Kevin McCarthy started speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives not long after 8 p.m. Thursday night. He stopped just after 5 a.m. Friday morning, setting the record for the longest continuous speech in modern House history. Ironically, he didn’t have much to say. The minority leader’s address …
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Eric Clapton teamed up with anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to bemoan Covid-19 mandates and Rolling Stone’s scathing articles about him in his first interview in a while — outside of statements posted to Telegram. Posted last week on Kennedy’s The Defender site, the interview features Clapton talking about how …
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In 2003, Rolling Stone published its definitive list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, the most popular and most argued-over list in the magazine’s history. In 2020, we completely remade the list, adding more than 150 new titles. Then, in the Amazon Original podcast Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest …
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Like catching a roadrunner without getting an anvil dropped on your head, adapting animated stories into live action is a high-risk endeavor. There are so many things you can do with relative ease in the former medium that create enormous difficulties in the latter. It’s not just about spectacle and …
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Update: ABC 13 reported Tuesday that Bharti Shahani has shown no brain activity after suffering her injuries at Astroworld. Her family told the station they were deciding their next steps. A 22-year-old Texas A&M senior is among those in critical condition, fighting for her life at Houston Methodist days after …
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On Saturday Night Live‘s recurring “Dionne Warwick Talk Show” sketch, Ego Nwodim plays the iconic singer who is constantly confused — and occasionally spooked — by contemporary musicians. This week, that meant artists like Miley Cyrus (played by Chloe Fineman) to Post Malone (Pete Davidson) to Jason Mraz (Kieran Culkin) …
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The ambitious new Western The Harder They Fall (in theaters and streaming on Netflix now) begins with a winking disclaimer: “While the events of this story are fictional . . .” the opening title card reads, “These. People. Existed.” The feature debut of writer-director Jeymes Samuel stars Jonathan Majors as the outlaw Nat …
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A disturbing new poll revealed that one-third of Republicans believe that violence may be necessary “in order to save our country.” The poll, from the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), demonstrates the hold that conspiracy theories and lies have on the GOP even with Trump out of office. Robert …
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Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe — the duo of Mark Lanegan and the Icarus Line’s Joe Cardamone — have treated fans this Halloween with their spooky visual for “Living Dead,” the first video off their recently released self-titled debut album. The video — mostly filmed “an undisclosed location somewhere in …
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One of the juiciest rap beefs in recent memory came to a very quiet end a few months back, when Snoop Dogg picked up his phone and made a private apology to fellow Dr. Dre protege Eminem, as Snoop explains on an upcoming episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now …
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