At the end of September, TikTok trumpeted a pair of milestones. First, the company announced it had over a billion monthly active users worldwide. Second, the wildly popular short-form video app-turned-cultural juggernaut was preparing its first-ever NFT collection, diving into a buzzy new technology that would allow any well-heeled consumer …
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The Targaryens are back with their trusty dragons in the new teaser for the Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon. The new show is based on George R.R. Martin’s 2018 book, Fire and Blood, a companion to the main A Song of Ice and Fire series that …
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Who’s more culturally relevant: Taylor Lautner from theTwilightfranchise, or Jar-Jar Binks fromThe Phantom Menace? This is just one of the myriad questions explored by the second episode ofDon’t Let This Flop,the newRolling Stonepodcast about TikTok and internet culture, hosted by senior writers Brittany Spanos and Ej Dickson and brought to …
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Cyntoia Brown Long has a message for Chrystul Kizer, a young woman whose shoes she was in back in 2004. Both were charged with first-degree murder for killing and robbing a man — and both claim that they were sexually trafficked as teens and killed out of self-defense. “The best …
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It was one of the greatest Instagram sagas in alt-pop history: In 2018, Azealia Banks was summoned to the home Grimes shared with her partner Elon Musk so that the pair could work on music together. Things did not exactly go according to plan, though, a situation that Banks is …
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Before it even started, the 2021 Emmys seemed like it was set to put diversity on the back burner. With leading nomination totals from Ted Lasso (13), The Crown (11) and The Handmaid’s Tale (11), the ceremony promised to focus on shows with predominantly white casts (and creative teams). It …
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“Believe it or not,” Dr. Jean Milburn tells an acquaintance during Season Three of Netflix‘s high school comedy Sex Education, “I don’t think everything comes back to sex.” This is an interesting statement from Jean (Gillian Anderson), a therapist specializing in sexual relationships, who is among the most sex-positive characters …
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WASHINGTON — With a make-or-break vote looming in the Senate on a sweeping voting-rights and anti-corruption bill, President Joe Biden and his advisers have said in recent weeks that Biden will pressure wavering Democrats to support reforming the filibuster if necessary to pass the voting bill. According to three people …
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One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small — or in the case of a certain trailer that arrived on Thursday, the red one makes you enter the Matrix. Jefferson Airplane‘s “White Rabbit” has been used in film and television for decades since its release in 1967, …
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UPDATE (8/23): Pixies have decided to cancel their September tour of the United States due to concerns over the current surge in Covid cases spurred by the Delta variant. The list of canceled dates — which includes festival sets at Summerfest in Milwaukee and Riotfest in Chicago — is below. …
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