Late last month, the House Judiciary Committee issued subpoenas to former White House communications director Hope Hicks and former deputy White House counsel Annie Donaldson for documents and testimony. On Tuesday, the Trump administration directed Hicks and Donaldson to defy the subpoenas. In other words, they were directed to break …
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One night not long ago, Willie Nelson wrote some lyrics about mortality and sent them off to his producer-collaborator, Buddy Cannon. “Time, as you pass me by, why did you leave these lines on my face?” Nelson wrote in the new song “Come on Time.” “You sure have put me …
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Although the Beastie Boys‘ influence on N.W.A should be obvious — their first track on N.W.A. and the Posse, “8-Ball,” starts with a callout to “Brass Monkey” — Ice Cube recently recalled how much the New York trio meant to him early on in an interview with Mike D on …
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The Spice Girls kicked off their long-awaited Spiceworld reunion tour in Dublin Friday night, reuniting onstage for the first time in seven years. For the show at Croke Park, members Emma Bunton (Baby Spice), Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice), Melanie Brown (Scary Spice) and Melanie Chisholm (Sporty Spice) performed a slew …
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On the latest cover of Rolling Stone, Howard Stern poses with two black foster kittens named Trick and Treat. They were brought to the photoshoot by his wife Beth, who fosters cats in partnership with North Shore Animal League America. It was Stern’s idea to have her husband hold the …
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Listen to an audio version of this story here: One fateful night last fall in Malibu, Kevin Parker was stoned and tipsy in an ocean-view rental house, writing music and marveling at the ferocious Santa Ana winds. “It was apocalyptically windy,” he says. “I couldn’t even stand outside to smoke …
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Okay, sure — an EDM remix of Van Halen‘s synth-rock classic “Jump” sounds pretty horrendous in theory. Hear me out, though! Dutch trance god Armin van Buuren‘s sleek, rave-ready revamp of the 1983 hit is an absolute winner. We can only hope it leads to more glowstick-ready remixes of classic …
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Saturday Night Live opened with a Meet the Press sketch that teased Republican leadership over their unimpeachable support of Donald Trump, even as the president’s actions conflict with their own political beliefs. For instance, all three GOP members – Beck Bennett’s Mitch McConnell, Kate McKinnon’s Lindsey Graham and Cicely Strong’s …
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Anna Delvey, the so-called Soho Grifter was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison after being found guilty of scamming hotels, restaurants, banks and more out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, The New York Times reports. Last month, Delvey (born Anna Sorokin) was found guilty of eight of …
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When former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke, now a 2020 candidate, bounded up onto a platform inside Trinkle Hall on the campus of William and Mary College in Virginia in mid-April, he may not have known he was bounding into a carefully planned ambush. Scattered throughout the audience, student activists were …
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