Election officials in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have distributed more than 4 million mail-in ballots to voters in the lead-up to the 2020 election. State legislators in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, however, have deliberately refused to give those administrators any extra time to open, process, and tabulate all of those ballots. And …
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Sacha Baron Cohen offered some fascinating behind-the-scenes details from the making of Borat Subsequent Movie Film — including how that infamous Rudy Giuliani scene came about — during an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show Monday, October 26th. To start, Colbert asked Baron Cohen to respond to Giuliani’s …
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When a documentary’s opening title card is “Flint, Michigan,” your instinct might be to assume that this will be a certain stripe of downbeat, sociological, living, tragic history — a story already pre-written by the headlines you’ve read about the place. But Roni Moore and James Blagden’s Midnight in Paris …
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A review of “Rewind 1921,” this week’s episode of Lovecraft Country, coming up just as soon as I tell you the ingredients for “road rash”… “I got ya, kid.” —Tic “Rewind 1921” debuts about a week shy of the one-year anniversary of the Watchmen series premiere, which put the Tulsa …
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Jon Bon Jovi is seated in the office of his Manhattan home, the New York skyline visible over his shoulder in the window behind him. A framed Shepard Fairey silkscreen of a hand grenade spray-painting the word “POWER” in a pop-art font hangs on the wall. In the glass, you …
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First-round Grammy voting gets underway on September 30th and runs through October 12th. For our2021 Grammy preview issue, we asked a series of likely contenders for next year’s awards to reflect on their past experiences at the ceremony, look ahead to the future, and discuss the albums and singles that …
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Bruce Springsteen shares a handful of formative musical memories in the latest episode of Rolling Stone’s The First Time. When asked about the first time a song changed his life, the rock legend shared a vivid story from his adolescence, when the Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” came …
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Disney Plus has released the trailer for the new season of The Mandalorian, coming Friday, October 30th to the streaming platform. The teaser gives us a glimpse of the Mandalorian as he is tasked with bringing the Child (a.k.a. “Baby Yoda,” as dubbed by the internet) to his own kind, …
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Actress and comedian Yvette Nicole Brown appeared onRolling Stone‘s The First Time to talk about her new role in the Audible fiction podcastVroom Vroom, opposite renowned voice actor John DiMaggio. “The first time I ever did voiceover work was in a show calledPound Puppies,” Brown said. “Hasbro had a network …
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Following the Trump campaign’s use of a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” during the fireworks portion of the Republican National Convention Thursday night, the Cohen estate issued a statement criticizing the unauthorized use of the oft-covered classic. “We are exploring our legal options,” the estate warned on Friday. “We are …
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