Civil War eschews the typical trappings of a combat action movie by turning the lens not toward the soldiers but to the photographers capturing them. And while it excels in some aspects of its portrayal, it falters when it comes to the big stuff. [Read More]
Is Shōgun a Japanese show or an American one? It was produced by an
In this column I try not to cover things that any normal person knows are fake—like chemtrails. But just this week, Tennessee legislators passed a state law that bans “the intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals substances, or apparatus with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight. In other words: chemtrails.
In this week's Rorschach Test, we asked the "Jackass" stuntman and prankster to sound off on the topics heavy on our minds: world peace, MILFs, and concussions.
Trigger warning: The following story contains descriptions of physical and verbal abuse. Just when the messy divorce proceedings between rapper Jeezy and his soon-to-be ex-wife Jeannie Mai seemed like they couldn’t get any worse, new allegations of abuse and child neglect. Last week, we told you how the “Put On” rapper had filed for primary custody of the child citing his belief that she “would have more stability.” He later walked that back and amended his request for both he and Mai to have...
For the first time in American history, a former president is the defendant in a felony trial, and the misinformation, rumors, and fake news are coming in hot from the Trump trial. Below are some quick fact-checks of some of the many dubious claims coming out of the trial.
The current campus demonstrations are a reminder that of all the mossy clichés and puffed-up pieties of polite (and impolite) American discourse, the sanctity of protest is the hardest to question. Doubting the loftiness of protest invites elite scorn more than any other skepticism about a constitutional right. Proposing limits on free speech, for example, attracts far less outrage. Indeed, people question free speech all the time: in debates about “hate speech,” campaign finance, social media...
CRAIG HOPE: The journey that brought Mark Clattenburg on board with the Daily Mail began in the foyer of a social club in Seaham in 2017. He was - not for the first time - at the centre of a media storm.
The label of elitism sticks to opera like superglue. The label is a fake, but one for which no cultural chemical capable of removing it has yet proved effective. Still, opera populists are trying and appear to be making progress. Los Angeles Opera last week unveiled two new productions of operas old or avant-garde: Verdi’s 19th century chestnut “La Traviata,” and Huang Ruo’s 2021 “Book of Mountains and Seas,” based on ancient Chinese myths. Both are literally worlds apart, they were given in...
Twenty-five years ago on April 20, 1999, one teacher and 12 students were shot and killed by two seniors at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. Another 21 members of the Columbine school community were injured in this shooting and countless lives devastated. That kind of mass violence — and in a school no less — was unthinkable at the time. Yet the past quarter-century has tragically and frustratingly shown that we have failed to keep schoolchildren safe. The communities of Newtown, Conn.,...
In Colorado today, you can go bankrupt getting divorced from a marriage you didn’t know you had.
“I’m devastated. I walked through fire for that man, but now I see it’s time to go,” Kelsey Plum wrote.