized the deadly August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Ostensibly planned in protest of the scheduled removal of a Robert E. Lee statue from a public park, the rally …
Read More »Taylor Swift Ushers in Sad Girl Autumn With (Another) New Version of 'All Too Well'
Taylor Swift is adeptly ushering in Sad Girl Autumn with a new version of “All Too Well.” She recorded the rendition with her “besties” Aaron Dessner of the National and Jonathan Low. “One of the saddest songs I’ve ever written just got sadder,” Swift posted on Twitter, and it isn’t …
Read More »L.A. Deputies Tased an Unwell Man and Shot Him with Rubber Bullets. Now He's Suing Their Boss
Sheriff Alex Villanueva — the lightning-rod Los Angeles County lawman — has “created an atmosphere” within the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department in which “the violation of civil rights is not only approved by the department, but encouraged.” That’s the stunning allegation at the heart of a new lawsuit against the …
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