Maybe the most dubious item on President Trump’s self-professed “historic” list of accomplishments is the progress he claims to have made with North Korea. Since meeting with Kim Jong-un in Singapore last year, Trump has touted his loving relationship with the dictator while promising that the North Korean nuclear threat …
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It’s pretty obvious why so many people immediately inhaled both Hulu’s Fyre Fraud and Netflix’s Fyre as soon as they could. The very public dissolution of Fyre Fest was one of the most satisfying things about 2017: Trump had just taken office, the bad guys were winning, and watching influencers …
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A review of “Chidi Sees the Time-Knife,” this week’s The Good Place, coming up just as soon as I describe the plot of the Entourage movie to William Shakespeare … And so here we are, right back where it all started. Sort of. Other episodes this season (“Janet(s)” in particular) …
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The video features a slim, dark-haired woman who is totally naked, her ankles, wrists and neck bound by thick rope. A burly man subjects her to garden-variety BDSM torture — light flogging, bondage, forced orgasm — before tying her to a large wooden plank. He starts to drip water onto …
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Even with the government shutdown that’s been ominously hovering over Washington these past three weeks, there’s still a fresh Congress in town. That means the nation’s 535 lawmakers are in the first stages of trying to get their favored pet issues on the radar of party leaders. That focused energy …
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After weeks of speculation about whether Radiohead will show up for their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, Thom Yorke has confirmed that he won’t be in attendance for the March ceremony at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Speaking to Variety about the Rock Hall nod, Yorke admitted that the concept …
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Edgar Ivan Galván can trace the beginning of his troubles to the evenings he began to spend in nightclubs in Ciudad Juarez, in the wake of his divorce in 2003. What started as a good time, partying and doing drugs with friends, turned into an ill-fated career as a drug …
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The choreographed chaos of Jez Butterworth’s jaw-dropping play The Ferryman certainly earns the critical attention that’s been heaped on it. With 21 people in the cast — and a live goose and rabbit — the play about an extended family in 1980s Northern Ireland leaves audiences reeling after a suspenseful …
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In the midst of the government shutdown over funding of President Donald Trump‘s border wall, the president tweeted a bizarre justification for wanting to build a barrier between Mexico and the United States, saying that former President Barack Obama has a “ten foot Wall” surrounding his home in Washington, D.C. …
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Men at Work just announced their first tour in nearly 20 years, but anyone calling it a “reunion” is really stretching the definition of that word.The only member of any previous lineup returning is frontman Colin Hay, who will be joined by members of his solo band. “The set list …
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