A year ago, things were looking pretty grim, climate-wise. The president of the United States was a thug who thought climate change was a hoax and science was a conspiracy to remove him from office. In Oregon, when a bill came up to put a price on carbon, Republican legislators …
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Last month, Miley Cyrus performed a special concert as part of Super Bowl LV’s official pregame event in Tampa Bay, Florida. The event was one of the first live concerts of its size since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic last March, put on for an audience of vaccinated and …
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Andra Day evokes civil rights icon Angela Davis in the new visual for “Tigress and Tweed,” from The United States vs. Billie Holiday soundtrack. In the one-shot video, Day replicates Davis’ historic 1972 interview from a California State Prison cell, where she spoke about the Black Panthers, protests, and police …
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Janet Jackson will mark the 40th anniversary of her eponymous 1982 debut album with a two-part documentary that will simulcast on Lifetime and A&E, the networks announced on Wednesday. Tentatively titled Janet, the documentary is projected to premiere in early 2022. The pop icon, who serves as an executive producer …
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In 1976, Kathy Sullivan was finishing up her Ph.D. in oceanography when an intriguing, if somewhat far-fetched, opportunity presented itself: the chance to become an astronaut. Her expertise was in the geology of the deep-sea floor, a few hundred miles in the exact opposite direction of where a space flight …
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CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan ventured out to California recently and spoke to QAnon believers who are convinced Trump will be back in the White House very soon as a result of a deadly military coup that they fully support. “This whole thing with Biden… he’s like a puppet president. The military …
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Last Week Tonight With John Oliver broadcast its season premiere on Sunday, returning after it last aired just days after the presidential election. While a lot has happened since then —including the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, the Wall Street’s Gamestop rollercoaster and Donald Trump’s impeachment trial culminating in an acquittal — …
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The ongoing legal battle over Britney Spears‘ conservatorship continued amid a week when discussion of the pop star’s life and career became a hot button topic following the airing of documentary Framing Britney Spears. At a hearing on Thursday, a probate judge overruled James “Jamie” Spears’ objection to an order …
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On the surface, the new version of “Love Story” that Taylor Swift released today to introduce her re-recorded catalog project shows few obvious differences from the original 2008 hit. The two songs share the same 3:55 length and nearly identical arrangements, from the opening banjo plucks to the tasteful fiddles …
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Pearl Jam has announced a livestream of their second of two Home Shows Seattle concerts, six months after the band hosted a pay-per-view stream of the first of the two 2018 gigs. In August 2018, Pearl Jam played a pair of “Home Shows” concerts at Seattle’s Safeco Field to raise …
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