“Fuck Batman.” This is a thing Dick Grayson, a.k.a. Robin, declares midway through the first episode of Titans, the new live-action drama about the popular DC Comics team. “Fuck Batman,” he says, mere moments after dragging a defeated foe’s face along a row of broken glass to add injury to …
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When New York Times reporters David Barstow, Susanne Craig, and Russ Buettner published their exhaustive, gazillion-word expose on the Trump family tax practices last week, there was only one word for it. “Tax bombshell,” blared Yahoo! By my count, this was roughly the 4,790th“bombshell” of the Trump presidency, but one …
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The only Democrat who appears fully equipped at this point to vanquish Donald Trump in a presidential election made it perfectly clear late last month that she fully intends to do so. (And she got out ahead of Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who all-but-announced his own bid in Iowa this …
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To listen to many establishment Republicans, the rise of Trumpism is a perversion of the true GOP. But if the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh revealed one thing, it’s the shared interests of George W. Bush and Donald J. Trump. Kavanaugh is the bridge between Dubya and Trump. And he …
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In her opening monologue, first-time host Awkwafina noted how inspired she was by Lucy Liu hosting Saturday Night Live nearly two decades ago. It was a heartfelt moment, one undercut by a lackluster episode that no host could have salvaged. Look, it’s a miracle a live show like this doesn’t …
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Donny McCaslin’s career will forever be divided into two distinct eras: before Blackstar and after. David Bowie famously recruited the jazz saxophonist and his band after catching them at New York’s 55 Bar in 2014, and they would end up backing the icon throughout his final album. Though McCaslin already …
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Daredevil faces off against his old foe Kingpin and one of his most famous nemeses, Bullseye, in the new trailer for Season Three of the Netflix series. The show returns to the streaming service October 19th. The new season of Daredevilfinds Matt Murdock reemerging after a long absence, though he’s …
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Rod Stewart knew exactly what he didn’t want to do when he began penning songs for his new album,Blood Red Roses, which landed in stores on September 28th. “I didn’t want to write songs like ‘Stay With Me,’ ‘Hot Legs,’ and ‘Tonight’s the Night,’ ” he says. “I wanted to …
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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart unveiled a sleek cover of Tom Petty‘s “Runnin’ Down a Dream” that will appear on their upcoming full-album cover of Full Moon Fever, out October 26th via Turntable Kitchen’s Sounds Delicious subscription series. The track and album announcement arrive on the one year …
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News of Ticketmaster‘s alleged collusion with ticket scalpers— detailed in an investigative report in mid-September by CBC and theToronto Star — has sparked a development that perhaps was only a matter of time:a class-action lawsuit from fans. Law firm Hagens Berman filed a suit on Friday in California federal court …
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