Leonardo DiCaprio, Camila Cabello, Cher, and a host of other celebrities have lent their voices to a campaign urging global leaders to bolster efforts to fight climate change. The action is being spearheaded by the Right Here, Right Now Climate Alliance and its partner, United Nations Human Rights, and the launch coincides with the ongoing
Lifestyle
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers will miss his team’s next game Sunday after testing positive for Covid-19. However, it’s the situation surrounding Rodgers’ diagnosis that has stirred up controversy among NFL fans, as the quarterback apparently previously misled reporters about his vaccination status. Vaccinated players who test positive are eligible to return to their
Lawyers for three Danny Masterson rape accusers and the Church of Scientology spent more than an hour sparring before a trio of appellate court judges Tuesday amid their ongoing battle over whether the women’s stalking lawsuit against the church must be diverted to an internal Scientology tribunal. The long-awaited hearing stemmed from a lower court
Fans of early-1990s tabloid culture, rejoice: John F. Kennedy Jr. is set to return. The lush-haired scion and former George publisher is set to make an appearance at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, where his father was assassinated in 1963, for a special announcement this afternoon. The fact that the former People Sexiest Man Alive has been dead
Chrissie Carnell Bixler was still a teen when she visited the Church of Scientology’s Celebrity Centre International in Los Angeles for the first time. It was 1997, and her then-boyfriend Danny Masterson led the way to the revivalist replica of a 17th-century Normandy castle straight down the hill from the Hollywood sign. Before they arrived,
Bored Ape Yacht Club became internet rock stars by making NFTs of grungy simians that aren’t just viral images — they’re tickets to a whole new lifestyle November 1, 2021 Just last year, the four thirtysomethings behind Bored Ape Yacht Club — a collection of 10,000 NFTs, which house cartoon primates and unlock the virtual
A wannabe actor has been charged with vandalizing the George Floyd statue that was recently installed in New York’s Union Square Park. The NYPD Hate Crimes division announced earlier this week that Micah Beals — who, under the stage name Micah Femia, had small roles on TV shows like Parks and Recreation and CSI: NY
Daniel Hernandez — also known as the rapper Tekashi 69, or simply 6ix9ine — has been free from prison and home confinement for a little over a year, after striking a deal with law enforcement officials for ratting out his fellow gang members. Now, he’s advertising NFTs priced at hundreds of dollars a pop and
Remains found earlier this month in California’s Yucca Valley have been identified as those of missing person Lauren Cho, a 30-year-old resident of New Jersey who had traveled across the country to start a new life. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department announced Thursday that its coroner division had positively identified the human remains to
I’m pretty much your standard Brooklyn millennial lefty mom. I buy my son dolls. I serve him outrageously overpriced plant-based chicken fingers. I don’t allow him to watch Paw Patrol, though that has less to do with how the show glorifies the cop industrial complex and more to do with the fact that it blows (with
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for use in children ages 5-11, setting the stage for the age group to begin receiving their first doses as early as next week. The Centers for Disease Control is expected to meet Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss offering a recommendation. If they do, kids
Dave Chappelle and Joe Rogan’s arena show in New Orleans, announced in June and later delayed after Rogan contracted COVID-19 in August, finally took place Thursday night. Both comedians made damn sure everybody was aware of the hot water they’ve found themselves in — Rogan for his spurious vaccine alternative claims, and, more recently, Chappelle
Facebook, like a handful of cigarette, agrochemical, and private-mercenary conglomerates before it, has changed its corporate name in the midst of a PR crisis: On Thursday, Oct. 28, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the tech giant’s parent company would now be known as Meta. Zuckerberg announced the name change at the end of his keynote
During These Uncertain Times (TM), celebrities have been trying to one-up each other by competing over who can post their most problematic opinions about the Covid-19 vaccine, thereby ensuring rapid cancellation. The latest to join the fray of freshly canceled anti-vax celebrities like Nicki Minaj, Offset and Victoria’s Secret model Doutzen Kroes is Penny the
The long-awaited drive to inoculate 28 million children against Covid-19 could begin on Nov. 4, medical experts tell Rolling Stone. Pfizer has 15 million children’s shots—which contain one-third of the dose given to adults and kids 12 and over—ready to ship to private practices, hospitals, pharmacies and other providers across the country the moment the
Noodle the Pug has jumped the shark. The 13-year-old dog has become known globally as a bellwether for the national mood, thanks to his owner Jonathan Graziano making TikToks determining whether it will be a “Bones Day” — i.e., if Noodle stands up on his mat — or a No Bones Day (if he falls
One of the more controversial things Donald Trump ever said was that there were “very fine people on both sides” of the violent protests that erupted during a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017. (Nineteen were injured and one was killed that day when a white nationalist named James Fields plowed his Dodge
A lawyer for Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman argued that the drug kingpin deserves a new trial, primarily based on a report of alleged jury misconduct. Guzman’s lawyer, Marc Fernich, made his argument before a three-panel judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals Monday, October 25th. The appeal had been in the works essentially since
A Georgia man is facing a wire fraud charge for using Covid-19 relief money to allegedly purchase over $55,000 worth of Pokémon cards. Prosecutors in the Southern District of Georgia accused Vinath Oudomsine of lying on an application for an Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL), one of a handful of small relief programs overseen by
The director of Rust has spoken out on the moment he witnessed Alec Baldwin fatally shoot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the movie’s set in New Mexico. Hutchins died during the movie’s production last week after Baldwin fired a prop gun that had been wrongly declared safe for use, while director Joel Souza was hospitalized. In a