Month: April 2024

Thom Yorke – Confidenza OSTXL Recordings Thom Yorke’s latest soundtrack opens with “The Big City,” an electro-symphonic slumber of synth bleeps and vocal blips. The album ends with “On the Ledge,” which evokes the sublime nightmare of a free-jazz brass band strutting down a portal into hell. If you could time travel back to the strained,
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Share Tweet Share Share Email In honor of Lesbian Visibility Week, we’ve put together a list of Hollywood’s iconic faces who boldly embraced their truth in 2024. Let’s dive in! Celebrating the Icons of Change In a powerful wave of self-revelation, celebrated women from various facets of the entertainment industry chose to embrace their queer
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On Thursday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for and against Donald Trump’s claims of absolute presidential immunity. The good news is that the Court appeared unlikely to just completely rule in his favor, agree that he should not face prosecution for anything he did in office, and kill the federal election case against him.
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There’s a rebus in this weekend’s Consequence Crossword, “Phish Food.” Inspired by Phish, who expand on the studio versions of songs in their live shows, a rebus expands a small number of crossword squares to contain more than one letter. Here’s an example chosen in honor of Ben Kaye, who came up with the pencil
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL
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Lori Gimelshteyn, executive director of the Colorado Parent Advocacy Network. Photo: KUSA screenshot Colorado’s Supreme Court has said that an anti-LGBTQ+ “parents’ rights” group may start collecting signatures to approve Ballot Measure 142, a proposed law that would require schools to out transgender students to their potentially unsupportive parents. The group now has until August
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Share Tweet Share Share Email In a revealing interview with Rolling Stone for her May 2024 cover story, Billie Eilish shares how her new song “Lunch” became a pivotal moment in her journey toward understanding her sexuality.  The song will feature on her upcoming third studio album, Hit Me Hard and Soft. Unpacking “Lunch”: A Song of Self-Discovery Billie Eilish,
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Tupac Shakur’s estate has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Drake for using AI-generated vocals of the late MC in his Kendrick Lamar diss track. That sentence is full of puzzling behavior, so we’re back with a puzzling Consequence Crossword. I’m going through some housekeeping around crossword scheduling next, so feel free to scroll past this to
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Last year, I became a first-time parent to identical twin girls. As my nurse/midwife will tell you, I’m someone who needs all of the information and data. But because I was living with the very real possibility that
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A deaf and mute dude violently kills people in the off kilter society of Boy Kills World, which feels like an alternative and more ambitious R-rated version of The Hunger Games. Bill Skarsgaard plays the scrawny and brutal fighter known only as Boy, who has been trained his entire life to take down the evil
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Charley Crockett – $10 CowboySon of Davy/Thirty Tigers There’s always someone who’s shit out of luck in Charley Crockett’s songs, but the desperation is especially palpable on $10 Cowboy, his 13th studio album in nine years.  He populates these songs with the usual assortment of ramblers and gamblers, roustabouts and rounders, but these hard-livin’ folks
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