WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court‘s five conservatives ruled Thursday that federal courts have no role to play in striking down politically rigged congressional maps that deny equal representations to citizens of a given state. The court’s majority opinion, responding to two lawsuits challenging gerrymandered maps in Maryland and North Carolina, …
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Feist has announced a new podcast series called Pleasure Studies, which is co-presented by Talkhouse and Earios. The storytelling series will premiere on July 9th with a new episode available each week via podcast services. Each episode will examine different themes Feist explored on her 2017 album, Pleasure. In a …
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Mumford & Sons will continue their tour in support of their 2019 album Deltathis fall, with newly announced North American tour dates. The band will play August 3rd at Los Angeles’ Banc of California Stadium, and will perform 20 more shows in the U.S. and Mexico (including three nights at …
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Friday night on HBO’s Real Time, Bill Maher deemed that the entire Democratic field would likely lose a presidential race against President Donald Trump and that they need to recruit someone who has not expressed interest in running. “One night, after self-medicating,” Maher said, “a name appeared in the vapor …
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Chucky lives! At least until the numbing script of this Child’s Play reboot puts the screws to him. Remember the 1988 original that spawned six sequels of killer doll mayhem? Despite the uneven quality of the series, creator Don Mancini livened things up with tacky fun and scares to make …
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Tucker Beathard gets his revenge on an ex who dumps him in the humorous new video for “Better Than Me.” Released earlier in 2019, the song appears on a new EP alongside “Find Me Here.” “Better Than Me” nods to Beathard’s Nineties rock influences, with a huge, arena-ready chorus and …
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Sharon Van Etten waltzes through the Empire State Plaza in Albany, New York in her atmospheric new video for “No One’s Easy to Love,” a song off her latest album Remind Me Tomorrow, released earlier this year. The clip was directed by Katherine Dieckmann, who also shot the cover art …
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“Side Hustle” is a recurring column in which staff writer Charles Holmes reviews celebrity and celebrity-adjacent products. You can read his previous entry, on Rick Ross’s hair care and grooming line, here. If the mood takes you, you can also read his review of Ariana Grande’s Cloud Machiatto here. Celebrity: …
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A review of “Tell-Tale Hearts,” this week’s Big Little Lies, coming up just as soon as I invent the nutritional french fry… The Season Two premiere, “What Have They Done?,” was an at times ungainly creature. It had to expend a lot of effort reopening a story that had been …
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Brantley Gilbert offers a personal message to his son in the new song “Man That Hung the Moon.” A well-timed release ahead of the Father’s Day holiday, the ballad highlights a softer side of the rough-hewn, tattooed country singer. “You’re gonna think I hung the moon/you’re gonna think I made …
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