Intense, frightening, revelatory: Without losing the melancholy tone and pointedly un-stylized writing that has characterized this season from the jump, True Detective hit a new high with this week’s episode, aptly titled “Hunters in the Dark.” It follows our suite of protagonists — retired cop Warren Hays, his old partner …
Read More »Parkland: One Year Later
On Valentine’s Day 2018, a 19-year-old ex-student took an Uber to his old high school; he walked across the campus and into a three-story building, where he killed 17 people and injured 17 more. It was the sixth of 24 shootings in U.S. schools last year, but the incident at …
Read More »Watch 'Documentary Now!' Spoof 'Wild Wild Country' With 'Batsh-t Valley'
Ahead of its Season 3 premiere on February 20th, Documentary Now! has offered up its full-episode spoof of Netflix’s Wild Wild Country, dubbed Batshit Valley. Owen Wilson, as cult leader Father Ra-Shawbard, and Michael Keaton, as FBI agent Bill Doss, star in the two-part episode that mimics the look and …
Read More »Felice Brothers Announce New Album 'Undress' With Politically Charged Title Track
The Felice Brothers have announced details ofUndress, the follow-up to 2016’sLife in the Dark,dueMay 3rd. The upstate New York band offer a preview of the record with the album-opening title track, which is composed of dark, dizzying impressionistic images — “trigger happy deputees” and “conservatives in lobster bibs” — taken …
Read More »21 Savage Was Scheduled to Perform at Grammys Prior to ICE Arrest
Ahead of a surprise arrest byU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Sunday in Atlanta, 21 Savage was scheduled to perform in one of the highest profile settings of his career: the Grammys. A source close to Post Malone‘s camp confirmed that the rapper was set to appear with Post during …
Read More »Rivers Cuomo's Grammy Daydream
This weekend, Weezer will attend the 61st annual Grammy Awards in their hometown of L.A. They’re up for Best Rock Album for 2017’s Pacific Daydream, and whether or not they win, their presence at the awards show underscores the strange but true fact that these alt-rock veterans are at a …
Read More »What Will Your Future Look Like Without Local News?
It’s not easy to witness the watchdog of our democracy being sadistically euthanized. Another week, another wave of massive journalism layoffs. And with it, another round of hand-wringing and legitimate cries about what we stand to lose when newspapers — especially local newsrooms — are gutted. As many have pointed …
Read More »Willie Nelson Readies Hemp-Infused Coffee
Since launching his signature cannabis brand Willie’s Reserve in 2015, Willie Nelson has slowly expanded his reach into the burgeoning industry. This week, the Country Music Hall of Fame member and pot advocate announced his new Willie’s Remedy, a line of health and wellness products that kicks off with hemp-infused …
Read More »10 Best Movies of Sundance 2019
We came, we saw, we occasionally got altitude sickness and we watched a shitload of movies — this is what we do every January when we head out to Park City, Utah, for the Sundance Film Festival, that annual mixer of hopeful first-time filmmakers, indie-cinema veterans, boundary-tweaking visual artists, industry …
Read More »See Joe Pesci Make Rare Screen Appearance in Google's 'Home Alone' Ad
Joe Pesci makes a rare on-screen appearance in a new and meta Google commercial that sees the actor watching the company’s viral Home Alone ad. In December, Google dropped the Macaulay Culkin-starring ad that updated Home Alone with a grown-up and tech-savvy Kevin McCallister. The commercial has been viewed on …
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