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“They were all guitars”: Paul Shaffer recalls why The Beatles didn’t click — at first
Legendary musician, band leader, actor and comedian Paul Shaffer joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about whether he would have...
Horror has a lock on making sapphic love seem trivial
In the tropey world of horror, few have it worse off than the bumbling, buxom straight ladies literally tripping over...
America can’t let go of George Washington’s slave-holding history
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The cosmetic industry’s new frontier: cadaver fat
Immortality-obsessed tech mogul Bryan Johnson has spent the past four years meticulously chronicling his efforts to live forever by way...
Why the manosphere has a glaring antisemitism problem
Toward the end of Netflix’s “Into the Manosphere,” documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux chats in Marbella, Spain, with British influencer Ed...
FEMA head claims he “teleported” to Waffle House
A federal emergency management official recently made a claim that has left colleagues scratching their heads and the internet buzzing....
“Rooster” and the wake-up call that nobody cares
Whenever I’ve needed a dopamine boost lately, two sources haven’t let me down. The first is author Tetyana Denford’s “Nobody...
“Hag” is a Tubi movie to rule them all
It began, as so many things do for me these days, on Letterboxd. As great as the movie-logging social platform...
From job-shamed to “The Pitt,” Geoffrey Owens’ full-circle moment
When Geoffrey Owens was photographed working at a Trader Joe’s in 2018, the reaction was swift, and, in many corners,...
Red Hot Chili Peppers gave us plenty to hate — and one song we can’t quit
“Can’t Stop,” in contrast, is adamantly positive and encouraging; the only thing Kiedis, a recovering substance abuser, says he’s addicted...
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