Teyana Taylor has released a music video for her song “We Got Love.” The track, which features Ms. Lauryn Hill, originally emerged last year and will appear on her upcoming release The Album. In the African-inspired clip, directed by the singer herself, Taylor dons traditional African garments and showcases choreographed …
Read More »Natalee Holloway-Inspired 'Saint X' Is More Than a Beach Read
Natalee Holloway dominated the news in the early 2000s — a blonde 18-year-old who vanished during a senior class trip to Aruba. Alexis Schaitkin’s debut novel, Saint X, delves into what it means when beautiful, promising young women go missing in foreign lands — and the ripples that emanate out …
Read More »City Girls Are Finally Free
All through 2019, Jatavia “JT” Johnson tracked the rise of her duo, City Girls, by watching the size of the jewelry worn by her musical partner, Caresha “Yung Miami” Brownlee, in their frequent video calls. “Things were getting bigger,” she says with a giggle. JT spent most of last year …
Read More »Joe Biden Has Been Dropping Hints About his VP Pick
Update: Former Vice President Joe Biden committed at the March 15th Democratic debate that his running mate would be a woman. His campaign confirmed the news in a tweet: “My running mate will be a woman.” WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden is close to all but securing the …
Read More »'The Plot Against America' Review: An Alternate History Turned Terrifying Allegory
When Philip Roth published The Plot Against America in 2004 — an alternate history where pilot Charles Lindbergh is elected president in 1940 on an antiwar and barely veiled anti-Semitic platform — George W. Bush was nearing re-election and NBC was debuting the second season of The Apprentice, a game …
Read More »John Oliver Rips Trump's Coronavirus Disinformation Campaign
John Oliver tore into President Donald Trump‘s handling of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, criticizing his “callous indifference to human life” on Last Week Tonight Sunday. Oliver focused on the slew of bad information about the outbreak coming from the administration, with The Independent noting that at one …
Read More »Old Dominion Pull Out of C2C Festival, Citing Coronavirus Threat
Concerns about the coronavirus have affected the country music community. Citing fears over COVID-19, Old Dominion have announced that they are canceling their appearances at next week’s international Country to Country festival. “After much consideration, we have decided to withdraw from our upcoming performances as part of the @c2cfestival in …
Read More »Bernie Sanders' Best Quality Is That He's Disposable
Running for President of the United States is a fundamentally narcissistic act. As a rule, you should never trust a person who does it. This includes Bernie Sanders. Sanders is rare among candidates, however, in that he seems to share this opinion. Yes, he is mounting his second insurgent presidential …
Read More »Hillary Clinton Criticizes Trump for Downplaying Coronavirus on 'Fallon'
Hillary Clinton said she hoped President Donald Trump would stop calling the coronavirus outbreak a hoax during an interview with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show Wednesday. The former Democratic presidential candidate said she wasn’t surprised by how the Trump administration was handling the outbreak, adding: “This is something that …
Read More »Bad Bunny Plays a Video Game Character in New 'Hablamos Mañana' Video
Bad Bunny has released a new video for his Yo Hago Lo Que Me Da La Gana trap-rock cut, “Hablamos Mañana,” featuring Argentine and Chilean MCs Duki and Pablo Chill-E. Directed by Stillz and Nude Robot, the video opens with a live action scene starring a young Bad Bunny lookalike — …
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