Новости за 31.12.2018

On January 1, 1999, MTV’s Carson Daily rung in the new year by introducing Limp Bizkit, who proceeded to do a cover of Prince’s “1999.”

In 1998, Congress passed the Copyright Term Extension Act, which—like its name implies—extended the copyright of works published between 1922 and 1978 by an additional 20 years, from 75 years to 95 years. On Tuesday, January 1, that extension period runs out, and works from Marcel Proust, Agatha Christie, Edith…

American Girl has announced their 2019 “Girl of the Year” doll; previous characters include an aspiring dancer, and aspiring poet, and an aspiring astronaut. This year it’s Blaire, an aspiring chef who is learning to navigate when it’s time to log off and connect with your family.

Hillary Frank, creator and host of the wildly popular parenting podcast The Longest Shortest Time, says she encountered “the special misogyny reserved for mothers” when first trying several years ago to get her show on the radio. As Frank writes today in a New York Times op-ed, she was met with “rejection after…

Deepfakes, or pornography in which face-swapping technology has been used to generate fake videos, first made the news at the end of 2017, when a Reddit user released videos featuring the faces of several celebrities and then subsequently made an app widely available for anyone to use.

According to a new report, Samantha Markle is on a police watchlist for those “fixated” on the royal family. I mean... if the shoe fits....

Mike and Alexandra Chau are the parents behind @FoodBabyNY, a popular foodie Instagram account that frequently features their children crammed into the shot, making faces or gesturing towards the food. The Instagram started when their son Matty was just a newborn, according to a short profile of the Chaus in the New…

Somehow, after all these years, R. Kelly still has a career.

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One of life’s cruelest tricks is that drinking makes you feel invincible in the moment, but like absolute death the next day. The inevitability of this death feeling only increases with age. If you are young and fresh, with youth’s dew still caressing your downy cheeks, drinking at night may have little to no…

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte—a man who routinely mocks rape victims, brags about killing people, and who once told a female senator to publicly hang herself—admitted in a speech to sexually abusing a former housemaid as a teenager.

I smoked weed until I couldn’t anymore. It was that simple. My lifestyle change was about as ceremonious as taking off a shirt. I didn’t binge myself into disgust or somehow hit rock bottom on THC. My bleary eyes facilitated no hardship, my insuppressible giggles yielded no tragedy that put everything into perspective…

Today—on the last day of 2018—the 2020 presidential race officially began as Senator Elizabeth Warren made her presidential run official. Meanwhile, former campaign staffers of Senator Bernie Sanders have asked for a meeting with Sanders and his team about sexual assault and harassment during the 2016 campaign,…

Louis C.K. is slowly and steadily making his comedy comeback, and he’s doing so with material that sounds like it’s written by a 12-year-old who took one stand-up class and uses the word “retarded” a lot.

Every year, shortly before midnight, confetti begins raining down upon the partiers brave (or foolish) enough to converge upon Times Square for New Year’s Eve. That simple, striking visual requires an entire year of preparation.

I didn’t necessarily peg Jennifer Lawrence as the kind of person who would freak out on weed, but then I suppose this story fits nicely into the whole quirky-gal-doin-thangs persona, since she is a quirky gal out here doing things. The Howard Stern Show recently shared a previously unseen clip from a February 2018…

Rescue animal lovers unite!

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Earlier this month, a federal judge in Texas ruled that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional, throwing the ever-imperiled healthcare law into, well, even more peril. There was some confusion, after the ruling, as to whether or not the ACA would still be valid going into 2019. But on Sunday, the judge who struck…

Santa really came through on this Christmas gift: Another Clear the Rack is upon us, which means Nordstrom Rack is taking an extra 25% off its clearance section, which already lists astoundingly low prices on all of your favorite brands. Over 17,000 styles for men and women are up for grabs through tomorrow. Merry…

We are stuck with Brett Kavanaugh for the rest of his life. This is a fact, despite Christine Blasey Ford’s harrowing testimony at his nomination hearings in September, and despite the 83 judicial misconduct complaints filed against him in the wake of that testimony. Those complaints were dismissed two weeks ago, but…

In 2017, Kevin Spacey was fired from House of Cards after actor Anthony Rapp accused Spacey of making unwanted sexual advances toward him when he was only 14. But for some reason, Spacey seems to think he left his lucrative starring role of his volition—perhaps to take up golfing, or canasta?—as evidenced by the fancy…

Donald Trump’s decision to pull all American troops out of Syria was widely controversial, leading to condemnation from both the left and the right, and spurring the resignation of Defense Secretary James Mattis. Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy to the coalition fighting against ISIS, resigned the next day. Now that the…

In her seminal treatise on the benefits of money, the aptly titled “Money,” Cardi B comprehensively explores the pleasures money brings, such as “boarding jets” and “morning sex,” which aren’t acts that are expressly forbidden to those of us without diamonds on our necks but are often made difficult by the prohibitive…