America’s infamously gaffe-prone former vice president, Joe Biden, signaled he is likely running for president in 2020 in the most characteristically Biden-esque way. He accidentally announced he was running before quickly correcting himself at a dinner in Dover, Delaware on Saturday night. “I know I get criticized. I’m told I …
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Mötley Crüe have unveiled their metal rendition of Madonna‘s “Like a Virgin,” an unlikely cover choice and one of a handful of new recordings the reunited hair metal band made for the Netflix biopic The Dirt. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Nikki Sixx explained how the Madonna cover …
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Well, that was fast: two Stanford University students are filing a class-action lawsuit against Yale, the University of Southern California, UCLA, and a number of other colleges and universities involved in the college admissions scandal. According to the lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District …
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Whatever it takes to keep a techno hellraiser on its feet, The Hummingbird Project doesn’t have it. Just don’t blame the film’s two lead actors. Jesse Eisenberg surges with all the manic energy he showed in The Social Network, playing Vincent Zaleski, the hustler behind an idea to run fiber-optic …
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Amid the myriad of discounts that music-streaming services offer to entice new users (one month free! six months free!), Spotify‘s decision in 2017 to team up with video-streaming service Hulu to deliver bundled student subscriptions was unusual because it was one of the first times that two disparate entertainment services …
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When Americana duo Over the Rhine recorded their first batch of songs in March 1989, members Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist were just two aspiring songwriters, eager to bounce ideas off each other and tell their stories to whomever would listen. Thirty years later, Detweiler and Bergquist are an enduring …
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Welcome to the Trailers of the Week: Holy Crap They Finally Dropped the Official Game of Thrones Trailer! edition. Yes, HBO revealed the first clips of the show’s last season, and it’s a destruction-filled doozy. We also got looks at the long-suppressed Aretha Franklin concert movie finally hitting theaters, a …
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Ringo Starr, James Taylor and more helped Joe Walsh raise and disburse $795,000 in grants at his 2nd annual VetsAid music festival, held last November on Veterans Day. The show will return for its third year, November 10th in Houston, Texas. A video recap of last year’s event boasts performance …
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Julianne Moore lights up the screen in a remake of Chilean director Sebastián Lelio’s 2013 Gloria, in which Paulina García played a fiftyish divorcée trying to negotiate the Santiago singles scene. Hollywood retreads of foreign films are rarely a good idea (did you see Miss Bala?), but Gloria Bell is …
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Taylor Swift outlines her hopes for the 2020 election — and appears to blast President Trump — in a new Elle piece. Addressing her recent shift toward political candor, the singer-songwriter writes, “Invoking racism and provoking fear through thinly veiled messaging is not what I want from our leaders, and …
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