A review of this week’s Ted Lasso, “No Weddings and a Funeral,” coming up just as soon as I fat-shame a baby to tears… The title of “No Weddings and a Funeral” is, of course, a nod to Richard Curtis’ breakthrough movie as a writer of rom-coms, Four Weddings and …
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T hey were two different people, Jenae and Mercedes; on that everyone could agree. Mercedes was outgoing, bubbly, the life of the party. She’d jump on a table and karaoke to Ginuwine’s “Stingy” on Instagram Live, or don a sombrero and pretend to eat a giant papier-mache taco for a …
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G Herbo remembers how the friend who gave him his MC name was also the same one who encouraged him to rap for a crowd in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s The First Time. The Chicago MC credited an older, well-respected guy from his neighborhood with christening him “G …
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While Sierra Ferrell was performing on the Doc Watson Stage this past weekend at MerleFest, the singer-songwriter gazed out beyond the crowd and she was struck by a memory. “When I first came here six years ago, I was homeless and eating out of the trash. And there’s a lot …
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Dave Grohl will regale audiences with rock & roll tales from his new memoir, The Storyteller, at a series of upcoming live events. The first of the five shows will take place September 27th in London, with the next four happening in the United States: October 5th in New York …
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The Pentagon acknowledged Friday that a drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, had not hit a military target but instead had killed civilians — including up to seven children and a longtime worker for a U.S. aid group. The acknowledgement contradicts earlier assertions that the strike was a successful effort to …
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President Biden had harsh words for Republican governors who are fighting Covid-19 vaccine mandates in the midst of the pandemic. “We’re facing a lot of pushback, especially from some of the Republican governors,” Biden said in a speech delivered from the White House on Thursday. “The governors of Florida and …
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Norm Macdonald always had a way of making mundane, everyday things — the habits of a moth, Germans’ inexplicable love of David Hasselhoff, crime in New York City — absolutely hilarious. Unlike other comics, he wasn’t prone to exaggeration or absurdity; he simply presented the world as he saw it, …
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If you want a vision of our nation’s future, you can find it in the mace-soaked streets of Portland, Oregon. The City of Roses put it all on display on a recent Sunday in August, when the Proud Boys, an extremist group whose purpose, according to their founder, is to …
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A week after Kanye West set a new high-water mark for the biggest album debut of 2021 on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart with Donda, Drake obliterated that record with Certified Lover Boy. West launched with 313,000 album-equivalent units. Drake earned close to double that total, more than …
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