Culture

Patricio Manuel made history this month by becoming the first transgender male to compete in a professional boxing match in the United States. The fight was sanctioned by the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC), which in recent years has been at the forefront of combat sports regulation in the country. …

Michael Avenatti, who was launched into the spotlight earlier this year as the attorney for Stormy Daniels, the exotic dancer who claims to have had an affair with President Trump, was arrested Wednesday afternoon on felony domestic violence charges. However, since news broke on Wednesday evening, it’s become increasingly unclear …

In September, as Donald Trump toured New Bern, North Carolina, a neighborhood hit hard by Hurricane Florence, the president became distracted by a shiny object: a lovely yacht, washed up in a backyard. “Is this your boat?” Trump asked a resident, according to the Washington Post. “Or did it become …

“The Man” was the perfect nickname for him. Stan Lee was the kind of person for whom the phrase “towering figure” was invented. As the co-creator of Spider-Man, Iron Man, Black Panther, the Hulk, the X-Men, the Avengers, Daredevil, Thor, Doctor Strange, the Fantastic Four, Ant-Man, Black Widow and countless …

Scott Paul Beierle was in eighth grade when he first started to hate women. “If you haven’t seen the will a group of women can generate when they target an adult male, or really anyone,” Beierle said in a video titled “The Rebirth of my Misogynism,” one of 15 vlogs …

On Wednesday, October 31st, Mexico’s Supreme Court handed down two decisions deeming the country’s recreational marijuana prohibition laws to be unconstitutional. The Supreme Court “found that adults have a fundamental right to personal development which lets them decide their recreational activities without interference from the state,” according to the Associated …

Cameron Crowe‘s Oscar-winning 2000 filmAlmost Famousis currently being adapted into a musical that may be headed to Broadway in the near future. Starring Kate Hudson, Frances McDormand, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Billy Crudup, the movie was a fictionalized retelling of Crowe’s experience writing forRolling Stone as a teenager in the …

Earlier this week, the New Mexico Department of Health announced the closure of a spa in Albuquerque after one of their clients reportedly developed an “unspecified infection” sometime after getting a “vampire facial.” During an inspection of the facility on Friday morning, health department officials became concerned about the way …

Joseph DeAngelo, the 72-year-old former police officer accused of being the long-sought “Golden State Killer,” was arraigned in a Sacramento court on Thursday on 13 new rape-related charges . DeAngelo was arrested in late April after evading investigators for more than 40 years, thanks to new familial DNA technology and …

Over the last week, more than 18,000 acres of Southern California’s Cleveland National Forest have been torched and over 21,000 Riverside County residents have been evacuated from their homes as fire authorities struggle to contain what they’re calling the Holy Fire, which began in Holy Jim Canyon on Monday afternoon. …