Covered this week; Watch all the 2017 Super Bowl commercials… Anonymous brings the fight to the child pornographers… Charles Oakley gets busy on some MSG security stooges… How Trump’s agenda clashes with what Americans want… an end to what we used to recognize as facts in the Trump era… Prince’s catalog returns to all the streaming services… Nudity returns to Playboy Magazine… Al Jarreau dies at 76…
February 6, 2017
Our yearly right of passage, watch all the 2017 Super Bowl commercials neatly gathered in one place for your convenience…
February 7, 2017
Anonymous hacks and takes down 10,613 TOR websites on the Dark Web citing the presence of child pornography… hard to prove I suppose but ahhh… what the hell, they’re Anonymous right?
February 8, 2017
With fans chanting “Oakley. Oakley,” the 54-year-old former Knicks power forward punched three Knicks employees, according to the New York Police Department. He was eventually wrestled to the ground and taken to a nearby police station where he was processed for a desk appearance and issued a summons to report to court.
February 9, 2017
From fighting climate change to funding Planned Parenthood, the public has never been so out of step with a president… Tom Dickinson for Rolling Stone.
This gets to the heart of a chilling truth that much of educated America has yet to face about the Trump era. Amid all the howling about Trump’s deceptions, the far more upsetting story is the mandate behind them – not so much the death of truth in politics, but the irrelevance of it. Donald Trump is proving that if you connect with America’s anger and paranoia, you can get by quite easily without facts… Matt Taibbi for Rolling Stone.
February 10, 2017
Great news for the deep cuts crowd… after Prince pulled all his music from streaming services back in June of 2015 to soon enter into an exclusive deal with Jay Z’s Tidal… a lot of subsequent court activity initiated by his estate has cleared the way for Prince’s catalog to return to Spotify, Apple Music and iHeart amongst others.
February 11, 2017
Cooper Hefner, the son of magazine founder Hugh Hefner, announced the return of nudity to Playboy on Twitter saying, “I’ll be the first to admit that the way in which the magazine portrayed nudity was dated, but removing it entirely was a mistake.”
February 12, 2017
Al Jarreau, a versatile vocalist who sold millions of records and won a string of Grammys for his work in pop and R&B as well as his first love, jazz, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 76.
