Weekend Update covered Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Super Bowl, the upcoming Trump impeachment trial and the video of Morgan Wallen using a racial slur on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live. Last week’s SNL episode focused on Greene, mocking her in the cold open and Weekend Update. Since …
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WASHINGTON — Dark money, that torrent of anonymous cash unleashed by groups with mind-numbingly generic names such as Americans for Prosperity or Patriot Majority, is an ugly fixture of American politics, a weapon used to win elections, confirm (or defeat) judges, and pass (or defeat) legislation. Once dominated by ultra-wealthy …
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Cicely Tyson, the trailblazing actress died whose career spanned more than six decades, died Thursday afternoon, her manager Larry Thompson confirmed. She was 96. From the start of her career, Tyson resolved to portray strong, positive, and realistic images of black women onscreen, and for many, she represented an enduring …
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Jonny Greenwood, the guitarist and backbone of Radiohead, is slated to score Spencer, Pablo Larraín’s upcoming film starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana. As Indiewire reports, Spencer is set over the course of a weekend in December 1991, as Princess Diana spends Christmas with the royal family and ultimately decides …
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A Lifetime biopic about Salt-N-Pepa? Pick up on this! If you happen to love both Lifetime movies and Eighties rap goddesses, Salt-N-Pepa has everything: Two around-the-way girls meet in school, bond over music, break into the NYC hip-hop game, and blow up into superstars, with hits like “Push It” and …
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While much of the focus of the investigations into January 6th’s domestic terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol has centered on followers of the internet conspiracy theory QAnon, details are emerging about the potential involvement of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing militia, in the recent insurrection. This development comes following …
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Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said that Trump “can’t be trusted,” and he sees no reason why the president should receive intelligence briefings during his remaining days in office or going forward. “There is no circumstance in which this president should get another intelligence …
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Is it too early to call song of the year? Olivia Rodrigo’s debut single, “Drivers License,” makes it difficult to not believe that both she and the moving power ballad are meant to completely dominate 2021. Rodrigo’s nostalgic, piano-assisted song builds slowly as a story about the 17-year-old finally getting …
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At midnight on Christmas, Playboi Carti declared himself Santa. After years of hype, false starts, and cryptic messages to fans, the rapper finally shared his album Whole Lotta Red, the hotly anticipated follow up to 2018’s Die Lit. The 24-track, 62-minute record inspired an almost immediate bifurcation on social media. …
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Public Enemy‘s recent, guest-star-ladenWhat You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down? is, undoubtedly, the greatest album ever made by a hip-hop group 35 years deep into its career – in that it’s almost certainly the onlyalbum in that category thus far. That distinction aside, it’s genuinely excellent in its …
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