By then, the Len Bias legend had swelled to the point that it carried a strange cachet (and still does -- today, in the D.C. area, there is a rock band named after him). In the drug business, amid the perverse logic of celebrity that we would soon grow accustomed to, Tribble was...
The Sacrament: Directed by Ti West. With Joe Swanberg, AJ Bowen, Kentucker Audley, Gene Jones. A news team trails a man as he travels into the world of Eden Parish to find his missing sister, where it becomes apparent that this paradise may not be as it
He constantly throws out bizarre or shocking statements—whether it’s claiming the United States will “take over Gaza and build a Trump Gaza Plaza,” suggesting “America should buy Greenland,”“incorporate Canada into the United States,”“taking back the Panama Canal,” or claiming, without...
Joni Mitchell, ‘Blue’ Reprise, 1971 Powered by In 1971, Joni Mitchell represented the West Coast feminine ideal — celebrated by Robert Plant as “a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair” on Led Zeppelin’s “Goin’ to California.” It was a status that Mitche...
Smart E’s, Jon English, T-Spoon, Gilbert O’Sullivan, The Cockroaches, Toto Coelo, HeeBeeGeeBees, Doug Parkinson, Francis Lai, Ian Dury, Reg Livermore, Golden Earring, Steve Marriott, Shocking Blue, Manfred Man’s Earth Band, Kittie, Toni Visconti, Tom Waits, Sex Pistols, Denny Laine,...
party song produced by Mustard that has a euphoric hook and builds to a few shocking moments. Specifically when Kenny goes, “Certified Lover Boy? Certified pedophiles,” calling out the OVO crew for all their alleged dirt. It might be the defining lyric of the decade so far, in ways ...
His piercing blue eyes like the water of the lake where Django’s love Maria (Loredana Nusciak) is gunned down and he finally recognizes the depth of his feeling for her. The tufted brown of his hair like the crosses in the cemetery where he finally seizes his destiny. Nero is a ...
A gangster movie so fresh and bold, so brazen in its eroticism, so shocking in its bullet-in-the-eye violence that it effectively became the stake through the heart of the Hollywood studio system. Yet the aesthetic secret of “Bonnie and Clyde” is that it’s actually poised, with a one...
“Say My Name,” a clip in which original members LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson were nowhere to be found. Without any prior announcement, they had been replaced by Michelle Williams and Farrah Franklin. It turns out the news was just as shocking to Luckett and Roberson themselves. “I...
The French Bishops’ Conference slammed the tableau as a “mockery and derision of Christianity.” Mike Johnson, the right-wing Evangelical Speaker of the House in the United States Congress, decreed the performance “shocking and insulting to Christian people around the world.” The event’s arti...