“YouTube at 15” is our package of stories to celebrate the streaming site’s anniversary. It’s hard to imagine, but there really was a time before makeup tutorials, conspiracy explainers, on-demand music videos — really, viral videos at large. Since it’s become such a ubiquitous part of culture, we set out …
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Ever watch a mediocre movie, see a performance that doesn’t align with anything else onscreen, and think, “I want to see whatever film THAT person is in instead?” (Think Alan Rickman in Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves and you get the gist.) That was the overriding feeling in this week’s …
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Shannen Doherty revealed that her breast cancer diagnosis has returned and reached stage 4 in an interview with Good Morning America Tuesday. “I don’t think I’ve processed it,” Doherty said. “It’s a bitter pill to swallow in a lot of ways… I definitely have days where I say why me? …
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WASHINGTON —Back by unpopular demand is the New York Times‘ election-night needle. The paper announced Monday it would be rolling out not one but four different needles to project and predict the results of the Iowa caucus. You probably remember the Times’ needle from the 2016 election. The Times is …
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Aerosmith performed a searing “Livin’ on the Edge” and reunited with Run-D.M.C. for “Walk This Way” during the band’s Grammys performance in celebration of their legacy. The band kicked off with their 1993 hit — with Steven Tyler running up to Lizzo so that she could help out with the …
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DAVOS, SWITZERLAND — Marc Benioff, the Salesforce CEO, announced on Thursday that more than 300 companies have signed on to his Trillion Tree Campaign, which aims to plant, restore, or conserve 1 trillion trees by the end of the decade. Benioff broke the news in Davos, Switzerland, at the World …
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Neil Portnow, who stepped down as CEO of the Recording Academy in 2019, called a new allegation of rape “ludicrous and untrue” in a statement on Wednesday. Portnow was accused of raping an unnamed “foreign recording artist” after her show at Carnegie Hall in New York in a document filed …
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Bon Iver have canceled their upcoming Come Through shows with the Minnesota dance group, TU Dance, after the company’s co-founder was accused of sexual harassment, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. The performances were set to take place in Houston, Nashville and New Orleans at the end of February. Refunds are …
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Two years after his death and 50 years after the infamous murders he orchestrated, Charles Manson is still fascinating some and inciting terror in others. This time, it’s in the form of two masks of his likeness that reportedly contain his cremated remains, as well as human blood. This unusual …
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During halftime of Saturday’s Yale-Harvard football game, protesters took the field to make their voices heard on the topic of climate change. According to the New York Times, at its peak, the crowd at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn., grew to approximately 500 strong. The protestors called on …
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