Hollywood talent manager and Atomic Blonde producer David Guillod is heading to trial over allegations he sexually assaulted Ted actress Jessica Barth when she was intoxicated and unconscious following a dinner meeting in May 2012, a judge ruled Monday. But in a mixed decision legal experts called “unusual,” the judge …
Read More »Guns, Rhymes, God, and Politics: Shyne's Epic Fall and Rise
At an empty beach bar in Corozal, a shaggy town of a few thousand people just minutes from where northern Belize meets Mexico’s share of the Yucatan Peninsula, waves crash into a jagged, rocky breakwater. It’s 9 p.m., the kitchenis about to close, and the only people left are some …
Read More »Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Confirms She's Engaged to Longtime Boyfriend
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is putting the unconfirmed reports about her love life to rest. While speaking toInsider, the New York politician confirmed that she and her longtime partner, Riley Roberts, are engaged. “Yep! It’s true,” Ocasio-Cortez told the outlet. She latershared on Twitter, “It’s true! Thank you all for the well …
Read More »Neil Patrick Harris Sorry for Serving Platter of Amy Winehouse's Corpse Months After Death
Neil Patrick Harris apologized for once serving a meat platter designed to look like Amy Winehouse‘s decaying corpse after a photo of the spread resurfaced online. Harris and his husband David Burtka had offered up the platter at Halloween party in 2011, three months after Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning …
Read More »Kevin Morby Travels to Memphis and Has a Metaphysical Reawakening on 'This Is a Photograph'
There’s something strange about Memphis. Nestled along the muddy waters of the Mississippi River, the city lies shrouded in an aura of perpetual gloom, its skyline dominated by a mammoth, metal-clad pyramid filled not with treasures, but a Bass Pro Shop superstore. Unable to escape its murky past — yellow …
Read More »A MAGA Rapper Who Painted His Lawn for Trump Won a Republican Primary for Congress
Donald Trump was in Delaware, Ohio, late last month for a rally to promote his preferred candidates in the Buckeye State — most notably J.D. Vance, who on Tuesday night won the Republican Party’s nomination for U.S. Senate. Trump strayed from his prepared remarks at several points during his speech, …
Read More »Daniel Radcliffe Stars as Weird Al Yankovic in Roku's 'Weird' — And Yeah, It's Weird
Daniel Radcliffe in a Party City wig takes on the role of Weird Al Yankovic in Roku‘s upcoming film, Weird. On Tuesday, the streaming-service-turned-movie-channel released a teaser trailer for the silly biopic set to follow the life and career of the parody musician. “I hope you guys are ready for …
Read More »Machine Gun Kelly Blames Fake News for Failing to Answer Battery Lawsuit
UPDATE (3/22/2022): Machine Gun Kelly is blaming his fame and “false” news reports for his failure to answer a battery lawsuit filed against him by a Los Angeles parking lot attendant. In a new filing obtained by Rolling Stone, the musician whose legal name is Colson Baker is asking a …
Read More »Hear Mavis Staples and Levon Helm's Final Performance Together
In the summer of 2011, Mavis Staples and her band arrived at Levon Helm‘s barn and studio in Woodstock, New York, to perform at one of Helm’s trademark Midnight Ramble shows. The resulting show, dropping May 20 with the title Carry Me Home, was a moving reunion of two American …
Read More »Arizona Governor Says He'd Rather Have a White Nationalist in State Legislature than a Democrat
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey was questioned Thursday about his efforts to get Wendy Rogers elected to the state senate in 2020, and whether he has any regrets in light of how Rogers has been promoting white nationalist causes. Arizona Mirror reporter Jeremy Duda asked the Republican governor his thoughts on …
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