In some ways, a horror-themed album seems like the farthest thing you might expect from the Glasgow band Chvrches, known for iridescent synths and lead singer Lauren Mayberry ’s practically elfin, perennially chipper voice. But on their fourth LP, Screen Violence, Mayberry and band members Iain Cook and Martin Doherty …
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When Sen. Susan Collins announced her intention to vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh despite concerns that he would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, she assured the American public that he respected precedent too much. Amidst her 2018 speech from the Senate floor, she included this nugget: …
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One day when Graham Nash was 10 years old, the police knocked on his family home in Salford, England, and said there was a problem with the camera Nash’s father had recently gifted him. “They told him that the camera had been stolen, and who was it that sold it …
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On a busy street in downtown Juárez, people gather around a house playing music. Some of them carry flowers, a few hold photos, and others use their phones to take pictures of the house with the music so loud it drowns out the noise of the early Saturday afternoon traffic. …
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Some Florida parents are breathing a sigh of relief at the news that a judge has overturned Governor Ron DeSantis‘ ban on mask mandates in schools. Leon County Circuit Judge John C. Cooper sided with parents who sued the Republican governor and the state’s education department, saying the ban violates …
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“How y’all doing? I don’t know how y’all been vaccinating, but I’m gonna show y’all how I have been,” says the man in the video. He pulls out a small needle and a syringe, followed by a box with a horse on it. He puts one cc of the medication …
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Ron Jeremy has been indicted on over 30 sexual assault charges involving 21 victims, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón announced Wednesday, August 25th. The indictments were returned by a grand jury last Thursday, August 19th, but the indictment wasn’t unsealed until Wednesday. Jeremy also appeared in court on August …
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E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg had one inspiration in mind as he prepared to record his part for “Born in the U.S.A.” back in 1982: the late Charlie Watts‘ crisp playing on the Rolling Stones‘ “Street Fighting Man.” “When Bruce pulled out that riff, I went right to ‘Street …
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The 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, are almost here, bringing international sport back into the spotlight just a few short weeks after the Tokyo Olympics ended. Over 4,000 athletes will descend upon the Japanese capital for 12 days of sport with Paralympians old and new ready to compete on …
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Standing on a makeshift stage surrounded by shrubbery, the smell of cedar chips lacing the humid summer air, Laura Jane Grace addressed the sold-out crowd that had shambled through the industrial wasteland of the Philadelphia outskirts to see her play a pretty unconventional venue: Four Seasons Total Landscaping. “I’ve performed …
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