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What Happens When Beyonce Speaks Actual Words Out Of Her Actual Mouth, Explained
Who is Beyonce? Beyonce is an introverted Houstonian known best for being allergic to seats — like, literally every seat she’s ever seen makes her sneeze — and for inventing “surfborting.” Surfborting? Yes. Surtborting. She’s the world’s first — and probably the world’s only — professional surfborter. Is she known for anything else? Well, for…
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10 More Things That Are Worse Than Slavery, According to Ben Carson
While on Meet the Press Sunday, unintentionally ironic former neurosurgeon Ben Carson compared abortion to slavery, stating, “During slavery, a lot of the slave owners thought that they had the right to do whatever they wanted to that slave. Anything that they chose to do. And what if the abolitionists had said, ‘I don’t believe…
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How Beyoncé Makes Us Crazy
Who is Beyoncé? Beyoncé is an introverted Houstonian known best for being allergic to seats—like, literally every seat she’s ever seen makes her sneeze—and for inventing “surfborting.” Surfborting? Yes. Surfborting. She’s the world’s first—and probably the world’s only—professional surfborter. Is she known for anything else? Well, for approximately 171 million Americans and 1.4 billion people…
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It's Confirmed: Sandra Bullock Is The Greatest White Savior Of All Time
Last weekend, I took my dad to see Sicario — Denis Villeneuve’s gripping and graphic (very, very, very graphic) depiction of the drug war. Now, while Sicario has done well at the box office, it wasn’t exactly a blockbuster — nor was it intended to be — so with that in mind, plus the fact…
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Sandra Bullock Is the Greatest White Savior Ever
Last weekend, I took my dad to see Sicario—Denis Villeneuve’s gripping and graphic (very, very, very graphic) depiction of the drug war. Now, while Sicario has done well at the box office, it wasn’t exactly a blockbuster—nor was it intended to be—so with that in mind, plus the fact that we went to a 10…
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Exclusive: An Interview With Meek Mill About Wale, Drake, And Nigerian Leprechauns
Late last night, our people were able to arrange a last minute interview with Meek Mill to discuss his beef with Wale. A condensed version of the interview is below. Thank you for agreeing to do this interview. I know you have a lot going on right now, so I appreciate it. I WASN’T AGREEING…
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The Lie Everyone Tells You About Having a Pregnant Wife
“If it’s a lie, then we fight on that lie.” —Slim Charles One of the best things about The Wire is that, even almost a decade after the last episode aired, you can still incorporate lines from the show to describe everyday situations. Order cream of chicken with wild rice at Panera Bread, and it comes…
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Announcing The Launch Of 1839
For the past several months, I’ve been working with a number of people — including writer Deesha Philyaw, janera solomon of the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, and VSB’s own sarah huny young — to create 1839, a Pittsburgh-based magazine that takes a nuanced look at the intersection of race, politics, the arts, community and culture in…
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Things Drake Does In The "Hotline Bling" Vid That Men Not Named Drake Can Never Do
Yesterday, Drake released a video to “Hotline Bling.” The song, the video, and the reaction to the song and video is quintessential Drake. It is perhaps the most quintessentially Drake thing Drake has ever done, which is saying something because everything Drake does is quintessentially Drake. What exactly does quintessentially Drake mean, you ask? Well, quintessentially Drake means that if literally…
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A Hater’s Guide to Hating Drake and Hating the ‘Hotline Bling’ Video
Who is Drake? Drake is a Jewish-Canadian Instagram model who’s known for dating Serena Williams and other women so thick that everyone else in the room is so uncomfortable. He also records and releases songs about Toronto and Spanx, apparently. One question in and you’re hating already! Why couldn’t you just say, “Drake is a…
