Following reports that Rihanna passed on the Super Bowl LIII halftime show in a show of solidarity toColin Kaepernick, Amy Schumer said Friday that she informed her agent to turn down any commercial jobs connected to the February 2019 game. In a lengthy Instagram post, Schumer also called on Maroon …
Read More »Eric Idle's Hilarious New Memoir: 14 Things We Learned
As a member of the comedy troupe Monty Python, Eric Idle’s name has been synonymous with British comedy for nearly five decades. It’s a history he’s relived in interviews but never in an official autobiography. A few years ago, when he spoke with Rolling Stone, he joked that he was …
Read More »Why Legalizing Weed in New Jersey Could Change the Pot Market Worldwide
Legalization is tough: Regulations vary from state to state, county to county, even town to town. And at the end of the day, since marijuana is still federally classified as a Schedule I drug, it’s all basically illegal. But that hasn’t stopped entrepreneurs across the country from diving into the …
Read More »Prince's Half-Sister Sharon Nelson on His Death, Fentanyl Crisis
Fentanyl, the super-potent opioid, has emerged as the most dangerous new drug in a generation. For many, it wasn’t a household term until Prince died suddenly in April 2016 after taking the drug. But over the past decade, fentanyl was also a factor in the fatal overdoses of several other …
Read More »Big Tobacco Is Already Eyeing Pot
According to cannabis industry experts, it’s very likely that the country’s largest tobacco companies will get into the marijuana business, in some way, when it is possible. The question becomes how much control these corporate giants will have over the industry, what they will do to marijuana products and how …
Read More »Trump's Junk: Is It OK to Dick-Shame the President?
On Tuesday, The Guardianpublished excerpts from an obtained copy of Stormy Daniels’ not-yet-published, tell-all memoir Full Disclosure, in which she describes a number of troubling events: her 2006 sexual encounter with Donald Trump; her mounting disbelief as she watched him gain traction during the 2016 primaries; her fear that she …
Read More »Cold-Case Cure: Inside New Era of Hunting Serial Killers
For more than 25 years, Christy Mirack’s murder was shrouded in mystery — longer than the beloved Pennsylvania schoolteacher was alive. Mirack was found dead in her home just a few days before Christmas 1992, strangled and badly beaten, her clothes askew as if she had been sexually assaulted. The …
Read More »CBS Launches Investigation Into Leslie Moonves Sexual Misconduct Allegations
CBS Board of Directors has announced it has hired two separate law firms to investigate the allegations against CBS chairman-CEO Leslie Moonves as well as appointed a special committee of the board to oversee the investigation, Deadline reports. Six women have accused Moonves of sexual misconduct. In a statement released …
Read More »Yes, Bigfoot Erotica Is Absolutely a Thing
For all the peculiarities of the last several years of United States politics, few could have expected to see Bigfoot pornography at the center of a contentious race for a U.S. House of Representatives seat. Over the weekend, Leslie Cockburn, a Democratic candidate for Virginia’s 5th Congressional District, accused her …
Read More »John and Lorena Bobbitt, 25 Years Post-Castration
To mark the 25 year anniversary of the castration heard around the nation, Vanity Fair recently caught up with John Wayne Bobbitt and his knife-wielding ex Lorena for a bizarre look back at one of the most salacious cases of the last century. The piece, written by Lili Anolik, is …
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