David Lynch marked Election Day 2020 with his personal forecast — not in terms of votes, but the weather, which he’s been tracking regularly on YouTube since May. The idiosyncratic filmmaker typically keeps his dispatches to the point and did so Tuesday, November 3rd, despite everything else going on in …
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Election Day 2020 is going to be a wild one. There are two big reasons for this. The first is that Covid-19 has led an unprecedented number of Americans to use mail-in ballots, and different states have different procedures for counting them. This usually doesn’t matter, but since there are …
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In the latest socially distanced episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by friends of the show Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti, of The Hill’s “Rising.” For Republicans Suck, Matt submits a clip of Jared Kushner that’s made the rounds for it’s repugnant …
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The Mandalorian is back for its second season, and we have a review of the premiere, “The Marshal,” coming up just as soon as both suns shine on a womp rat’s tail… Among the many pleasures of Mandalorian Season One was its briskness. Many episodes clocked in between 30 and …
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Shani Gonzales, the new head of international A&R for Warner Chappell, is an American who makes sure Americans hear music from outside America. Gonzales has form in this area: Before joining Warner Chappell last year, she spent nearly six years at rival BMG, where she rose to co-head of A&R …
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City Girls and Lil Baby take to the friendly skies in the new video for “Flewed Out,” which arrives four months after the Miami duo and the Atlanta rapper dropped their collaborative single. The video finds Quality Control labelmates Lil Baby and City Girls’ Yung Miami and JT delivering the …
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Jon Stewart will host a new series on Apple TV+, as The New York Times reports. The multiple Emmy Award-winning former The Daily Show host’s as-yet-untitled series will focus on current affairs. The one-hour episodes will center on a single topic and the streaming service has ordered the series for …
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On Monday, Senate Republicans confirmed President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, in a 52-48 vote. The confirmation gives Trump his third appointment to the nation’s highest court in his first term in office. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine), who is in a tough battle to retain her seat, …
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In his excellent biography of art curator and collector Sam Wagstaff, Philip Gefter notes how the rise of the gay rights movement in the early 1970s occurred at the same time as the growing interest in photography as an equal among the arts. Once he was turned on to photography …
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On the release day of her double solo LP Songs and Instrumentals, Adrianne Lenker has dropped a video for “Zombie Girl.” The clip opens with Lenker playing the acoustic guitar in a cabin in the woods — where she recorded the two albums in quarantine. “What a dream that was,” she sings. “I …
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