For the first time in its long history, New York City is silent. Fear is palpable in the air. You see it in the eyes of the workers in the grocery store, the pharmacy, and the corner deli. These are almost all people of color. They tell you they are …
Read More »'RS Interview: Special Edition' With Roger Waters
Who better to speak to at the moment than Roger Waters, who wrote about living in “perfect isolation/here behind my wall” back in 1979? The Pink Floyd co-founder and stadium-filling solo artist, who had to postpone his This Is Not a Drill Tour — which was supposed to kick off …
Read More »Virtual Sex Parties Offer Escape from Isolation — If Organizers Can Find a Home
Last Saturday night, I spent three hours in a video conferencing session with 45 strangers, watching a man in a sailor hat enthusiastically eating ass. In another corner, a bearded man in a tastefully minimalist studio apartment ties up a slim dark-haired woman with Shibari rope, her breasts bulging between …
Read More »In the Horror Story, We Always Die First
George Romero’s 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead is one of the few films of its kind that not only doesn’t kill the token black character first, but makes him the protagonist. Still, after surviving the flesh-eating undead for nearly two hours, the hero dies at the end. I …
Read More »Social Distancing With Warren Haynes: Canceled Shows, New Songs, and Bill Withers
As the world fights a pandemic, we reached out to some of our favorite artists with a few quarantine questions about these unprecedented times. Warren Haynes played at one of the last major arena shows before the lockdown – the “Brothers” tribute to the Allman Brothers Band on March 10 …
Read More »Halsey Donates 100,000 Masks to L.A. Hospitals Fighting COVID-19
Halsey has donated 100,000 masks to various hospitals in Los Angeles that are treating patients with COVID-19. The singer wrote in Instagram: “Every single day I am in awe of the medical workers on the frontlines. Their determination, selflessness and empathy is the single greatest example of our capacity to …
Read More »Phoebe Waller-Bridge Revives 'Fleabag Live' for COVID-19 Charity
Phoebe Waller-Bridge has made the stage version of her hit television seriesFleabag available for streaming in order to raise funds for several UK-based charities that are combatting the COVID-19 pandemic. Recorded at Wyndham’s Theatre and first broadcast in theaters for a special live event in September 2019,Fleabag Live will first …
Read More »As Trump Labels Coronavirus Relief Fund Oversight a 'Witch Hunt,' Republicans Pursue Biden Investigation
President Donald Trump railed against upcoming congressional oversight his administration will face after Democratic leaders announced the creation of a new select committee that will oversee how the $2.2 trillion economic coronavirus aid package will be divvied out. On Thursday, the president used the White House press briefing on the …
Read More »With Fauci Conspiracy Theories Swirling from Trump Supporters, the Doctor Predicts Up to 200K U.S. Deaths
The nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said hundreds of thousands of Americans will likely die of coronavirus. The doctor made the ominous prediction during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. After host Jake Tapper asked how many COVID-19 cases the U.S. will see, …
Read More »'My Friends Can't Get Their Nails Done,' Fox News Host Laments While Acknowledging 'People Are Dying' From COVID-19
On the day the federal government reported that a record-breaking 3.3 million Americans had filed for unemployment and as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases grew to the tens of thousands, Fox & Friends host Ainsley Earhardt bravely gave voice to the real victims of this crisis: consumers who can …
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