Legislators who want recreational cannabis in New Mexico have just a few days to get a bill to Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s desk before the legislative session ends March 16th. Even if it doesn’t pass, the bill’s arrangement — which establishes a network of cannabis dispensaries owned and operated by …
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Ditto Music has made a name for itself over the last decade as an indie music distribution service used by artists from Ed Sheeran to Stormzy to Chance the Rapper. It’s now ready to expand, and the direction of its growth offers a good insight into the trajectory of the …
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Sometimes when Dr. Leana Wen thinks about how public policies affect private lives, she thinks of little scraps of paper. In September, four months after Cecile Richards stepped down as president of Planned Parenthood, Wen, 36, became the first physician in almost 50 years to hold that role, and the …
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Each episode of Saturday Night Live has its own rhythm, and this John Mulaney-hosted endeavor had that of a jam band that was locked in during a live concert. Most of the sketches were long. Like, really long. So long that the normal pattern of the 90-minute episode was essentially …
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After Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga‘s tantalizing piano seat snuggle fest, it only felt right that A Star Is Born clinched the Oscar for Best Original Song. Related: 20 Best, Worst and Most WTF Oscars 2019 Moments The four songwriters – Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Andrew Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt …
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After Mötley Crüe played what they say was their last-ever concert, on New Year’s Eve 2015, things got weird — even for them. The band had signed a “cessation of touring agreement” in 2014, swearing never to reunite onstage and, as Tommy Lee told Rolling Stone after the gig, it …
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Mandy Moore appeared onWTF With Marc Maron podcast on Monday, where shediscussed her seven-year marriage with singer-songwriter Ryan Adams, whom she and several women have accused of emotional abuse and sexual misconduct in a New York Times exposé. Adams has denied the allegations. “I was living my life for him,” …
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The NYPD is investigating a Brooklyn-based commanding officer who allegedly threatened to end rapper 50 Cent’s life. The commander, DeputyInspector Emanuel Gonzalez of the 72nd Precinct in Sunset Park, reportedly told his officers to “shoot him on sight” duringa roll call on June 7th, 2018, New YorkDaily Newsreports. The threat …
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In the past year alone, Lukas Nelson has played all over world with his band Promise of the Real, collaborated with Lady Gaga on the A Star Is Born soundtrack and appeared alongside her in the movie, and continued to blow minds as Neil Young‘s lead guitar player both in …
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If you want to know what James Cameron has been up to since he achieved worldwide box-office dominance with Avatar 10 years ago — besides tinkering away on a bunch of Avatar sequels we still don’t have release dates for — you may want to check out Alita: Battle Angel. …
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