H arry Styles isn’t exactly dressed down for lunch. He’s got a white floppy hat that Diana Ross might have won from Elton in a poker game at Cher’s mansion circa 1974, plus Gucci shades, a cashmere sweater, and blue denim bell-bottoms. His nail polish is pink and mint green. …
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& ldquo;Hey, Billie?” says Billie Eilish’s mom, standing in the kitchen of their Los Angeles home. “Are you going to clean your room?” “Yeah,” says Eilish, 17, stretching her reply into two no-duh syllables. Even from the couch, her eye roll is audible. Her mom turns to me. “Can she …
Read More »How a Small-Town Bakery in Ohio Became a Lightning Rod in the Culture Wars
Gibson’s Bakery is a small, family-owned business in Oberlin, Ohio, a college town about 35 miles outside of Cleveland. In addition to selling sundry items and household goods, it sells cookies, rolls, and glazed doughnuts. Although Ohio’s liquor laws preclude it from selling hard alcohol, Gibson’s also has a small …
Read More »The Harm Done For White Men
Part of President Trump’s new immigration proposal is something called “patriotic assimilation.” It’s a euphemism for an immigrant entry exam that evokes the Jim Crow literacy tests used to disenfranchise black voters. One administration official told the Washington Post that green-card applicants would be required to pass an exam based …
Read More »Mick Jagger: Heart Surgery Postponed Rolling Stones Tour
Mick Jagger will undergo surgery to replace a valve in his heart, Rolling Stone confirmed. As a result of the procedure and recovery period, the Rolling Stones postponed the North American leg of their No Filter tour, which ran from April 20th to July 29th. When the postponement was initially …
Read More »Trump Partied With Founder of Massage Parlor from Robert Kraft Case
If you’ve reached the highest office in the United States, it should be taken for granted that you will exercise the proper amount of judgment to avoid taking selfies with founders of Floridian rub-and-tug parlors. And yet, if there is anything we have learned over the past two years, it’s …
Read More »Peter Tork: A Lost Tell-All Interview on His Sixties Glory Years
If the Monkees were supposed to be uncool, someone forgot to tell Jimi Hendrix, the Who, half the Beatles, Mama Cass and the future members of Crosby, Stills and Nash — all of whom spent a good chunk of 1967 and 1968 hanging out with Peter Tork in Los Angeles. …
Read More »Grammys 2019: Childish Gambino, Kacey Musgraves Run the World
Childish Gambino and Kacey Musgraves took home the biggest prizes at the 2019 Grammy Awards, with the rapper winning both Song and Record of the Year for “This Is America” and the country musician taking home Album of the Year for Golden Hour. Both Musgraves and Childish Gambino notched four …
Read More »Kamala Harris Makes Her Case
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA — It was cloudy and brisk on Sunday morning, but it would have felt like a midsummer’s day to Kamala Harris had she been been walking around 16th and Telegraph Avenue. Beaming with radiant smiles and laughter, the multicolored crowd of thousands stretched around the corner of Telegraph …
Read More »Supreme Leader Donald Trump Lies About Volume of Fast Food Hamburgers
Imagine being invited to the White House for dinner. You pack your best suit or dress and fly up to Washington, D.C. The day of the dinner, the president announces to reporters that he will be serving you fast food. He seems really excited about it.“I think we’re going to …
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