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George Carlin lampoons the people he used to know in his New York City neighborhood, including Italians, Jews and the police, doing hilarious stereotypical impressions in a recently rediscovered clip of him performing in 1973. The clip comes from the rarely seen special, The Real George Carlin, that will be …

It’s a Thursday afternoon in February, but it feels like Christmas morning in the Studio City, California, office where Greg Lansky’s adult entertainment empire is headquartered. At the center of the office, which resembles a tech start-up with its open floor plan and clusters of video editing bays with flat-screen …

It’s barely been three months since Don Stevens stopped being mayor of North Bonneville, Washington, and he’s already feeling distraught about his legacy. We’re sitting on the misty banks of the Columbia River, nestled in a lush gorge about two miles off the Pacific Crest Trail, when the 61-year-old lights …

Robert Grossman, the artist and illustrator whose musician portraits and madcap political caricatures featured on the cover and in the pages of Rolling Stone, died March 15th at the age of 78. His son, Alex Emanuel Grossman, confirmed his death to The New York Times. For Rolling Stone, Grossman created …

A Florida man who claimed in a TV interview to have helped cremate Natalee Holloway’s remains back in 2010 was fatally stabbed with his own knife during an attempted kidnapping Wednesday. John Christopher Ludwick was stabbed in North Port, Florida, after trying to kidnap a woman as she was exiting …

It all began with David Bowie. Candy-colored hair. A lightning bolt across his cream-painted face. A mysterious backstory that he was a “messenger from Mars.” It was February 1973, and Bowie had come to New York to promote The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars …

There are no simple answers from Rose McGowan. Even a “How are you?” from the 92Y event’s moderator and investigative journalist Ronan Farrow pulls the actress, activist and author into a circuitous explanation about how the cult she was born into trained her for The End of Days at 18 …

When Smackdown Live was coined the “Land of Opportunity” in the summer of 2016, it became the preferred show for WWE fans looking for their favorite superstars getting more screen time, title matches and creative respect. A year and a half later, Smackdown is still the WWE’s most opportunistic show …

Cris Cyborg’s status as arguably the greatest female fighter in history was further elevated at UFC 219 when she defended her UFC Women’s Featherweight title against who many regarded as her biggest career threat in Holly Holm. Cyborg (19-1 MMA, 4-0 UFC) entered the fight having stopped her past 12 …

Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry suffered a gruesome ankle injury against the New Orleans Pelicans on Monday night. Tests have since revealed that Curry’s ankle is “stable and structurally intact,” but he will miss at least two weeks with a sprained right ankle. Curry has a history with his …