Alicia Arritt had no inkling that her ex-boyfriend was planning to blow up one of the swankiest hotels on the Las Vegas Strip. In the days before the explosion and apparent suicide, Matthew Livelsberger’s texts to her were playful, almost like a child with a new toy. “I rented a Tesla Cybertruck. It’s the s***,” […]
This year, three particularly foul-mouthed and insulting young rappers named “Lil Jeff,” “Lil Scoom,” and “Ybcdul” recorded a song together. All three had been killed before the end of the summer. For anyone who pays attention to the underground rap scene, and the internet spectator culture that follows both the music and the violent crime […]
In viewing A Complete Unknown, I must admit to remaining mystified that rock biopics continue to get made at all in the wake of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, the hysterically funny and tragically underseen 2007 parody of basically every rockstar biopic ever made. Indeed, so comprehensive is its satire that the titular Cox […]
When a novel misses the mark, an opera sinks like a stone, or a Broadway show closes up shop, few care beyond the niche contingent conversant in the inside baseball of the respective art form. By contrast, when large-scale, grandly budgeted movies prove ruinously unprofitable at the box office, even amateur cinephiles find themselves doubled […]
A small plane crashed into a commercial building and started a fire in Southern California on Thursday, killing two people and injuring 18. The flight-tracking website FlightAware shows a four-seat, single-engine aircraft crashed about a minute after takeoff, but it is unknown what type of plane it was or whether those injured were in the […]
CNN began 2025 with its worst ratings for the network’s New Year’s Eve coverage in five years. According to Nielsen data shared with the Washington Examiner, the network’s 11 p.m. broadcast on Dec. 31, 2024, saw its smallest audience since 2019. CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live, which aired from 8:30 p.m. until 12:30 a.m., drew […]
The federal judicial policymaking body smacked down a request by Democratic lawmakers to refer Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to the Department of Justice over allegations he failed to disclose gifts and travel provided by a wealthy benefactor. In a trio of letters made public on Thursday, Robert J. Conrad Jr., the secretary to the […]
Two men with ties to the U.S. military are accused of perpetrating terrorist attacks on New Year’s Eve, bolstering concerns over the capacity of military members who have been radicalized to use their training and knowledge for domestic harm. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, and Matthew Alan Livelsberger, 37, who police say are behind the New Orleans Bourbon Street […]
Two top Jan. 6 committee lawmakers, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, were part of a group awarded the nation’s second-highest civilian honor by President Joe Biden on Thursday. Thompson and Cheney, awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal, have both been floated as pardon candidates in Biden’s final days in office. […]
Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) handed out new committee positions to a slew of incoming Democratic senators and incumbent lawmakers in the upper chamber. On Thursday, a number of incoming Democratic freshman lawmakers, including Sen.-elects Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), Andy Kim (D-NJ), and Lisa Rochester (D-DE), […]
