Bob Kleinman, 68, was looking forward to a getaway befitting a diehard Deadhead: Kicking off the new year with three nights of Dead and Company concerts on a Cancún beach for the band’s “Playing in the Sand” residential shows, which will run Jan. 7 to Jan. 10 and Jan. 13 …
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Fox has canceled its original plans to broadcast New Year’s Eve Toast & Roast 2022 live in New York’s Times Square citing the surge of the Covid-19 Omicron variant, Variety reports. The network announced on Tuesday that it will instead air replacement programming. “While we are confident in the health …
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The pandemic has fleshed a wealth of fresh derangement out of conservative figures who already had demonstrated a pretty high capacity for it. Dennis Prager, however, is putting his anti-vaxx colleagues to shame. The 73-year-old radio host, perhaps best known for trying to pass off conservative propaganda videos as reputable …
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“Today’s sermon is going to be on Unitopian Anarchy and Autonomy,” Unicole Unicron says in the opening of a sermon on YouTube. Clad in an ethereal white veil, against a background of dizzying black-and-white swirls, the leader of the self-described cult Unicult proceeds to spends the next 51 minutes detailing …
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In the wake of executive producer Mike Richards’ resignation as the new host of Jeopardy! after facing allegations of employment discrimination, the Jeopardy!powers that be decided to go with someone as interim host who seemed immune to cancellation: erstwhile Nineties fashion plate, longtime network TV sweetheart, and neuroscientist Mayim Bialik. …
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The city hosting Trump’s rally on Saturday has declared a Covid-related state of emergency due to the surge of new cases that have overwhelmed Alabama’s hospitals. The declaration will provide additional resources, equipment, and medical first responders to the city of Cullman as it readies itself for the potential superspreader …
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Los Angeles County will require masks at outdoor events with 10,000 or more attendees, including concerts, festivals and sporting events, as New York Times reports. The mandate, issued by officials on Tuesday, will take effect beginning at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday. The regulation, which arrives in the midst of a …
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UPDATE (8/17): Health officials in Washington state’s Grant County have updated the total number of Covid cases related to the Watershed festival outbreak to “over 230,” according to a release on Tuesday. Cases linked to the country music concert have been identified in 13 counties. *** The Watershed country music …
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Representative Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.) incorrectly claimed that hospitals are not overwhelmed by Covid patients and downplayed the stark rise in cases nationwide by callously saying, “We’re human, we can’t live forever.” The lawmaker made the comments during a Thursday interview on the right-wing network “Real America’s Voice.” While claiming …
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Twitter has suspended Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s account for one week after the conspiracy-peddling representative violated its policy regarding misleading claims about Covid-19. The tweet that triggered the suspension came on Monday, with Greene writing that the Food and Drug Administration should not approve the vaccines against the disease, which are …
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