Comedy icon Bob Einstein — who died suddenly of cancer today — will be remembered for everything from his Super Dave Osborne character to his work on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Arrested Development, Anger Management and his two appearances on Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. But to …
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Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) announced Monday that she is forming a committee to explore the potential of a run for president in 2020. The news came through an early-morning email to supporters, and all but ensures Warren, 69, will join what promises to be a crowded field of Democrats looking …
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Goldman Sachs, which has survived and thrived despite countless scandals over the years, may have finally stepped in a pile of trouble too deep to escape. There’s even a Donald Trump angle to this latest great financial mess, but the outlines of that subplot – in a case that has …
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Before even opening a physical copy of Beastie Boys Book, you already know that Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz are great storytellers – it’s one of the qualities that makes their music great. So it’s no surprise that these nearly 600 pages are jam-packed with hilarious anecdotes about everything from …
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21 Savage is getting better. It’s right there, in in the title of his new album:i am > i was. The sentiment subsumes his verses and runs over his punchlines. Shayaa Bin Abraham-Joseph is wealthier, funnier and more famous than he’s ever been. If he’s not one of the best …
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The cast of Queer Eye help three high school students realize their big stage ambitions in the new video for the “Reimagined Remix” of The Greatest Showman hit, “This Is Me.” The Jared Hogan-directed clip centers around three kids, Tim, Olivia and J’Shawn, each with a different passion — to …
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Juelz Santana(real name: LaRon Louis James) was sentenced to 27 months in prison Wednesday morning, stemming from an incident at Newark Airport, NorthJersey.com reports. In March, the TSA found a loaded Derringer 38-caliber handgun and a “controlled dangerous substance” in the Dipset rapper’s carry-on bag. Santana, real name LaRon Louis …
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President Trump’s sham charity, the Trump Foundation, has agreed to dissolve as it contends with a lawsuit filed by the New York attorney general’s office earlier this year. The dissolution will take place under judicial supervision, and the attorney general will review and approve how its remaining assets are dispersed. …
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Back when people actually bought albums, Christmas releases were reliable money-makers for popular acts: cheap to put together, with demand baked in by the season. The limited repertoire — Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” aside, great, or even simply popular, original Christmas songs are a rarity …
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Pistol Annies returned to TV screens this week, taking the Late Night With Seth Meyers stage for a suitably celebratory and sassy performance of “Got My Name Changed Back,” the biting post-divorce track from the trio’s latest album Interstate Gospel. The occasion marked the trio’s return to NBC after last …
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