Pity was the first emotion Richard Gadd felt when he clapped eyes on the woman who would become his stalker. He was a struggling stand-up comic working behind the bar at a pub in London.

Sherman Hemsley, the actor who played George Jefferson, was known to be a huge fan of prog rock, especially Gentle Giant, Nektar and Gong. Hemsley collaborated with Yes’s Jon Anderson on a funk-rock opera about the “spiritual qualities of the number 7” (never produced). Hemsley also did an interpretive dance tothe Gentle Giant song “Proclamation” onDinah Shore’s 70s talkshow, that was apparently somewhat confusing for her. But the best story, I mean the best story of all time, is the one told by Gong’s Daevid Allen about his encounter with the beloved 70’s sitcom star.Here is Allen’s verbatim tale as related toMitch Myers (and originally published in Magnet magazine): “It was 1978 or 1979, and Sherman Hemsley kept ringing me up. I didn’t know him from a bar of soap because we didn’t have television in Spain (where I was living). He called me from Hollywood saying, ‘I’m one of...

The organization has abandoned some of the people it exists to protect.

Protesters arrested in city’s historic French Quarter as witnesses allege officers used ‘indiscriminate’ force to clear protest

You have probably forgotten about the guy who worked at National Public Radio and got so upset because of how woke it was that he wrote a furious post about it for Bari Weiss's newsletter, which I believe is called That's Such A Good Point, Sir. This is entirely for the best. That story wasn't really built to last, and not only because a man in his 50s realizing that he feels increasingly out of step with younger coworkers is not something that would ordinarily be considered "a story" on the merits. Sometimes these things hit, and sometimes they don't, and the industrial process through which the grim grousings of mediocre conservatives are laundered into dispatches from the bloody front of a culture war depends more than anything on inputs. The raw material from which that stuff is refined—various defective human instincts; a high baseline level of politicized bad faith and elite panic; the unremarkable and unreflective people most susceptible to all that—is abundant and of low value. This is a volume business.

Finance professor accused of killing cop boyfriend is being ‘framed’ in cover-up, her defence attorneys say

Paramount CEO Bob Bakish's ouster comes a day after David Ellison's Skydance Media sweetened its offer for Shari Redstone's National Amusements, with money earmarked for Paramount's Class B shareholders.

The longtime State Department official and Iran-Contra player on Israel’s war in Gaza and his own record in Latin America.

Both Mayor Charles Burkett and Chief Henry Doce believe that the officer involved could have been more empathetic to the distressed supermodel.

Public spending on private sweep contractors is soaring across the state – and unhoused people allege poor treatment

"Just a prank, bro" excuse.

A Catholic group has defrocked an AI-generated priest chatbot after it stirred controversy among the faithful.

“I’m hearing from credible sources who know what’s going on in the courtroom, and what I’m hearing is that – take it for what it’s worth – but that Donald Trump is actually farting in the courtroom and that it’s very stinky around him,” Meiselas said. “It’s a putrid odor in the courtroom and Trump’s lawyers are like repulsed by the scent and the smell.”

The threat, we are told here this weekend, is existential, biological, epoch-defining. Economies will fail, civilizations will fall, and it will all happen because people aren’t having enough babies.

The medical syringe has become a tool of control during police encounters, a practice that quietly spread based on questionable science.

Donald Trump continues to hold an advantage over President Joe Biden as the campaign – and Trump’s criminal trial – move forward, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. And in the coming rematch, opinions about the first term of each man vying for a second four years in the White House now appear to work in Trump’s favor, with most Americans saying that, looking back, Trump’s term as president was a success, while a broad majority says Biden’s has so far been a failure.

It takes thousands of people to keep a few alive on the ISS. The plutocrat space race is not serious

Rodeo stars find purpose in navigating primal forces. None of them ever went harder than J.B. Mauney.

The powerful eruption lofted ash high into the atmosphere and spread tephra and other volcanic debris across the small island in Indonesia.

When asked to explain why, Sorkin delivered a classic Sorkin quip, "You're going to need to buy a movie ticket."