“You want a glass of Burgundy?” Pamela Adlon asks, encouragingly, as she sits down in a ritzy Beverly Hills restaurant. The multi-hyphenate force behind FX‘s Better Things then gestures to her full face of makeup, which has been professionally applied for a photo shoot: “By the way, this is not …
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President Donald Trump and EPA administrator Scott Pruitt may not want to talk about climate change right now, but judging from these storms, Mother Nature sure does. I began covering energy and climate change in 1990, shortly after George H. W. Bush was elected president and announced the fossil fuels …
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Bernie Sanders responded to Hillary Clinton‘s criticisms on Thursday’s Late Show, telling his former political rival to “[move] forward” instead of focusing on their clashes during the 2016 presidential campaign. Host Stephen Colbert read a critique from Clinton’s upcoming memoir, What Happened, aimed at Sanders: “Your attacks caused lasting damage, …
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Lorde explained how her synesthesia caused her to listen to lots of classic rock albums in a recent interview on WTF With Marc Maron.“Synesthesia is like when senses overlap,” she explained. “You know what’s quite good for synesthesia? Weirdly guitar music is not so overwhelming. I could listen to Neil …
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St. Vincent released “Los Ageless,” a gnarled, thumping dance-rock cut on Wednesday. The track will appear on her new album Masseduction, which is due out on October 13th via Loma Vista Recordings. “Los Ageless” is driven by the flat thwack of electronic drums and a squirting synth-bass sound. St. Vincent …
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“When I listen to our early stuff now, I’m blown away by the sheer energy of it,” former Hüsker Dü bassist Greg Norton says. “It holds up pretty well. I think it’s really gonna surprise a lot of people.” The world will be able to share in Norton’s excitement this …
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What drives Representative Tulsi Gabbard, a veteran of the Iraq war, to keep fighting for her core principles? Or comedian and writer Aparna Nancherla to not pull any punches and share her singular, plugged-in perspective? Whatever the motivation, there’s no denying that each of the 10 women in this list …
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Lil Yachty celebrates old-fashioned summer fun in his new music video for “Forever Young,” which dropped Friday. The Alex Lill-directed clip shows Yachty and a female friend (played by model India Love) acting like a couple of kids at a California carnival, driving bumper cars and go-karts, riding down a …
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It’s no longer political suicide, or so it seems, to embrace legalizing marijuana. At least among the younger generation of prominent Democrats, though there seems to be cracks in the dam amongst Republicans too. The latest evolution on the issue was on display this week as New Jersey Democratic Sen. …
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Filthy Friends – the supergroup featuring Sleater-Kinney singer Corin Tucker, R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Scott McCaughey, guitarist Kurt Bloch and drummer Linda Pitmon – released a charmingly lo-fi video for their song “Despierta.” In the clip, the quintet perform the rattling rocker to an audience of zero during a …
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