Rhodes Technologies Inc. has been granted a patent for a new drug that could help treat opioid addiction. This sounds like good news at first — like someone’s actually doing something to fight the epidemic that’s destroying lives across the country at an alarming rate. It sounds like good news, …
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Hollywood has been keeping the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office awfully busy this summer. According to the New York Daily News, local law enforcement has handed the DA’s sexual assault task force three new cases for review. Earlier this week, the Los Angeles Police Department forwarded the DA their …
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Update: On October 17th, legal weed went into effect in Canada. With Donald Trump subverting America’s global standing – feuding with allies, palling around with dictators, snatching toddlers from migrant mothers – Justin Trudeau just may be the leader of the Free World. Starting this week, the prime minister’s youthful, …
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John Boehner is now an unexpected ally in the fight for legal weed. The Republican, who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives between 2011 and 2015, joined the board of advisors for Acreage Holdings, a company that cultivates, processes and dispenses cannabis in 11 states. Seven years …
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Stevie Wonder tapped a Barack and Michelle Obama, Paul McCartney, Meryl Streep, Bruce Springsteen and many more for an inspiring video to honor the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death. Wonder opens the “Dream Still Lives” video with a simple, but powerful message: “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s …
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Council Member Rafael Espinal have announced the appointment of Ariel Palitz as its first Senior Executive Director of the Office of Nightlife, also known as the city’s Nightlife Mayor. The former owner of the now-closed Sutra nightclub will serve as a liaison …
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Kevin Hart extended his “Irresponsible” standup jaunt into a massive worldwide tour, adding over 100 new shows throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. The first North American leg kicks off March 23rd in Baltimore, Maryland and concludes August 5th in Biloxi, Mississippi; after a run of international dates, a …
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Tampa police may have ended a six-week hunt for a serial killer when they arrested former St John’s University basketball player Howell Emanuel Donaldson III earlier this week. The 24-year-old McDonald’s crew leader was taken into custody at the fast food restaurant near the city’s Seminole Heights neighborhood, where he …
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Al Franken issued a new apology Friday after two more women accused the Minnesota senator of inappropriate touching. The two women anonymously stepped forward in a Huffington Post report, with both women claiming that Franken touched their buttocks during separate campaign events. The first woman claimed that Franken grabbed her …
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Take one thing with another, you really haven’t lived until in the middle of a cocktail party your phone lights up and you angle the phone so everyone can see who is calling and tonight’s caller happens to be Charlie Manson, the hippy-Svengali, buckskin-fringe-wearing mass murderer who is serving seven …
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