General Motors announced on Monday that it will halt production at five North American plants and lay off 15 percent of its salaried and contract workforce. In total, nearly 15,000 people will lose their jobs as a result of the large-scale move to restructure operations.“The actions we are taking today …
Read More »Watch Kodak Black's Travis Scott-Directed 'Zeze' Video
Kodak Black has dropped the new video for his hit single “Zeze” featuring Travis Scott and Migos‘ Offset. Scott himself directed the visual, which offers a clever behind-the-scenes look at how music videos are made. After the pre-video request from Kodak Black’s label that the “Zeze” video include “no guns, …
Read More »From Book Reports to 'Buster': The Ballad of Tim Blake Nelson
Travel hither and yon and it’s probably only once in a great long while that you come across someone like Tim Blake Nelson. Frankly, he doesn’t look all that impressive. Ebbing hairline, a wide-open-plains-type forehead, blues that seem almost beady, a top right central incisor that stands disturbingly aloof of …
Read More »Massachusetts Mayor First In Line to Buy Legal Weed
The mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts was first in line to legally purchase marijuana at one of the town’s new dispensaries, CBS reports “I think there’s a lot going on here in trying to bring marijuana out of the shadows,” Mayor David Narkewicz said. Massachusetts voters legalized recreational marijuana in 2016, …
Read More »Trump's Anti-Abortion Refugee Program Chief Has Been Removed From His Post
Anti-abortion crusader Scott Lloyd has been removed from the top post at the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson confirms to Rolling Stone. Lloyd, who became infamous for blocking migrant teens in his custody from receiving abortions, is being transferred to HHS’s Center for …
Read More »See Steve Carell's Jeff Bezos Troll Trump With Amazon Expansion on 'SNL'
Steve Carell portrayed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in a Saturday Night Live sketch that trolled Donald Trump and the president’s long-standing beef with the e-commerce giant. Earlier in the week, Amazon announced plans to open two new headquarters in Long Island City, New York and northern Virginia. “Some folks have …
Read More »10 Best Country, Americana Songs of the Week: Kacey Musgraves, Greensky Bluegrass
A new song from Greensky Bluegrass, the title track of Kacey Musgraves‘ CMA award-winning Golden Hour and a dancehall-ready entry from Mike and the Moonpies make up the songs you must hear this week. Greensky Bluegrass, “All for Money” The title track from Greensky Bluegrass’ upcoming seventh album, All for …
Read More »Facebook Calls Damning Report About Its Response to Election Meddling 'Unfair'
The New York Times on Wednesday published a bombshell report about Facebook‘s war against its critics. It was pretty damning. According to the Times, Facebook knew in 2016 that Russia was using its platform to influence the election, did not take down inflammatory posts from Trump about banning Muslim immigrants …
Read More »'My Brilliant Friend' Review: Ferrante Adaptation Packs an Emotional Wallop
The title character of HBO‘s My Brilliant Friend is Lila Cerullo, a shoemaker’s daughter in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples in the Fifties. Defying all odds of both nature and nurture, she is a prodigy who masters whatever task she sets her mind to, usually without any …
Read More »America Isn't Ready for Asian Rappers. They're Taking Over Anyway
Nobody in the crowd at 88rising‘s early October show in New York City, an unapologetic riot on the brand-new open-air rooftop at Pier 17, is confused about where they are and what they’re doing there — except the security staff, who wander around most of the night in abject confusion. …
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