“Welcome to a show about death!” the ebullient chorus of “mourners” sings. Then Beetlejuice — as interpreted for the stage by actor Alex Brightman, as a shameless, gravelly voiced vaudevillian huckster — reiterates in his own gleefully glib way: “That’s the thing with life, no one makes it out alive!” …
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Samantha Bee delivered a scathing roast of Donald Trump at the second annual Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C. Friday. With the real White House Correspondents Dinner taking a comedy-free route after Michelle Wolf’s controversial speech in 2018, and with Trump still not attending the annual event, …
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Minutes before President Donald Trump addressed the NRA at its annual convention, Russian influence agent Maria Butina was sentenced in federal court Friday to 18 months in prison. Butina had earlier pleaded guilty to conspiring to be an undeclared Russian agent in her work to influence the Trump administration by …
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Since President Trump took office, Republicans have accused social media platforms of bias against conservative users. But according to a new report from Motherboard, Twitter has avoided censoring white supremacists out of fear that it could impact the accounts of Republican politicians. The report cites a March 22nd meeting at …
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The Empire cast wants costar Jussie Smollett to return for the Fox series’ sixth season and they’ve collectively penned a letter of support, Variety reports. Smollett’s role in future episodes has been unclear following Smollett’s high-profile criminal scandal that involved the actor allegedly staging a racist and homophobic attack on …
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Schoolboy Q tries not to let his life spin out of control on his new song, “Crash,” set to appear on his forthcoming album, Crash Talk, out this Friday, April 26th. Boi-1da produced the track, winding a simple string loop around a head-nodding drum groove peppered with bass synth gurgles. …
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The release of the redacted Mueller report last week confirmed what many already knew: President Trump is a pathological liar, a serial criminal and woefully unfit to occupy the most powerful office in the world. One of the many questions that has emerged as Americans continue to parse the special …
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Maren Morris made a surprise appearance during Coachella’s second weekend, turning up to sing “The Middle” as part of German DJ-producer Zedd‘s set. The annual multi-artist festival wrapped its 2019 edition in Indio, California, on Sunday, April 21st. In fan-shot video, Morris is at the front of the stage, encouraging …
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Puerto Rican darlings Pedro Capó and Farruko come from two different ends of the island’s pop spectrum: on one end is Capó, a tender guitar balladeer, and on the other Farruko, an urbano player par excellence. But the two boricuas struck gold in 2018 with their remix of Capó’s “Calma” …
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Stephen Colbert dug into the Mueller report and the way Attorney General William Barr managed to spin many of the special counsel’s findings in President Donald Trump‘s favor on The Late Show Thursday. While the report laid out numerous instances where Trump seemed to obstruct justice, Barr said during a …
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