“We’ve grown up knowing nothing more than the fact that we may be shot in our school,” 16-year-old Kaylee Tyner said as she dipped her spoon into a cup of frozen yogurt. Her tone was so frank she almost sounded bored. We were in Littleton, Colorado, about a three minute drive from Columbine High School, where Tyner is…
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Thousands of students across the country participated in the #NationalSchoolWalkout on Friday, commemorating the 19th anniversary of the Columbine shooting and continuing the teen-led activism that has erupted in the wake of the Parkland shooting.
R. Kelly’s attorney, publicist, and executive assistant have all reportedly resigned and more may be leaving his team soon.
In Mary H.K. Choi’s debut novel, Emergency Contact, most of the conversations between Penny, the novel’s protagonist, and Sam, her friend/love interest/soul mate, take place via texts. It’s a premise that in lesser hands could flop, but Choi’s writing sparkles, gleams, and glistens. Emergency Contact is a true…
Hello, nice to see you on this glorious day. If you were looking for a makeup news peg that didn’t involve how to conceal that you’re high, here it is. Milk Makeup just dropped Kush Mascara, a formula full of CBD-rich cannabis oil. And, it’s vegan and gluten-free.
In the frenzied game of musical chairs that is the Trump administration, CIA Director Mike Pompeo is set to become the next Secretary of State. It’s an ideal time, then, to clarify details of his biography, including a rather major one: did Pompeo, as numerous profiles have stated, fight in the Gulf War? We asked the…
You might want to sit down for this one. Unless, of course, the seat closest to you is a stool. In that case, stand with some dignity, because stools are bullshit.
In November 2017, rumors surrounding Smallville’s Allison Mack (she played Clark Kent’s BFF Chloe Sullivan) surfaced, alleging that the actress was a key recruiter for sex cult DOS, or “dominus obsequious sororium,” Latin for “master over the slave women.” DOS is part of the secretive group Nxivm, which, in a recent,…
Every day, someone somewhere makes a mistake. Some are big, some are small, but most are easily remedied by owning up to one’s transgression and expressing humility, an elusive trait that most lack. It’s not easy, but those truly capable of humility are the ones that will persevere.
It was more than five years ago when Lance Armstrong went on Oprah, looked her in the eye, and admitted to the world that his iconic comeback story was fueled by the most comprehensive doping regimen in cycling history. The seven-time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor had spent his career brashly denying that…
An man named Menzo Brazier has been arrested after leaving his gun in a car with his children and their mother, Shanique Thomas. Their 3-year-old daughter grabbed the handgun and accidentally shot Thomas through the back of her passenger seat.
This year on my mom’s birthday, I gave her and ultimately myself the best gift ever; I quit smoking cigarettes. Smoking was part of me for—gasp—almost half of my life. My grandmother smoked two packs a day, my grandfather died on a horse while smoking, my aunt, uncle and cousins smoked so much they collected enough…
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Encouraging news for parents of teens and future teens: The prom is getting cheaper! Kinda. Sorta.
On this holiest of holidays, 420, we media folk like to take the time to celebrate cannabis culture and all that it has done for the advancement of...things to write about. Or, at the very least, it’s a great opportunity to point out all the dumb shit brands do in an effort to appear relevant, further commodifying…
Artist Emma Rose Laughlin is a lover of the traditionally feminine craft of embroidery. Ever since she discovered a box of discarded needlework in her grandma’s basement a few years ago, she has taken to stitching vintage doilies and handkerchiefs with painstaking designs—but she isn’t interested in the typical dainty…
Swedish DJ and producer Avicii died on Friday, April 20, his publicist Diana Baron confirmed to Billboard. He was 28 years old. The cause of death is currently unknown.
Janelle Monáe made a 44-minute “emotion picture” (what we mere human Earthlings call a movie) to go with her forthcoming album, Dirty Computer. But instead of having us watch it on our computers, Monáe is making it a televised event.
