On the first anniversary of Folklore, Taylor Swift has shared the original and orchestral version of “The Lakes,” the bonus track from her eighth studio album. “It’s been one year since we escaped the real world together and imagined ourselves someplace simpler,” Swift wrote on social media Saturday. “With tall …
Read More »The Day 'Hot Girl Summer' Came to Congress
This story was originally published by Grist and is republished here as part of an ongoing collaboration. On Tuesday morning, Representative Sean Casten from Illinois stood on the House floor with a poster of the album art for Megan Thee Stallion’s “Hot Girl Summer” propped against a display easel beside …
Read More »Richard Branson After Virgin Galactic Flight: 'Welcome to the Dawn of a New Space Age'
UPDATE: Sir Richard Branson and his team of astronauts successfully ventured into space Sunday before returning to Earth – or Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, home of his Spaceport America — in their Unity 22 space plane, a flight that both won the billionaire space race and marked the first …
Read More »Your City Is Probably More Segregated Than It Was in 1990, New Study Shows
This story was originally published by Grist and is republished here as part of an ongoing collaboration. Picture this: two babies born on the same day, maybe even within the same hour, at the Harlem Hospital Center in New York City. One baby, born to a Black mother, goes home …
Read More »EPA Creates $50 Million Fund For Environmental Justice Initiatives
The Environmental Protection Agency announced a new $50 million fund to identify and address low-income neighborhoods and communities of color who have been disproportionately affected by climate change, pollution, and the covid-19 pandemic. The EPA said on Friday that the environmental justice initiatives will use allocated dollars from the Biden …
Read More »'Luca': Pixar's Modest, Mondo Italiano 'Little Mermaid' is Minor — and Still Breaks Your Heart
“Minor Pixar” — a bit of a loaded phrase, right? The company that’s been responsible for giving animated movies several shoves up the evolutionary scale, and setting the bar for formal heights and emotional depth in ‘toon storytelling over the last quarter century, has created its share of masterpieces. (Pixar …
Read More »See the Strokes Play Fundraiser Gig for NYC Mayoral Candidate Maya Wiley
The Strokes performed a full concert Saturday at New York’s newly renovated Irving Plaza as part of a fundraiser for mayoral candidate Maya Wiley. The exuberant benefit gig — the first show at the venue in over two years, with attendees needing to show proof of vaccination — also featured …
Read More »How to Watch 'Cruella' on Disney+ for Free
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. How well do we really know Cruella de Vil? One of most-anticipated films of the year hit big and small screens in May as Cruella, starring Oscar winner …
Read More »Cannabis Is the Latest Battlefield in the Republican War on Democracy
Ken Newburger felt like he’d been blindsided. He knew a legal challenge had been mounted against the medical cannabis ballot initiative he’d worked on last year in Mississippi. He knew the state’s Supreme Court had taken up the case. But the argument against Initiative 65 was so nonsensical that Newburger …
Read More »BTS' V on His Upcoming Mixtape, His Love of 'The Godfather,' and Being a 'Secret Member'
F rom the start, singer-songwriter-producer V was BTS‘ secret weapon. His rich, deep voice is a pleasing contrast to his fellow singers’ ever-higher high notes, and he’s not afraid to delve into full-on bedroom R&B, as on the downright sultry neo-soul track “Intro: Singularity.” With a love of jazz and …
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