On Thursday, federal authorities in Scranton, Pennsylvania, released charges against nine people they say were involved in a series of dramatic museum heists. The alleged thieves cased their targeted institutions ahead of time, then returned […]
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The Fast Times and High Crimes of a Hip-Hop Grifter
“Who’s Swagg Man?” the 36-year-old rapper currently wanted by the law poses the question to himself in a text to me. “I was born an artist … Swagg Man is a fictif [fictional] guy. Same […]
Pet Shop Boys: Smash – The Singles 1985 – 2020
Even before he perfected them, Neil Tennant respected pop singles enough to hate them. As a journalist at the beloved, now-shuttered British music magazine Smash Hits in the early ’80s, his reviews of the 7-inches […]
She Used TikTok to Keep Her Missing Sister’s Name in the News. Now, She Wants to Save Other Women
Megan Kingsbury and her sister Madeline used to spend hours together, taking long walks, relaxing by the lake, or trying out new coffee shops in the towns where they lived, a few hours apart, in […]
Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Guilty of All 63 Charges Against Him
The man who killed 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018 was convicted Friday of all 63 charges against him, The Washington Post reports. The charges against Robert G. Bowers, […]
DOJ Finds Minneapolis Cops ‘Routinely’ Used Excessive Force, Violated Civil Rights
The U.S. Department of Justice has released the findings of their investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department, saying cops routinely violated the Constitutional rights of citizens, used excessive force, and discriminated against Black and Native […]
Ja Morant Suspended for First 25 Games of NBA Season After Second Gun-Flashing Video
Ja Morant has been suspended for the first 25 games of the upcoming NBA season without pay following a second incident where the Memphis Grizzlies star allegedly flashed a firearm on social media. Following the […]
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Part Ways With Spotify After Lone Podcast
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are ending their podcast deal with Spotify after delivering 12 episodes of Markle’s Archetypes. The news was announced in a joint statement between the streaming service and Archewell Audio, the […]
Queens of the Stone Age: In Times New Roman…
Like many of us, Joshua Homme has had a rough few years. Unlike most of us, the Queens of the Stone Age frontman’s troubles have been splattered across the music press. He’s been embroiled in […]
Asake: Work of Art
Asake’s on top of the world right now and isn’t coming down. On “Olorun,” the meditative opener to his second album, Work of Art, he extols the Supreme Being of the Yoruba religion before praising […]
Caterina Barbieri: Myuthafoo
Nothing signals synthesizer psychedelia quite like the combination of an arpeggio and a delay. The arpeggio divides a chord into looping sequences of notes. The delay allows those sequences to overlap. Once set in motion, […]