When Taylor Swift announced in 2019 that she would be re-recording her first six albums in an effort to reclaim her original music, fans began eagerly anticipating the opportunity to revisit the past—and hear beloved songs in a new light. But Swift provided even more than that: In addition to re-releasing the tracks off the albums, she also included songs that almost made the cut. The songs, …
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The summer I was seven years old, Jurassic Park came out on VHS. I’m dating myself, I know. What’s worse, I had to beg my parents to rent a tape player from the local independent video store so that I could watch it, staring in wonder at Spielberg and Industrial Light & Magic’s vision of a world, which until then, had lived for me only in paintings and books. Then…
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Warning: This post contains spoilers for episode 2 of True Detective: Night Country.
The mystery at the heart of True Detective: Night Country is starting to heat up. Literally.
After arriving at the site where the missing Tsalal Arctic Research Center scientists were found frozen into a grotesque tableau in the season premiere, Ennis Poli…
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Formerly canceled YouTubers Jeffree Star and Shane Dawson are trying to claw their way back to relevance after getting called out for their problematic behavior. Star is an androgynous beauty YouTuber who was able to start his own cosmetics company after finding success as a guru online, and Dawson is noted as one of the first YouTubers who legitimized making a living from content on the platfo…
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William Friedkin, the Oscar winning director who became a top filmmaker in his 30s with the gripping “The French Connection” and the horrifying “The Exorcist” and struggled in the following decades to match his early success has died. He was 87.
Friedkin, who won the best director Oscar for “The French Connection,” died Monday in Los Angeles, his wife, producer and former studio head Sher…
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Recent changes to Medicaid programs, aimed at closing a health coverage gap in the U.S., have left behind some Americans — particularly people of color.
Among the non-elderly population in the U.S. — those under age 65 — insured rates rose during the Covid pandemic, with 3.4 million Americans enrolling in health coverage between 2019 and 2022, according …
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