During Donald Trump’s recent trip to China, Republican Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas appeared on Newsmax and toed a sycophantic line in a rather specific way. “We trust in Trump that he’s over there making a great deal for us,” the senator said. “No one’s done more for American agriculture and rural America than President … Read more
J. Smith-Cameron is giving Emmy voters several reasons to consider her this season. Back in 2024, when Variety spoke with Smith-Cameron, the actor had made a cameo on HBO’s “Hacks” as Deborah Vance’s (Jean Smart) younger sister, Kathy. “It feels to me like there’s more,” Smith-Cameron had said. She was right — there was more. … Read more
The Red Clay Strays never set out to captivate country music. Even though they accidentally became Nashville’s latest heroes, that’s still the case. “We’re country boys,” Brandon Coleman tells me. “We were all raised in the South, and we were all raised on country music. But we just make whatever noise we make when we … Read more
Don’t forget: Bowen Yang is still Emmy-eligible. On Monday, “Saturday Night Live,” the long-running NBC late-night sketch series, held its Emmy For Your Consideration event in Los Angeles at the Television Academy’s Wolf Theatre at the Saban Media Center. Yang was among the 12-member cast panel, which also included Tommy Brennan, Andrew Dismukes, Chloe Fineman, … Read more
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. As the portable audio arms race heats up, brands are stuffing more features than ever into tiny earbuds. Many premium options offer Dolby or spatial audio, Apple and Samsung have added live-translation functionality, … Read more
Your trip’s environmental footprint starts forming before you ever leave the house. If you pack wisely, there’s a lot you can do to reduce the negative impact that traveling can have on the planet. Here’s a short list of ecofriendly guidelines to get you going. 1. Use Refillable Toiletries Single-use travel-size toiletries make travel convenient, … Read more
In the wake of the March bankruptcy filing of iPic Theaters, Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired two iPic luxury theater locations in Los Angeles’ Westwood Village and New York and will rebrand them as The Cinemas. The locations will no longer operate with in-theater dining, but instead will focus on premium concessions featuring “elevated food … Read more
Finding legitimately eco-friendly travel options is difficult, not to mention time-consuming. The gap between sustainability claims and practices can be quite large, and greenwashing isn’t always easy to identify. But there are signs to look for. Researchers in Turkey recently identified five key categories to describe the most common forms of tourism-related greenwashing: eco-certifications, inadequate … Read more
MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace said she had secondhand embarrassment on Thursday’s “Deadline: White House” after sharing a clip of President Donald Trump bragging about the size of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. During an event in the Oval Office, the president touted a chart titled “Our Pool is Bigger than Skyscrapers,” which compared the pool’s … Read more
Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, the Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Regional Conservation Area boasts enormous biodiversity—pink dolphins, rare monkeys, giant river otters, reptiles, and hundreds of birds and different types of plants. It’s also one of the most prominent examples of a government recognizing that environmental conservation doesn’t require keeping people out. That instead, it’s possible for … Read more