“Exhilarating, joyful, and of course pretty scary”: Musicians on the pressures of returning to the stage
For the previous 12 months and a few change, touring hasn’t actually been a factor. Musicians who relied on performing music to, nicely, exist, crawled into their metaphorical gig baggage and slid themselves underneath the mattress.
The assorted shut-downs that passed off…
The assorted shut-downs that passed off…
By Kelly McClure
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“Make-up for males” wants to defy the gender binary — but does it really?
By Melissa Pandika
More than ever, people are giving the gender binary the middle finger. As millennials and Gen Z increasingly embrace a fluid understanding of gender, brands are taking notes, including those in an industry that’s been traditionally, and heavily,… -
How can I have a Hot Vax Summer when my family in India is still struggling?
By Angel Kumari
Another day yields yet another beach post filled with grinning unmasked faces, crashing waves, and clear blue skies captioned #hotvaxsummer. Of course, I double tap because after skipping summer 2020, everyone’s vacation is worth celebrating. In… -
Willow Smith’s latest interview proves “white individuals’s music” doesn’t exist, but racism does
By Keith Nelson Jr.
Trying to box Willow Smith into a hairstyle, let alone a genre of music, just leads to her cutting her hair off in defiance and rocking out however she wants. In a recent cover story interview for V Magazine, Smith opened up about how her creative… -
‘Loki’ is Marvel’s best show yet, because it doesn’t feel like a Marvel show
By Carrie Wittmer
“There’s a fork in every road, yet the wrong path always taken.” This is just one of Loki’s many poetic metaphors in the series premiere of Loki on Disney+. Loki is, of course, referring to why he should be the king of Earth (personally I would love… -
The author of a new Prince book explains how he discovered a new side of the artist’s genius
By Jack Riedy
Purple Rain made Prince a superstar, but he soon grew tired of the material and brought the accompanying tour to a halt in April 1985, less than a year after the album’s debut. Journalist and documentarian Duane Tudahl’s new book Prince and the… -
When will hip-hop begin defending Black girls?
By Shamira Ibrahim
In 1977, the Combahee River Collective, a Black feminist lesbian socialist group, wrote in a press release: “Black girls are inherently precious, that our liberation is a necessity not as an adjunct to any individual else’s however due to our want as…
Separation anxiety is real for couples who quarantined together. Here’s how to handle it
By Tracey Anne Duncan
As a person who lives alone and was single for most of the pandemic, I was often envious of my cohabitating friends. They looked so safe and nested in their pandemic pillow forts. But now the pandemic is, for all intents and purposes, over for the…
How to verify your houseplant obsession is not killing the planet
By AJ Dellinger
Millennials may not be having youngsters (a number of financial collapses, a worldwide pandemic, and looming local weather disaster aren’t precisely horny), however they’re nonetheless taking over the function of caregivers. The recipients of that care simply occur to be houseplants.…
Add local weather change to the lengthy listing of causes the U.S. ought to legalize weed
By AJ Dellinger
There are many causes to legalize weed, from deescalating the drug warfare that has wrongly incarcerated tens of hundreds of individuals to increasing the flexibility to review and perceive the results of the drug. However here is yet one more: to guard the…
An all-Black rodeo will air on national TV for the first time ever this Juneteenth
By Jewel Wicker
Valeria Howard-Cunningham has been to countless Black rodeos throughout the past three decades; first with her husband, the late Lu Vason, and then as the head of the touring rodeo he founded to highlight the legacy of Black cowboys and cowgirls.…
GOP Congressman says the quiet part loud about taking back the House
By Rafi Schwartz
First term Congressman Ronny Jackson’s road to the House of Representatives has been, shall we say, a strange one. A longtime member of the White House medical unit, Jackson eventually worked his way up to becoming the primary physician for both…
An entire police unit just disbanded after a single officer was charged with assaulting a protester
By Rafi Schwartz
At the height of last summer’s criminal, social, and racial justice protests, Portland, Oregon stood as one of the most intense epicenters of both activist rage and violent law enforcement responses in the country. Now, nearly one year later, a…
Can this TikTok pattern actually banish pimples and physique odor?
By Melissa Pandika
Should you’ve spent any time on wellness TikTok, you’ve in all probability seen various movies of individuals swearing by a complement often known as liquid chlorophyll, claiming that it cleared up their pores and skin and/or their stank. They usually squeeze a number of drops of…
Snapchat quietly retires its “speed filter,” which was linked to lethal automotive crashes
By Kara Weisenstein
What took so lengthy, Snapchat? On Thursday, NPR reported that the app is phasing out a “speed filter” that lets customers monitor and share how briskly they’re transferring. Unsurprisingly, it has been linked to various lethal or near-fatal automotive crashes since…
The fast food industry’s predatory marketing blatantly targets Black and Latinx youth
By Taneasha White
There’s some jarring new research out about how far fast food companies will go in order to reach their target audiences. Data from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut just revealed how racist there’s brands’…
A Philly foster agency can continue discriminating against LGBTQ families, SCOTUS rules
By Rafi Schwartz
In a surprise decision on Thursday by the United States Supreme Court, all nine Justices agreed that Philadelphia’s Catholic Social Services agency may continue its contract with the city to help place children in foster homes, even after the group…
Capitol insurrectionists are tired of BLM and Antifa getting credit for their work
By AJ Dellinger
Within hours of Trump supporters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in an attempt to interrupt the electoral vote count and upend the 2020 Presidential election results, conspiracy theories started bubbling up to dismiss reality. Some claimed that…
COVID-19 antiviral pills could be our reality by the end of this year
By Tracey Anne Duncan
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the biggest challenges is getting vulnerable infected from testing to treatment fast enough to save their lives, but we just don’t have any quick and easy treatments designed to treat the virus just yet. A…
Conservatives are having a meltdown over Megan Rapinoe replacing the Victoria’s Secret Angels
By Kara Weisenstein
Conservatives are getting super bent out of shape over the fact that Victoria’s Secret hired Megan Rapinoe to sell bras to women who aren’t supermodels, and it’s pretty funny to witness. “What PR company urged this rubbish? Girls wish to look…
“Exhilarating, joyful, and of course pretty scary”: Musicians on the pressures of returning to the stage
By Kelly McClure
For the previous 12 months and a few change, touring hasn’t actually been a factor. Musicians who relied on performing music to, nicely, exist, crawled into their metaphorical gig baggage and slid themselves underneath the mattress.
The assorted shut-downs that passed off…
The assorted shut-downs that passed off…
“She’s gonna disappear”: A GOP congressional candidate threatened to sic Russian hitmen on his opponent
By Rafi Schwartz
rule of thumb, I really feel, is that if you happen to’re ever fascinated about making a run for federal workplace, it is best to in all probability ask your self whether or not that point you threatened to merc your opponent with an Japanese European loss of life squad will assist or damage your…
For the third time, SCOTUS has saved Obamacare
By Rafi Schwartz
The Supreme Courtroom of america on Thursday as soon as once more struck down a problem to the Inexpensive Care Act which, if profitable, would have yanked medical insurance away from thousands and thousands of Individuals who depend on the Obama-era laws for…
AI created the “very best” non-dairy milk and the ingredients are pretty bizarre
By Tracey Anne Duncan
The future is officially here. While my robot vacuum cleans my house, I can safely visit my favorite coffee shop — without an N95 mask — and order a vegan latte with my choice of non-dairy milks. I never care which vegan milk is offered because,…
The Biden administration just re-extended federal protections to trans students
By Rafi Schwartz
One of the defining through-lines of the Trump administration was the robust disenfranchisement of transgender people, whether students simply trying to use the bathroom or aspiring service members trying to join the armed forces. But since coming…
Trevor Noah says that canceling Chrissy Teigen misses the purpose
By Kara Weisenstein
Nobody on late evening has larger vary than Trevor Noah. The host of The Every day Present might be extremely goofy at instances, like an overgrown youngster. However when he addresses probably the most complicated problems with our time, Noah turns into the neatest grownup within the…
Separation anxiety is real for couples who quarantined together. Here’s how to handle it
By Tracey Anne Duncan
As a person who lives alone and was single for most of the pandemic, I was often envious of my cohabitating friends. They looked so safe and nested in their pandemic pillow forts. But now the pandemic is, for all intents and purposes, over for the…
Los Angeles will now take its turn prosecuting convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein
By Kara Weisenstein
Justice is a dish best served on both coasts. Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein will be extradited to California to stand trial for 11 counts of criminal sexual assault, a New York judge ruled this week. The predator and former movie mogul is…
Greta Thunberg calls out G7 leaders for their frivolous and wasteful meeting on climate change
By AJ Dellinger
Over the weekend, the leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) nations met to discuss a number of pressing issues, though perhaps none more important than climate change. While the parties left with renewed promises to address the climate crisis — though…
Watch a information anchor patiently clarify to a Capitol insurrectionist which political workplace he is operating for
By Rafi Schwartz
You in all probability do not know the title Jason Riddle, however you would possibly acknowledge his face: He is the man who famously stole a bottle of wine from a Capitol Hill workplace and chugged it in the course of the Jan. 6 revolt, incomes himself a small little spot…