Author: Travis M. Andrews
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How ‘South Park’ became the ultimate #bothsides show
There are two choices, both awful. That’s the resounding thesis of “South Park,” Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s boundary-pushing, expletive-laden cartoon about four 10-year-olds living in fictional South Park, Colo. This philosophy is probably best summed up by an episode from its eighth season, which dropped just before the 2004 presidential election. Titled “Douche and…
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Billboard’s charts used to be our barometer for music success. Are they meaningless in the streaming age?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Drake and Kanye West — two reigning kings of pop music — both flooded the American consciousness with music this summer in strikingly different manners. West released a series of seven-track albums, including one bearing his name and one collaboration with Kid Cudi. Drake, meanwhile,…
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NBC’s fall schedule: All ‘Chicago’ on Wednesdays and a 2-hour comedy block on Thursdays
Fans of Chicago television shows should clear their Wednesday nights. NBC announced its fall schedule, and it includes two new dramas and a new comedy. The network also has rearranged its schedule, resulting in three shows set in Chicago on Wednesdays and a two-hour comedy block on Thursdays. “Chicago Med,” “Chicago Fire” and “Chicago P.D.”…
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Bob Newhart’s ‘quietly revolutionary’ sitcom ended 40 years ago, but it changed TV
“The Bob Newhart Show” concluded 40 years ago last month with neither a whimper nor a bang. Indeed, there weren’t many whimpers or bangs during its six-year run. The show was reliable but never flashy, more well-oiled Honda Accord than Pontiac Firebird. In its way, it influenced decades of television comedy. It ran from 1972…
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Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac part ways again; reportedly he’s been fired
The long-running rock band Fleetwood Mac is an awful lot like a sports team. Through the years, its name has never changed even though its roster often has. Keeping track of its members is nearly as hard as remembering the names of “Game of Thrones” characters. Many consider the band’s true – or at least…
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Emily Blunt opens up about stuttering, which afflicted actors from Marilyn Monroe to Bruce Willis
Emily Blunt’s new movie “The Quiet Place” is about a family that tries to live silently, lest terrible things befall them. She won’t speak much, which is a tad unusual for the British actress. Her roles usually display flawless vocals, via her American accents (“The Girl on the Train,” “Sicario”) and singing (“Into the Woods,”…
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Nobody leaked government secrets in Australia. They showed up in a secondhand furniture store.
These days, government secrets tend to be leaked digitally with the help of the Internet and weak firewalls. Not so in Australia, where a leak can happen with the simple sale of a secondhand cabinet. Thousands of pages of Australian government documents, many of them top secret, were locked in two file cabinets that somehow…
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Taylor Swift groper from Colorado hired as DJ by station manager who doesn’t believe he did it
Disc jockey David Mueller was fired from his job at Denver radio station KYGO in June 2013 after Swift said he slipped his hand underneath her dress and grabbed her bare buttocks while they posed together for a photograph. Mueller denied the accusations, sued Swift for $3 million and lost. She countersued for a single…
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Grumpy Cat owner awarded over $700,000 in lawsuit. Cat still won’t smile.
To most Internet users, Grumpy Cat – the feline with a furry frown – is a minor celebrity that capitalized on the popularity of memes in 2012 as a perpetual sourpuss. One of the most famous images of the cat, for example, was overlaid with the text, “I had fun once. It was awful.” To…
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He tried to hold in a sneeze and ended up in the hospital on a feeding tube
Sneezing is an astoundingly powerful human action, blasting mucus and air from the nose and mouth at up to 100 miles per hour, according to the Cleveland Clinic. That power exists whether a sneeze is held in or not. “Occasionally, people will cause some damage to their eardrums or their sinuses if they stifle a…