Walmart has decided to remove displays and signs of violent video games in its stores while continuing to sell guns. The move comes in response to the recent mass shootings, two of which took place inside its stores. “We’ve taken this action out of respect for the incidents of the …
Read More »RS Charts: Chance the Rapper Bests Drake, Claims Top Spot on Artists 500r
Chance the Rapper bumped Drake to take the Number One spot on the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart for the week of July 26th to August 1st. After landing at Number 85 last week with 17.1 million streams, the Chicago rapper notched 117 million total streams, propelled by his new …
Read More »The Gilroy Garlic Fest Shooter Plugged a White Power Manifesto on Instagram
On Sunday afternoon, a gunman opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, an annual summer festival in the quiet city of Gilroy, California, located about 30 miles south of San Jose. The gunman killed three people, including a six-year-old boy, and injured at least 12 others. Police said the gunman …
Read More »Love Lifts Us Up: 'Moulin Rouge! the Musical' Packs More Pop Than One Show Can Handle
Moulin Rouge! the Musical: 3/5 Stars There was a show. A very strange, enchanted show. Entering the red light-coated Al Hirschfeld Theatre, with the stage flanked on either side with a giant red windmill and a large elephant’s head, you’re immediately asked to immerse yourself in the dreamlike, fantastical world …
Read More »Inside Woodstock 50's Last-Ditch Maryland Attempt
The countdown clock on Woodstock 50’s website continues to subtract days, minutes, and hours until August 16th, when the festival would ostensibly kick off. In recent weeks, its harried organizers have been denied permits four times in Vernon, New York, where they attempted to move the beleaguered fest from its …
Read More »Hear the Highwomen Cover Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain'
Update [8/2]: On Friday, the Highwomen released their full version of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain,” a song they recorded for the soundtrack to the upcoming film The Kitchen. After making their official introduction last week with the track “Redesigning Women,” the Highwomen have now put their spin on a four-part …
Read More »Taylor Swift Brings Spectacle, Avoids Controversy at Amazon Music Concert
In the 1950s, an iconoclastic quantum scientist and mathematician named Hugh Everett developed the many-worlds theory, a controversial idea that would lay the groundwork for a canon of alternate universe sci-fi detailing parallel dimensions. Everett’s work focused on the splits in the universe caused by measuring quantum objects, but became …
Read More »Who Is British Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's Longtime Partner?
Update: Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested on July 2nd, 2020. Since hedge fund manager and well-connected billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on Saturday and charged with sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy, the names of powerful men in his social circle — including President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, and, …
Read More »Stevie Wonder to Receive Kidney Transplant in September
Stevie Wonder revealed during his London concert Saturday that he would undergo kidney surgery in September. “So what’s gonna happen is this, I’m going to have surgery, I’m going to have a kidney transplant in September of this year. I’m all good, I’m all good, I’m all good. I have …
Read More »Nas Gathers Unreleased Tracks for Long-Awaited 'Lost Tapes 2'
Nas will collect unreleased tracks from his last four albums on his long-awaited new compilation, The Lost Tapes 2, out July 19th via Mass Appeal and Def Jam. The 16-track set will feature songs made during the sessions for 2006’s Hip-Hop is Dead, 2008’s Untitled, 2012’s Life Is Good and …
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