Kyle Mooney

Letterman Farewell Suiting, But Long Overdue, Some Say

David Letterman bid viewers one last “Thank You, and Good Night” Tuesday night, before officially ceding his throne atop the late-night comedy hierarchy to incoming heir Stephen Colbert. The send-off ceremony, which garnered Letterman his largest viewership since 1994 with 13.7 million viewers, was replete with archive videos and photos from The Late Show With […]

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Tina Fey On Motherhood

When it comes to story fodder, nothing is off limits for Tina Fey. In the comedy icon’s bestselling 2011 memoir, Bossypants, Fey discussed her excessive body hair, near-fatal post-nuptial cruise ship disaster, and struggles with institutionalized misogyny, all the while managing to induce belly laughs at the turn of every page. Botched suicide bomber missions? […]

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Why Billie Holiday Matters

“You never heard singing so lazy, so slow, with such a drawl,” Ralph Cooper said as he urged the Apollo to hire a new young singer he’d discovered in a club in Harlem. “I don’t know what it is but you got to hear her.” It’s called jazz singing today. Back then they called it […]

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Occupy Wall Street Didn’t Just Fizzle Out

Remember when a bunch of anarchists met in Zuccotti Park on September 17, 2011, to denounce Wall Street’s role in the perpetuation of global inequality and mass impoverishment? Remember when it became Occupy Wall Street, and then Occupy Everywhere Else? Remember when it, like, ended? Yeah, that. A piece published Thursday in the New York […]

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Jay-Z’s Tidal Wave

It was in true “Jigga” style that Jay-Z unveiled his newly-acquired online music streaming service Tidal on Monday, March 30. In a now-widely circulated video, Mr. Carter appears alongside 16 of music’s biggest and highest-earning artists as Alicia Keys announces the arrival of the “first ever artist-owned global music and entertainment platform.” Rihanna, Beyoncé, Daft […]

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Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell’s Love Affair With Billie Holiday

Joni Mitchell is making headlines this week after being hospitalized, the Inquisitr reports. Mitchell fell unconscious in her Los Angeles home on Tuesday and was rushed to hospital for what the CBC said was a “minor medical emergency.” Mitchell is known to suffer from Morgellons disease, a skin condition so rare that it has yet […]

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Big Brother Is Coming To Canada (And We Don’t Mean The TV Show)

“Big Brother Is Watching You” is the ubiquitous slogan of the all-knowing, all-powerful Party in George Orwell’s dystopic classic 1984. A metaphor for the surveillance state, Big Brother watches protagonist Winston Smith’s every move via omnipotent telescreens, not unlike those in the popular reality series of the same name that debuted in 2000. But unlike […]

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‘Washington Post’ Cartoonist Blasts Indiana’s ‘Freedom to Discriminate’

Washington Post editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes’ latest opinion piece takes a satirical jab at Indiana’s so-called “Freedom to Discriminate.” The article, which appeared today in the Washington Post‘s Opinions section, depicts Indiana Governor Mike Pence, among other things, as a horse-mounted warrior championing the religious rights of Hoosiers–the demonym given to residents of Indiana. The […]

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Repairing Ecological Degradation: ‘Don’t Fight Forces, Use Them.’

“We’re tipping towards the unknown,” said President of Buckminster Fuller Institute David McConville, as he set the tone for the two-day Degeneration-Regeneration conference held in Montreal March 27th and 28th. The event gathered landscape architects, scholars and other champions of regenerative design on the 50th anniversary of the Quebec Landscape Architects Association (AAPQ) to discuss […]

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Andreas Lubitz

Intentional Plane Crashes A Rare Occurrence

The downing of Germanwings flight 9525 that killed all 150 passengers on board was declared a intentional crash by French officials, the New York Timesreports. A voice recording found on the plane’s black box indicated the co-pilot, 27-year-old Andreas Lubitz of Germany, intentionally crashed the plane into the French Alps after locking his colleague out […]

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Global Warming Causing Slowdown Of Overturning Circulation: Study

A new study released in Nature Climate Change warns that global warming is causing a slowdown in the great ocean circulation, the Washington Post reports. As the effects of global warming take hold, an inevitable rise in sea levels will prove devastating for much of the U.S., as well as Canada and Mexico. Densely populated […]

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Emmy Noether: The Genius Mathematician That Almost Wasn’t

Google Doodle today marked the 133rd birthday of prized mathematician Emmy Noether. Born in Erlangen, Germany in 1882, Emmy Noether has been heralded for the invaluable contributions she made to group theory as well as theoretical physics. Today’s Google Doodle featured a collection of circles, each of them representing a different branch of math and […]

9y ago

Easter 2015 Competes With Billie Holiday’s 100th Birthday

Easter 2015 marks more than two millenia since Jesus Christ rose from the dead so we could all be forgiven for our sins. To celebrate Easter 2015, Christians around the world will consume a concoction of cocoa and sugar, and some of them will wear really big hats when they do it. But in addition […]

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Storied Miami Hotel Gets $40 Million Boost

Miami-based Lynx Construction Management has announced it will be heading a $40 million overhaul of one of the most storied art deco buildings in Miami: Ocean Drive’s iconic Park Central Hotel. Developers say the result of the mammoth undertaking will be one-of-a-kind in Miami: a sprawling four-building property combining the Park Central, Heathcote, and Imperial […]

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‘House of Cards’: The Rise and Fall of Claire Underwood

And just like that, another 10 hours and 55 minutes of House of Cards devoured whole. Predictably, House of Cards’third season was the usual dizzying storm of behind-the-curtains conniving and strategizing that assured the continued social and political ascension of the mighty Underwoods. Unpredictably, all the scheming and strong-arming didn’t work in the favor of […]

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Geese Fall Dead in Idaho: Avian Cholera To Blame?

Biologists in Idaho were puzzled to discover more than 2,000 snow geese that appeared to have dropped from the sky while en route to their nesting grounds on Alaska’s northern coast, wildlife managers told Reuters. Gregg Losinski, spokesman for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, said the manner in which the birds died indicate […]

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OMG! Buzzfeed Coming To Canada

Buzzfeed, the world’s online source for the Best, Worst, Craziest, Hairiest, Lamest, Most Shocking, Most Terrifying, Most LOL, Cringiest and Least Attractive of everything, is coming to Canada! The website that first put the letters “OMG” in a headline announced its plans to expand to the Great White North on Thursday. Buzzfeed says it will […]

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‘House Of Cards’ Features Newfoundland Actor

House of Cards, the Netflix original political drama that made history when it became the first online series to be awarded three Emmy awards, released its third season on Friday, February 27. Though no viewership stats are available (Netflix doesn’t release them), House of Cards has become a bona fide favorite, particularly among binge watchers. […]

9y ago

Ferguson Officers Shot: A Declaration Of War?

A crowd had assembled on Wednesday night in front of the Ferguson police department after the announcement that Chief Thomas Jackson would be resigning. According to reports from Reuters, Jackson stepped down on Wednesday afternoon after months of public pressure following the August 9 shooting of Michael Brown. Just after midnight, the Huffington Postreports, shots […]

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Suge Knight’s LAPD Ties: Will He Get Away With Murder?

TMZ has obtained raw video in which a truck allegedly driven by former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight runs over two men in a parking lot. The footage shows Knight entering the parking lot of a Tam’s Burgers in Compton on January 29, 2015. Two men, later revealed as Terry Carter, 55, and Cle […]

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