A review of this week’s Fargo, “East/West,” coming up just as soon as my dog is named Rabbit… In 2009, the Coen brothers sat down with critic Elvis Mitchell for a career retrospective conversation on their home turf in Minneapolis. At one point in the wide-ranging discussion, Mitchell asks about …
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For over three decades, Wade Davis has been one of the most well-known anthropologists on the planet. He’s lit himself on fire among the secret societies of Haiti, drank blood with the nomads of Kenya, turned the taking of psychedelics into an actual science, and lived among more than 15 …
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John Oliver relished Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 presidential election and looked ahead at the fights to come on Last Week Tonight Sunday, November 8th. The host began with a recap of how Election Day turned into election week, as key swing states counted mountains of mail-in ballots and …
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It’s no question that this election has been a nail-biter — with Georgia flipping to blue early Friday — so it’s fitting, really, that Georgia politician Stacey Abrams has a thriller coming out in May 2021. Abrams has been widely lauded for helping Biden take the lead in her home …
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If you haven’t already heard of Davido, you will soon enough. The 27-year-old Atlanta-born, Lagos-raised star is Nigeria’s king of afrobeats music. The business school dropout with a wealthy businessman father (his 2012 debut, Omo Baba Olowo, translates to “rich man’s son”) has been famous across Africa for years; here …
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WASHINGTON — The raw numbers are staggering. As of Tuesday afternoon, at least 69 million Americans had already voted in the 2020 election. With six days left until polls close on the night of November 3rd, experts estimate about 40 percent of the votes are already in. So what does …
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Teyana Taylor has released her latest self-directed music video, “Lose Each Other,” taken from her newest LP The Album. The visual features a special appearance from Elton John, who plays piano during the song alongside Taylor’s vocals, a guitarist, and a duo of dancers. “’Lose Each Other’ is such a …
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Killer Mike discussed his friendship with Bernie Sanders, how the quarantine affected his chain of barbershops and his controversial meeting with Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia during an interview Friday on Jimmy Kimmel Live. In September, the Run the Jewels rapper revealed that he met Kemp — who Kimmel called …
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Before a single line of dialogue is uttered in Charm City Kings — before the title credits have barely begun rolling — you hear the sound of motorbikes: a whirring, revving, sputtering cacophony that sounds like the occupants of a hornet’s nest switching to savage mode. In Baltimore, Maryland, the …
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Billy Corgan paid tribute to Eddie Van Halen, “a man of staggering genius, who wrapped his gift in a smile and a party’s swing,” on social media following the guitar god’s death at the age of 65. “What a musician, what a legacy, what power and mastery,” the Smashing Pumpkins …
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