Raphael Bob-Waksberg was trafficking in the missed connection before you even knew he existed. Back in 2013, before his animated show BoJack Horseman haunted our laptops, an anonymous message was posted on New York Craigslist under the rubric of “Missed Connection—m4w.” The post tells the old story of a man …
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Following the Lance Bass-produced YouTube documentary The Boy Band Con, a biopic of Lou Pearlman is officially in the works. Transcon will tell the story of late boy band mogul turned Ponzi schemer, who died in prison in 2016. Producer Edward R. Pressman and Greg Basser (previously the CEO of Village …
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Nine-piece K-pop group NCT 127 have released their latest single “Highway to Heaven,” produced by the American pop duo Social House (Ariana Grande’s “thank u, next,” “7 Rings”). The single release includes an entirely English-language version of the song alongside the original version in Korean. The single arrives on the …
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Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug kingpin known as “El Chapo,” was condemned to life in prison plus 30 years in a packed hearing Wednesday morning. The severity of the crimes for which Loera was convicted mandated a life sentence, rendering the hearing little more than a formality. But as …
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In October, Wilco will release their eleventh album and their first since 2016’s excellent Schmilco. It comes with an ambitiously universal titled, Ode to Joy. “Nobody needs more Wilco music,” Jeff Tweedy says in a statement. “But at the same time, if you use that as motivation, that’s a lot …
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After touring boats, irrigations systems, and the other Made-in-America wares displayed on the White House lawn Monday, President Trump took to a podium to give a longwinded speech riddled with lies about job creation, trade, and the manufacturing industry. He then asked for questions about the issues he had just …
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Ed Sheeran‘s new album, No.6 Collaborations Project, feels like a game of musical Mad Libs. 22 guest vocalists are spread, seemingly at random, across 15 tracks that riff through styles — lead-footed southern rock and featherweight acoustic balladry, lithe R&B and a clumsy homage to Aftermath Entertainment, Latin pop and …
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On Tuesday, a thread from Salty, a newsletter and digital publication aimed at women, transgender, gender non-conforming, and non-binary people, started circulating on Twitter. The thread called out Instagram for banning six ads featuring transgender and non-binary people of color. Instagram’s reasoning: the ads in question promoted escorting services, they …
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Robert Finley, the 65-year-old singer who became the breakout star of Dan Auerbach’s 2018 Easy Eye Sound Revue tour, brought down the house with a performance of his track “Get It While You Can” on America’s Got Talent Tuesday. Finley’s performance was preceded by a brief biography that touched on …
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Mark Ronson is one of several bounty hunters enlisted to seek out Camila Cabello in the Kill Bill-esque “Find U Again” video. The single was featured on Ronson’s star-studded heartbreak-pop album Late Night Feelings. The video opens with one of the hunters, named the Duke, being told that Cabello is at …
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