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Imagine a dazzling series of papaya orange curves, cobalt blue and black lines, all streaking across the Cumberland River into the heart of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Hear the cheers and music from the grandstands echoing throughout the city streets. Taste the fare of local food trucks. Smell the burnt rubber of screaming tires. Picture the

UPDATE (7/28): Police have arrested 20-year-old Joseph Jimenez in connection with the shooting at a California movie theater during a screening of The Forever Purge, the Corona Police Department announced. Jimenez was taken into custody Tuesday night after detectives collected witness statements and served a search warrant. During the search, the police claimed they found

In the beginning, there was a fist: five brown fingers, emerging from a yellow argyle sweater sleeve. Though one cannot see the owner of the fist’s face, nor even his upper body, everything you need to know about his emotional state is telegraphed by the strength of those five fingers, tightly clenched in ire, threatening

Robert Aaron Long — a 22-year-old Georgia man accused of killing eight people over the course of a March 16th shooting spree — has pleaded guilty to four murders Tuesday. According to CNBC, Long entered his guilty plea with the Cherokee County District Attorney and faces a recommended sentence of four consecutive life sentences without the

Break out your collection of face masks: on Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated guidelines recommending that many fully vaccinated people once again wear masks indoors. This reverses the agency’s announcement nearly three months ago that those who had received their full dose of Covid vaccine could ditch their masks

Since its inception McSweeney’s — the small, non-profit San Francisco-based publishing house founded by Dave Eggers in 1998 — has had a reputation for publishing ambitious fiction and non-fiction and crafting unusual ways to package their literary journal for its ardent subscribers and supporters. Now McSweeney’s has announced that they will release their first audio-visual

Gun violence is rampant in Washington, D.C. Fox News is pushing the idea that “pot usage” is to blame. The network is a little confused. D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee addressed the crime wave in a lengthy press conference on Friday, citing a number of contributing factors, including the pandemic, too many guns in the

Mario Batali, his former partner Joe Bastianich and the company they used to run together will pay $600,000 to at least 20 women and men who were sexually harassed while working at Batali and Bastianich’s Manhattan restaurants, The New York Times reports. The settlement was announced Friday, July 23rd, by New York State attorney general

Of all the folks ambling around the folksy-cute rock-climbing community of Squamish, British Columbia, which is about 65 miles north of the U.S. border, no one is more perplexed by the unsolved 2017 murder of a onetime neo-Nazi troublemaker lunatic named Davis Wolfgang Hawke than his last girlfriend, Eva McLennan, who knew him only by

The calamitous Fyre Festival raised the bar for festival failures, from the sweaty cheese and limp salads that were apparently passed off as meals to the quickly disseminated insider reports of the organizers being in so over their heads that they forgot simple things — like requiring workers to sign non-disclosure agreements. But Fyre is

Rodney Alcala, the serial killer known as “The Dating Game Killer” after he appeared on the popular game show in 1978 amid his killing spree, has died at the age of 77. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced that Alcala died early Saturday morning at a hospital near Corcoran, California; at the time

In June 2021, pop singer Billie Eilish put out the music video to her newly released single, “Lost Cause.” The video features Eilish at a sleepover with a handful of her girl friends. As a promotion for the video, she posted a set of photos of behind-the-scenes moments with the caption: “I love girls.” Soon

The 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, are officially underway (in 2021, of course) with the lighting of the cauldron at National Stadium. Now, the best athletes in the world will vie for medals across 339 sporting events over the next 16 days. With so many stories swirling around, it can be hard to decide

California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing is suing video game giant Activision Blizzard over allegations of sexual harassment. Activision Blizzard is one of the largest and most valuable video game companies in the industry and is the developer of popular titles including Call of Duty, Overwatch, World of Warcraft, and the Candy Crush Saga.

Early on a February morning in 1922, silent film director William Desmond Taylor was found dead from a gunshot wound in his apartment in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles. The murder, which remains unsolved, became a national scandal in an already depraved era of the movie industry. At least four people reportedly confessed to

Last week, the Justice Department’s Inspector General released a scathing report detailing just how badly the FBI botched the major child abuse case involving Larry Nassar, former doctor for the USA Gymnastics national team and Michigan State University accused of abusing dozens of young patients in his care across several states. The report says the

Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty to 11 charges of rape and sexual assault in connection to the disgraced producer’s Los Angeles trial, which began Wednesday following Weinstein’s extradition from a New York prison to Southern California. In a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday, the now-wheelchair-bound Weinstein — already serving a 23-year prison sentence — pleaded not

Wearing earplugs, a swimsuit, and a belt made of foam rubber that cradled the small of her back, Wally Funk stretched out in the water, spread-eagle, and got comfortable. Then it hit her: She couldn’t feel a thing. She splashed some water on her face — still nothing.  Prior to getting into the sensory deprivation

Constant readers are about to become constant listeners as Stephen King enters the final frontier of storytelling: the podcast. King has partnered with Audio Up Media, iHeart Media, and producer Lee Metzger (The Voice) to create Strawberry Spring, a new show based on a tale from his 1978 short story collection Night Shift. The series