15 Jan 02:49
The 1986 romantic comedy Pretty in Pink turns 30 this year. Those who weren't around to live through the days of big shoulder pads and the perfectly-captured teen love angst of mid-1980s era John Hughes films can catch this classic from his repertoire when it hits select theaters nationwide next...
10 Jan 22:50
by Marie Lodi on The Slot, shared by Marie Lodi to Jezebel

Curious about what Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio thinks about Sean Penn’s controversial Rolling Stone interview
with El Chapo? I know I am. During an appearance on ABC’s This Week, Rubio told George Stephanopoulos he found it “grotesque.” And he wasn’t referring to the gross fart that Penn let fly during his meeting with the drug lord. I cannot stop thinking about his “traveler’s flatulence.
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09 Jan 21:14
by Melissa Cronin on Gawker, shared by Marie Lodi to Jezebel

The limelight, man. It’ll chew you up and spit you out. No one knows this better than Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the notorious drug cartel king who was finally arrested this week
after months on the lam.
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09 Jan 04:51
by Julianne Escobedo Shepherd on The Muse, shared by Julianne Escobedo Shepherd to Jezebel

Erykah Badu is as musically omnivorous as the best of ‘em, not just writing, creating, producing and recording songs but DJing them, too, under her turntables moniker DJ Low Down Loretta Brown. As another feather in her cap for this prolific streak she’s been having of late, she went on Zane Lowe’s Beats show right before U Cain’t Use My Phone
and dropped a mix of jams she loves, staying wavy and dedicating it to the bees (actual bees) because, she wrote, “Save the bees, else we ain’t gone have no where to fight and discriminate… cause they aint have’n that shit on MARS.” It is true! They ain’t have that shit on Mars, and she is correct that if the bees die, we’re all toast.
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08 Jan 02:38
Pierre Boulez, a maverick composer and conductor who once worked on one of Frank Zappa's classical albums, died at his home in Baden-Baden, Germany on Tuesday. He was 90.
The Philharmonie de Paris confirmed his death, according to The New York Times. "Audacity, innovation, creativity – that is what Pierre Boulez...
25 Dec 15:31
Four months after declaring bankruptcy, mail-order retailer Columbia House thinks they have uncovered a path to solvency: Vinyl. Hoping to capitalize on the record fad, Columbia House's new owner announced plans to revive the company as a vinyl-only delivery service. Columbia House got out of the music business entirely in...
16 Dec 17:09
by Allie Jones on Gawker, shared by Emma Carmichael to Jezebel

The new Star Wars movie reportedly passes the Bechdel test. Doubt that.
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10 Dec 22:31
by Hillary Crosley Coker on ROYGBIV, shared by Emma Carmichael to Jezebel

Early Tuesday morning in Philadelphia, a transgender woman was jumped by at least five men and fatally shot twice in the back.
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