At a concert honoring the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots Friday, Lady Gaga surprised the crowd with an impassioned speech dedicated to the LGBTQ community during this year’s Stonewall Day Concert. The “Born This Way” singer has long been an ally of the community, so she was a fitting …
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The opening night of the first Democratic primary debates didn’t feature many confrontations. The same can’t be said for the second night, which featured several tense moments, most notably a fierce back-and-forth on race between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. After agreeing with Marianne Williamson that reparations haven’t been talked …
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In 2018, a deputy White House press secretary claimed Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were “sacrificing in their service” in the White House. But one of the things the couple is not sacrificing is tons of income to the tune of tens of millions of dollars a year. According to …
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This is an excerpt from the new book, The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World, published by Harmony. THE LABORATORIES OF Memphis Meats are located in Berkeley, California, next to a juice bar and a small-batch coffee roaster, and not far from Alice Waters’s …
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This month at the movies — reboots, retreads and revisits, in every direction as far as the eye can see. Hankering for more Men in Black? Good news! Feel like one more go-round with foot-tall murderer Chucky? You’re in luck! In need of another dose of far-out soul from John …
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Every once in a while, a news item surfaces that prompts you to throw up your hands, sink back into your chair and begrudgingly welcome the impending apocalypse. The most recent item on this docket: A New York Times report confirming that between 2014 and 2015, Navy pilots reported “almost …
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Dana Carvey mimicked the many sounds of Donald Trump in an appearance on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon on Friday night. While the former Saturday Night Live cast member appeared on the show to promote his return to The Secret Life of Pets 2, he ended up running through a gamut …
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Joe Corré, the son of punk pioneer and Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren and designer Vivienne Westwood, has announced he is readying a documentary titled Wake Up Punk. The film will focus on Corré’s bizarre 2016 celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Sex Pistols’ 1976 single “Anarchy in the …
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John Oliver dissected America’s outdated and underfunded death investigation system on Last Week Tonight. “A death certificate isn’t like a degree from USC — it actually means something,” host John Oliver joked. And he spent the main segment detailing how the process of producing one has never been more of …
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Grumpy Cat, the pouty-faced feline that became an Internet sensation and even spawned a Christmas movie and bestselling book, has died at the age of 7, the cat’s owner confirmed on social media Friday. “We are unimaginably heartbroken to announce the loss of our beloved Grumpy Cat,” Tabatha Bundesen, Grumpy …
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