A woman stands on a train platform, her unsmiling face framed against the sky by the open door of a rail car. In an up-close shot of a plated burger, a hand reaches for a french fry, only to be gently slapped away. A man in a woodworking apron holds …
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This story is being published in partnership with Popular Information, an award-winning independent newsletter focused on money and politics. Sign up to receive its biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On June 24, the day the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Republican Attorneys General Association reached out …
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In 2014, after a mass shooting in California, The Onion ran a story headlined “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.” I think of that headline after every mass shooting, including today’s horrifying one at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Every country has murderous …
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Janelle Monáe is set to star as pioneering entertainer Josephine Baker in an upcoming series that focuses on the singer’s turn as a French Resistance spy for the Allies during World War 2. A24 andMonáe’s production house Wondaland will produce De La Resistance, with Deadline reporting that multiple streaming services …
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L. remembers exactly what her son was wearing one winter evening nine years ago. She can still see every detail: the blue Angry Birds T-shirt, the black Bakugan hoodie unzipped down the front, the jeans that had once been bedazzled and that still faintly bore the heart-shaped pattern where the …
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For most of her acting career, Pamela Adlon was best known for her voice, even though she rarely felt like she had one of her own. Adlon, née Segall, entered the family business as a teenager — her father Don Segall was a sitcom writer — mostly shuffling around in …
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Rapper Drakeo the Ruler was killed in Los Angeles late Saturday night after he was stabbed during an altercation near the Banc of California Stadium in Exposition Park, during the Once Upon a Time in L.A. concert where Drakeo and dozens of performers, including Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent, were …
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Nearly 40 years ago, Abba were in the studio for one last time, to cut a tragic ballad called “The Day Before You Came.” They knew this was goodbye; both couples in the group had finalized their divorces. Agnetha Fältskog recited a bleak tale of total emotional isolation, words scripted …
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When Summer Walker‘s new album, Still Over It, comes out on Friday, commercial expectations will be high. The R&B singer erupted in 2019 with singles that channeled Nineties classics, especially the Top 20 hit “Playing Games” — which built on the unimpeachable foundation of Destiny’s Child’s “Say My Name” — …
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Eric Church performed a pair of solo concerts this weekend in Pennsylvania after members of his band tested positive for Covid-19. The country singer Cam joined him onstage in Pittsburgh on Friday night and surprised fans again on Saturday in Philadelphia. Morgan Wallen was a special guest at Church’s Philly …
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