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As art critic-cum-biographer Blake Gopnik lays out in this brilliantly granular, not un-critical 976 page hagiography, the man born Andrew Warhola branded “pop art” in many forms: painting, sculpture, photography, filmmaking, sound recording, TV broadcasting, magazine and book publishing, advertising, media appearances, persona creation. His influence still blares on all …

Ramsey Orta — who shot video of Eric Garner’s 2014 arrest that lead to death by police chokehold — was released from prison on May 28th. Orta’s fiancée, Deja Richardson, confirmed the news to Rolling Stone via email; a Department of Corrections and Community Supervision spokesperson also confirmed his release. …

UPDATE: The three men arrested and charged with the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery were indicted by a grand jury on malice and felony murder charges, Cobb District Attorney Joyette M. Holmes announced Wednesday. “This is another positive step, another great step for finding justice for Ahmaud, for finding justice …

Sean Penn’s CORE praises Los Angeles’ guardian angels — those on the ground administering COVID-19 tests — in a new PSA that reiterates that “testing saves lives.” On March 30th, CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort) opened its first coronavirus testing site in Los Angeles; since that time, CORE now oversees …

Famed anthropologist, conservationist, and activist Jane Goodall should be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the start of her field work with chimpanzees in Tanzania. Instead, like the rest of the world, she’s practicing social isolation at home in England. She recently wrote an op-ed in Slate that correctly points out …

By the time Stacy Seebode was let go from her job as Chef de Partie at New York’s L’Appart restaurant last Monday, she had already spent the week fielding panicked calls and texts from restaurant industry peers around the country. In Washington state, which was slightly ahead of New York …

For years, a man named Joseph Maldonado-Passage ran a roadside zoo in Oklahoma that specialized in exhibiting big cats, particularly tigers. He sold himself as Joe Exotic, the “Tiger King,” and that was just the first of many eccentricities that comprised the mullet-boasting, gun-wielding zookeeper. He was also a polygamist, …

Gun and ammunitions stores are reportedly seeing an increase in sales as fears about the coronavirus pandemic mount, according to The Associated Press. A story published Monday detailed long lines and empty shelves at gun stores across the country. Hard data and actual sales numbers won’t be available until next …

Vaccines are crucial to preventing major childhood illnesses. This is a fact that is not in dispute within the established medical community, and one that should be universally acknowledged. And yet, according to a recent Gallup survey, support for vaccination is decreasing, particularly among parents with younger children. According to …

In Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 blockbuster, Pacific Rim, the visionary director foresaw the year 2020 as a high-stakes battle between technology and mankind, with soldiers piloting flying mechas in an attempt to defeat skyscraper-sized robots threatening to destroy humanity. Now that the decade has turned, del Toro’s vision of flying …