On Wednesday’s Full Frontal, Samantha Bee examined the inadequacies of American revenge porn laws, using the upcoming resignation of first-term Congresswoman Katie Hill (D-Calif.) as a springboard into that important discussion. Hill will step down on Friday after acknowledging an inappropriate relationship with a campaign staffer — a decision that …

What defines a millennial? They’ve been called “Generation Me” for presumed narcissism and the “Peter Pan Generation” for delayed adulthood. But the only thing that may really define a millennial is that we’re indefinable. So what the hell is the “millennial identity?” People born between 1980 and 1995 have had …

UPDATE (10/29): Following the publication of this story, Sean Hall, one of the plaintiffs in the case, released the following statement to Rolling Stone:“We are happy the court unanimously sided with us. We simply refuse to sit still and have our creative work be culturally appropriated as if it never …

“It was two guys hanging out in a kitchen making a movie,” says Thom Zimny. The two guys in question happened to be Bruce Springsteen and Zimny himself: They co-directed the new movie Western Stars, which captures powerful live performances of Springsteen’s latest album in its entirety, along with pensive …

A review of this week’s Watchmen, “Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship,” coming up just as soon as we play pirates and owls… Second episodes are hard — especially when they come after memorable, high-concept pilots. Occasionally, a classic pilot will be followed by a classic second episode (Breaking Bad‘s “The …

Last month, Donald Lawrence, an acclaimed gospel veteran with a half-dozen hits, attended a preview party for Kanye West‘s Jesus Is King album at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago. “He did a song called ‘Selah’ that was rap and choir,” Lawrence recalls. “When they got to the hook, it was …

Around the same time that Stephen King released his 1982 novella, Apt Pupil — in which a teen accuses a neighborhood man of being a Nazi criminal — a real-life alleged former Nazi was uncovered in Cleveland, Ohio. Retired Ukranian-American autoworker John Demjanjuk, a family man, found himself accused of …

Rose McGowan has filed a federal lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein and others, referred to as the “Weinstein-Protection Enterprise,” accusing them of a “pattern of racketeering” carried out in their alleged attempts to keep the actress from revealing that Weinstein allegedly raped her at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. The suit, …

Some people sniff markers when they’re young, chasing a thrill. Others smoke banana peels. Iggy Pop, however, found more iconoclastic ways to get high. When he was asked on The Jonathan Ross Show recently if he once stuck his tongue in an electrical outlet for a buzz (har har) he …

Clare Dunn doesn’t let empty pockets keep her from a good time, Madison Kozak laments a flaky lover, and Austin Jenckes looks to Memphis for inspiration in this week’s list of the best country and Americana songs. Clare Dunn, “Money’s All Gone” Years after playing a string of North American …