Month: June 2021

Over the past decade, Liz Phair’s work has served as a key model for a rising wave of young, female, rock-adjacent singer-songwriters. Yet during that same period, the 1990s indie-rock feminist icon released no new songs of her own. Yes, she was busy raising a teenager and scoring TV shows, but she was also burned out after a series of business ordeals and backlashes. First, there was the outcry against her “going pop” when she ended up (inadvertently) stuck in a major-label contract. Later, paradoxically, she was slammed again for wreaking anti-pop havoc with her self-released 2010 album of outtakes and music-biz-satirizing comedy tracks, Funstyle. “And He Slayed Her,” backhanding former Capitol Records president Andy Slater, was black-belt industry-foe trolling well before ...

Sometimes, it’s better late than never. A woman in California was recently reunited with a wallet she lost in 1975. Colleen Distin, from Ventura, California, was in her early 20s and out seeing a movie at the Majestic Ventura Theater when her wallet -- containing family photos and a $200 check -- dropped out of a hole in her purse, according to the Associated Press. "I remember calling the next day when I realized it was gone," Distin told the Ventura County Star. "They said no one found it, but to call back, which I did." MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE DATED 1987 IS ACTUALLY A PRANK: REPORT However, Distin wouldn’t get it back for another 46 years, after an employee who was remodeling the historic theater found the wallet in a crawl space.  "I would have never imagined," Tom Stevens, the emp...

"Real Time" host Bill Maher closed his show on Friday night by taking aim at higher education.  "Now that graduation season has ended and we won't be spoiling anyone's big day, let's talk about what higher education in America really is: a racket that sells you a very expensive ticket to the upper-middle class," Maher began his monologue.  "President Biden's American Families Plan asks the American taxpayers to pony up hundreds of billions so that everyone can go to college and billions more for subsidized child care so that our kids can go to school while we go to school." "Now the right is calling Biden's plan ‘social engineering,’ which is over-the-top, but Biden's plan is an endorsement of a particular idea that the more time humans spend in classrooms staring at blackboards, the ...

Chrissy Teigen has dropped out of the Netflix comedy “Never Have I Ever” in the wake of her explosive cyberbullying scandal. The former supermodel had a planned voice-over role in one episode of the show’s upcoming second season, according to Variety. A spokesman for the coming-of-age series said the part is expected to be recast. Teigen’s exit comes after blowback over reports that she once encouraged model and reality TV star Courtney Stodden to take a “dirt nap.” Stodden, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, recently told The Daily Beast that Teigen had encouraged them to kill themselves in private Twitter messages when they were just 16 years old. “She wouldn’t just publicly tweet about wanting me to take ‘a dirt nap’ but would privately DM me and...

CLEVELAND (AP) — One of the stars of the popular Nickelodeon children’s show “Drake & Josh” faces criminal charges regarding a girl he had met online and who attended his 2017 concert in Ohio when she was 15. Jared “Drake” Bell, 34, pleaded not guilty on Thursday in a Cleveland courtroom to a felony charge of attempted endangering children and a misdemeanor charge of disseminating matter harmful to juveniles. “All facts will be revealed in a courtroom,” Bell’s attorney Ian Friedman said Friday, declining to comment further. Bell was charged by information, which typically indicates a plea agreement has been reached. He is scheduled to appear before a judge on June 23. Tyler Sinclair, spokesperson for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley, said the girl filed a complain...

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