Bob Ross was known for his permed hair and his sanguine PBS TV series, The Joy of Painting, where he taught art to viewers nationwide for more than a decade in the 1980s and early Nineties. But as a titillating trailer suggested last week, his career wasn’t all happy trees and clouds. The new documentary,
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Known for her young adult suspense novels including I Know What You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. Griffin, and Stranger With My Face, Lois Duncan essentially stopped writing the genre after her daughter Kaitlin Arquette was murdered in 1989. Now, there’s been a break in one of the most notorious cold cases in Albuquerque history.
Industry leaders and cultural innovators came together at the inaugural Truth Seekers Summit, a festival highlighting the work of documentary filmmakers, journalists, and activists from around the world. The celebration — presented in partnership with Showtime — featured panels, keynotes, and Q&A’s with filmmakers like Errol Morris and Stanley Nelson, as well as discussions between
The inaugural Truth Seekers Summit brought together some of the brightest minds in filmmaking, music, and current events to speak on topics ranging from the impact of misinformation in media to the evolving language of documentary filmmaking. Co-hosted by Rolling Stone and Variety in partnership with Showtime, the summit featured panels, Q&A’s, and keynote discussions
“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 into the syringe, then puts
In the wake of executive producer Mike Richards’ resignation as the new host of Jeopardy! after facing allegations of employment discrimination, the Jeopardy! powers that be decided to go with someone as interim host who seemed immune to cancellation: erstwhile Nineties fashion plate, longtime network TV sweetheart, and neuroscientist Mayim Bialik. On the surface, Bialik did
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 25th, where he pleaded not
OnlyFans said it will no longer go ahead with a planned policy change that would have banned “sexually explicit content” from the platform following a fierce backlash. “Thank you to everyone for making your voices heard,” OnlyFans wrote in a tweet on Wednesday, August 25th. “We have secured assurances necessary to support our diverse creator
In the fall of 2018, Paradise, California, a small town among the high, forested buttes at the northern end of the Central Valley, was a tinderbox. The hot summer had sucked the moisture out of the grass and the pine forest. Demon winds blew through the trees and canyons. Everyone knew that each day was
Enrique Tarrio, leader of the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys and a known federal informant, was sentenced to over five months in jail after pleading guilty to burning a Black Lives Matter banner in Washington, D.C., The Associated Press reports. Tarrio pleaded guilty to the destruction of property charge last month; he also pleaded
On Monday morning, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted full approval to the first Covid-19 vaccine — a significant milestone in the ongoing fight to end the pandemic. Eight months after issuing Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, followed by millions of shots in arms across the United States and other
California will now require proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test to attend large indoor gatherings of more than 1,000 people, according to a public memo released by state officials on Wednesday. The state previously held these restrictions for large indoor gatherings of 5,000 people or more, but officials chose to create a stricter
* Some names have been changed to protect survivors of sexual assault and abuse. Years before the secret room in the garage behind his place, years before he ran around sickening the souls of untold girls in Putnam County, New York, Howard Gombert had a jones for Rachel R.* From the day he entered her
When Jonathan Webb arrived at the 500-acre former cattle farm he purchased in 2019, it was essentially an empty green field. He bought an RV and set it up on a hill with the water tower behind him and Daniel Boone National Forest out front. When massive, earth-moving construction started the same year, Webb joked
A few days after Phil Valentine announced he had tested positive for Covid-19 on July 11th, the conservative talk-radio host wrote on Facebook that he was “doing my patriotic duty for natural herd immunity.” Valentine, whose nationally syndicated Phil Valentine Show aired on 100 stations from 2007 to 2019, had questioned the vaccines on his
More children and people under age 50 are currently hospitalized with Covid-19 than at any other time in the pandemic, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The U.S. is now seeing an average upwards of 11,000 new hospital admissions over the last week, and the country is on track to
When you’re executed in Oklahoma, the process begins 35 days before your death, according to inmate Richard Glossip. First, they take your belongings, then they transfer you to a block of four cells called Death Watch. If you’re the only one on the block, they put you in the first cell, where you’ll stay for
Following another week of surging Covid-19 infections — including early data suggesting a rise in breakthrough cases among those who are fully vaccinated — the Biden administration announced their recommendation of a booster vaccine shot in a statement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on August 18th. This announcement comes less
OnlyFans announced Thursday that the platform will begin blocking its more sexually explicit content in October. While the company will still allow their adult-content creators to post nude photographs and videos as permitted by their updated guidelines, the more pornographic material will be prohibited on the site, Bloomberg reports. OnlyFans added that the decision was
On Tuesday, August 17th, Rolling Stone hosted an exclusive screening of “Flag Day,” directed and starring Sean Penn opposite his children Dylan and Hopper. The event was hosted at the School of Visual Arts theater, and following the screening Sean and Dylan sat down for a Q&A with Rolling Stone editor Alex Morris to discuss