Real talk—Quentin Tarantino has been Single-White-Female-ing Bruce Lee with his films since at least Kill Bill: Vol. 1.
Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week talks about Morrissey.
Randall Park’s man scruff is ready…to steal yo’ girl.
This week: Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, L.A.’s Finest, The Bold Type, Wanda Sykes: Not Normal, Chicago Med, What/If, Doom Patrol, She’s Gotta Have It, Killing Eve
Behind every successful band there’s a solid management team taking care of all the details. In The Maine’s case, their team at 8123 is supportive, creative, and made up of only two people.
Not every band can release a song on a Wednesday, then have everybody in the audience scream each word back at them live on the following Friday. And not every band can put together a festival in their hometown and bring in fans from around the world in the middle of January. But The Maine is not like every band. “We’ve been so fortunate and lucky to experience what we have,” says vocalist John O’Callaghan. We’re sitting in a building inside Civic Space Park in Phoenix, AZ on the second day of 8123 Fest. Through the windows, This Century plays… Read more »
It’s Boxing Day so Geek Girl Riot’s going ten rounds with the latest superheroes: Titans, Runaways, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Once Upon a Deadpool, Aquaman, the Elseworlds crossover event, and The Umbrella Academy!
Does the president have a thing for authoritarian leaders? Does he wish he were one himself, or does he just play one on TV? We think DJT is trying to be a dictator and make the case. Also, Midterms are here and It’s News to Us recaps the latest. Plus, a kid gets poop while trick-or-treating. Ummm…trick? Sources (raw link dump): https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/us/politics/nbc-caravan-advertisement.html http://fortune.com/2017/04/05/donald-trump-middle-east-dictator-syria-egypt-president-sisi https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/15/trump-dictators-authoritarians-strongmen http://www2.philly.com/philly/columnists/will_bunch/trump-is-becoming-a-dictator-pardons-lies-obstruction-of-justice-20180603.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/02/politics/donald-trump-lies/index.html https://www.newsweek.com/trump-family-members-have-gotten-much-richer-president-moved-white-house https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/us/politics/georgia-elections-kemp-voters-hack.html https://www.thedailybeast.com/if-the-republicans-win-tuesday-the-reason-will-be-simple-they-cheated https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/complaints-allege-cruz-kemp-benefit-from-faulty-voting-machines-that-change-dem-ballots-to-gop/ https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/05/voting-machine-errors-texas-georgia-2018-elections-midterms https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Police-Poop-for-trick-or-treater-a-mistake-499312951.html
The world wouldn’t be complete if there weren’t conspiracy theories running amok.
Titans takes all the aspects of teen drama: mystery-solving, supernatural hi-jinks, superheroes, and puts it all in a bag of fail and sadness…
