Please, not another teen coming-of-age movie! That was your first thought, right? Hold your contempt. Booksmart changes the game and opens the genre up to greater possibilities. Directed by the actor Olivia Wilde in a smashing feature debut, this femcentric spin on Freaks and Geeks is high on girl power. …
Read More »Watch Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber Have a Trippy Good Time in 'I Don't Care' Video
Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber have finally released the music video for their collaborative single “I Don’t Care,” and it’s one of the strangest clips from either artist’s career. Related: Howard Stern on Why Ed Sheeran Is One of His Favorite New Artists As with any major music video release …
Read More »How the Mental Health Community Is Bracing for the Impact of Climate Change
When San Francisco broke heat records in 2017, with 106-degree temperatures in September, psychiatrist Robin Cooper didn’t hear until after the fact that one of her patients had been feeling dizzy and feverish. One day, he’d fainted in his poorly ventilated workspace. Emergency room doctors had surmised he’d had a …
Read More »Royalty Helped Make Donald Glover a Superstar. Their Next Plans Are Bigger.
Childish Gambino is about to die. It’s still unclear what, exactly, that means. The next Childish Gambino album, which has been repeatedly teased as the project’s last gasp, could simply be the death of a moniker; it could mean the end of Donald Glover’s music career entirely. Fam Udeorji, Gambino’s …
Read More »Flashback: Johnny Cash, June Carter Sing Pete Seeger's 'If I Had a Hammer'
Festivities are planned throughout this weekend in celebration of the 100th birthday of folk-music pioneer Pete Seeger. Born May 3rd, 1919, in Manhattan, Seeger’s songwriting and political activism would for decades go hand-in-hand, leading to the folk revival of the late Fifties and early Sixties, which were bolstered by such …
Read More »Poll: Mueller Report Sinks Trump's Approval Rating To New 2019 Low
President Donald Trump’s approval rating has taken a hit since the redacted Mueller report was released to the public on Thursday morning. According to a new poll by Reuters/Ipsos, Trump’s approval rating now stands at 37 percent, a 2019 low. The poll, which saw a three point dropfrom a similar …
Read More »Flashback: The Who Stage a Rocky Reunion at Live Aid
In less than a month, the Who will kick off their Moving On! tour at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where they will be joined every night by a local symphony orchestra. This may come as a surprise to some since they said that their 2014 Who …
Read More »Trump Campaign Video Pulled for Unauthorized Use of 'Dark Knight Rises' Score
Warner Bros. Pictures triggered the removal of a campaign video President Donald Trump posted on Twitter due to its unauthorized use of the score from The Dark Knight Rises. The 2020 campaign video reportedly originated on the pro-Trump sub-Reddit last week before Trump posted it to his own Twitter feed …
Read More »Robert Kraft 'Truly Sorry' in First Statement Since Solicitation Charge
Days after Robert Kraft reportedly rejected a plea deal stemming from his charges of soliciting prostitution, the New England Patriots’ billionaire owner issued his first statement related to the charges Saturday. “In deference to the judicial process, I have remained silent these past several weeks,” Kraft said. “To correct some …
Read More »Watch Old Rivals Duel in New 'Deadwood' Movie Trailer
The gunslingers of Deadwood battle each other and the encroaching inevitability of modernity in the new teaser for the upcoming film sequel to the hit Western, set to premiere May 31st on HBO. The Deadwood movie will be set 10 years after the series wrapped, with the characters reuniting to …
Read More »