2+ week, 6+ day ago   (153+ words) Fans of President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again movement went berserk on Sunday after country music star Kacey Musgraves called on her fans to donate to an organization that helps children whose parents have been deported. Musgraves stopped her…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (396+ words) The first time I was the internet’s “main character” was way back in 2003. I deserved it, as much as anyone can. Still seething from 9/11, I’d blogged something very stupid and wrong about violent anti-war protests. The internet was a much…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (157+ words) A tour bus carrying the rock band Buckcherry was involved in a fatal crash on a highway in South Carolina early Friday morning, reports said. No one in the band was hurt, but a person who had stopped on the…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago   (228+ words) Things could’ve proved deadly for the rock band Buckcherry. On Friday, August 21st, in South Carolina, they got into a horrifying multi-car crash involving their tour bus. Thankfully, all members of the group walked away unscathed from the incident. However, not…...

3+ week, 16+ hour ago   (1387+ words) It began with such high hopes. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex landed in Hollywood in 2020, flush with a multimillion-dollar Netflix deal and a promise that the duo, scorned by the royal family, would make a slew of inspirational programming....

3+ week, 19+ hour ago   (620+ words) In the film and television business, writers are on the front line. We are often the first hired and the first to experience the harms of studio consolidation, which then impacts the projects that get made and what ultimately reaches…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (869+ words) Andrea Bajani, a winner of Italy’s most prestigious literary prize, was back in Rome for the summer when he slid into a seat in front of a weeping woman on a local bus. Like any good novelist, he eavesdropped. The…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (456+ words) THE BREAKUP, by Kurt Andersen Novels set in the future aren’t exclusively the province of science fiction; anxious times tend to generate anxious, cautionary literary dystopias, and when was the last time you can remember not feeling anxious?...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (677+ words) Honestly, it was probably the traffic. Have you ever tried to get into, or out of, Montecito in the summer, or virtually any other time of year? The 101 has long been a bottleneck nightmare as it approaches Santa Barbara and…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (788+ words) “Take a sip of water now,” Soulja Boy tells the crowd after performing his booty-shaking anthem “Donk.” He still has an hour to go. Much of the audience looks like clones of the star rapper, dressed in extremely oversized white…...