It’s been 470 calendar days since Beyoncé gave her stans an inkling that a Renaissance visual album was coming. In the year following the release of her seventh studio album, the BeyHive relied on their improvisational skills to keep them engaged throughout its nontraditional rollout. They made viral dance challenges …
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The Barcelona-based music festival Primavera Sound will return in 2024 with headlining performances from Lana Del Rey, SZA, and Pulp. The event is scheduled to take place between May 29 and June 2, with additional appearances from Disclosure, FKA Twigs, Justice, Mitski, The National, Phoenix, and more. The lineup also …
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Nearly a year and a half after Frank James opened fire in a Brooklyn subway, injuring 10 people, he has been sentenced to 10 life-in-prison sentences — one for each of his victims. The New York Times reports that James, age 64, also received an additional 10 years on his …
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Lana Del Rey and Jack Antonoff serenaded Margaret Qualley over the weekend. During Del Rey’s headlining performance at All Things Go Fest in Baltimore, the singer’s go-to producer Antonoff joined her onstage to duet Tunnel Blvd‘s “Margaret” and Norman Fucking Rockwell‘s “Venice Bitch.” “He’s here with his beautiful wife Margaret,” …
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The United States was founded on the separation of church and state. It’s in the Constitution and everything. The Republican Party has long been working to dismantle this principle — sometimes by gesturing toward Christian nationalism, and sometimes, in the case of the Texas state Senate, by trying to write …
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The latest artificial intelligence tool to sweep social media is “Historical Figures Chat,” a novelty that currently sits at the #34 spot in the “Education” section of Apple‘s app store. “With this app, you can chat with deceased individuals who have made a significant impact on history from ancient rulers …
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This post contains spoilers for this week’s Better Call Saul, “Nippy,” which we recapped here. Better Call Saul viewers can be forgiven for assuming that AMC aired the wrong episode this week. “Nippy,” an episode-length trip into the black-and-white world of Gene Takovic from Cinnabon — a.k.a. the fugitive alias …
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After two years on hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, VidCon — the annual convention for fans, creators, and online platform industry types — returned to the Anaheim Convention Center last week. But it looked a little different than usual. For starters, the ear-piercing shrieks of fans lining up to …
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The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a provision of New York state’s concealed-carry licensing system, ruling that the state’s laws imposing limits on who could carry concealed weapons in public was unconstitutional. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen centers around a 1913 New York law …
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“You think that you are the cleverest person in the room, and that makes you dangerous,” a colleague tells Dr. Adam Kay, the British obstetrician at the center of the UK limited series This Is Going to Hurt. Ordinarily, this is the kind of sentiment hurled at the protagonist of …
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