Новости за 20.08.2015

On Sunday, a group of male Chicago comedians attended the season premiere taping of The Steve Harvey Show in Chicago. These ten men were part of an audience of roughly 2,000 at the Ford Oriental Theatre downtown, who were all there for “What Men Really Think - The Event!” What Men Really Think, according to accounts, is that it is acceptable for thousands of them to catcall and harass 150 women onstage.

In 1972, Aretha Franklin performed a set of gospel songs inside a Los Angeles church that eventually became Amazing Grace—the biggest-selling album of her career. But Franklin wasn’t the only person recording that day. The late director Sydney Pollack took behind-the-scenes footage of Franklin’s show, and IndieWire is reporting that it’s about to be seen publicly for the first time.

Movie theater chain Regal Cinemas has begun checking the bags of all patrons entering their movie theaters, following a rash of high-profile, brutal theater shootings in the past several years. While none of the shootings occurred in a Regal theater, the company is putting security checks in place to make sure all patrons are safe.

Sheriff’s investigators will recommend that Caitlyn Jenner face a vehicular manslaughter charge for her participation in a fatal car accident in California in February, according to reports.

Tig Notaro has had a tumultuous few years. In a period of just four months in 2012, she was diagnosed with an intestinal disease and breast cancer, had a double mastectomy, dealt with her mother’s death and ended a relationship. Just three years later, she is killing it: she is the star of two separate documentaries on Netflix and Showtime, will be the subject of a Diablo Cody-penned comedy, is engaged, just adopted a new kitten and has an HBO special—Boyish Girl Interrupted—airing on Saturday, August 22. Читать дальше...

Jeb meets his adoring public.

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Weekly-ish, a pre-approved, snap-judged music guide based on our very scientific, non-subjective Yes/No rating system. There’s really no debating this, come on stop.

I mean, she’s been back, though, which all true JoJo enthusiasts already know anyway: even before she got out of her dead-end label situation via a woefully extended legal battle, she was all dropping mixtapes and Drake covers, and a month after she was #FreeJo, she dropped a little Valentine’s Day Soundcloud mixtape (#LoveJo) featuring one of the best Phil Collins covers to ever grace this green-ass earth, and a month after that I saw her at SXSW and died.

When I first set out to investigate why an intelligent person like myself continues to watch a goofy program like America’s Next Top Model, I knew the obvious reason was that it’s dumb, fun TV. But there has to be more. While watching the previous season, there was a point—several points—when I vowed to put my foot down and quit this silly mess. We’re now three episodes into Cycle 22 and it’s only gotten worse. Wednesday night’s episode featured Tyra Banks making animal noises while giving the... Читать дальше...

What doesn’t Daytona Beach, Florida (America’s cultural capital) have to offer? If you said a gun range where you can shoot and get fucked up, you would now be wrong.

Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton spoke to Black Lives Matter protestors during her campaign stop in New Hampshire last week, but don’t give her a cookie just yet. In the short conversation, the candidate who’s often described as too practiced came across relaxed and more unfiltered than normal—but still politically rehearsed, and furthermore unapologetic.

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Squirrel Girl started as a joke, a character so implausibly silly that you had to laugh at her even in her victories. But, a funny thing happened after the character got her own series: people started laughing with her.

If you’ve ever wanted to hear Patti Smith sing the names of your favorite characters from Aqua Teen Hunger Force—not Carl–your day has finally come! I know it’s a pretty niche fantasy, but really anyone can enjoy the mournful original ballad Smith performed to say goodbye to the cult show, which is ending this weekend. Grab a tissue; the way that she sings “meatwad” is just beyond.

A member of an Oklahoma-based “patriot group” became the punchline of his own racist joke when he accidentally shot himself in front of the “Muslim-free” gun store he was guarding.

Speaking of sandwiches, in wake of the recent Jared Fogle scandal, Subway has removed a strange video game that had been featured on the kids division of their website. The game was called “Jared’s Pants Dance” which allowed players to catch sandwiches and other menu items with a cartoon version of Fogle’s iconic giant denim pants. My question is, who allowed such a weird game to be made in the first place?

During a segment on Fox News that discussed a study which said Republicans were happier in their marriages compared to Democrats (by a mere 7%), co-host and former MTV Real World season 3 star Rachel Campos-Duffy said that she believed the secret to a happy, conservative marriage was due to two things: religion and sandwiches.

Nachos are awesome; on that, I believe we can all agree. They are somewhat less awesome when you have to pick a press-on nail out of them, though.

Earlier this month, the tabloids reported that hot young celebs Nick Jonas and Kendall Jenner were dating. This week, tabloids reported that they’re done. Now, a source (whose name probably rhymes with “Bris Penner”) is saying that the couple is still on—it’s just that they’re taking their fake relationship slow.

In today’s Tweet Beat, Ed and I have a very chill talk, Hillary and Bill Clinton have a moment and I have to admit that Lena Dunham is right.

There are many reasons a person might want to avoid a nightclub in Australia, but a bar owner in Melbourne named James Young has come up with a “new” one: Tinder.

The Teamsters—along with the Culinary Worker’s Union—are continuing their Vegas-heavy activities by stating their intention to unionize the MMA fighters of the UFC.

We live in an age of wonders, they say. Forget your jetpacks; your iPhone boasts as much computing power as Apollo 11. But perhaps we left behind some technologies worth reviving for anybody who’s ever groaned out loud at the idea of dragging ass to the gym. Behold, a 1938 contraption for exercising via electrified gloves.

Cara Delevingne’s Modeling Career, which flourished in the mid-2010s and took the British actor Cara Delevnigne to runways and ad campaigns from Milan to Morocco, died Sunday in the Times of London. It was 6.

Five minutes of watching Cookie Lyons is enough to make a dedicated penny pincher drop major cash on luxurious accessories. Unsurprisingly, Saks Fifth Avenue wants to get in on that, and so they’re glomming onto Empire in advance of the September 23 season premiere.

There’s a scourge of topless women plaguing Time Square. The formerly very-un-family-friendly and then very-family-friendly area of New York where tourists flock to see billboards and eat at The Olive Garden has been overrun with with bare-chested painted ladies, and neither NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio or Governor Andrew Cuomo are having any of it.