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The Lucifer writers definitely know how to leave a lasting image and impression with their season finales, and “A Chance At A Happy Ending” is no different in that regard.
Birthplace of America's music, stronghold of prohibition and injustice. (AdobeStock) The Haymaker is Leafly Senior Editor Bruce Barcott’s opinion column about cannabis politics and culture. The past few months have seen amazing progress on cannabis reform in the American South. Last November, 74% of voters in Mississippi embraced the legalization of medical cannabis. In February, Virginia lawmakers legalized the full adult use of marijuana—and then two months later sped up the date of legal possession to July 2021. In early May, legislators legalized medical marijuana way down in Alabama....
Print Shock G, the rapper, songwriter and producer who helped take hip-hop into the pop mainstream in the early 1990s with “The Humpty Dance” by his Oakland-based group Digital Underground, has died, according to an Instagram post by his former bandmate Chopmaster J. The rapper, born Gregory Jacobs, was found dead Thursday in a hotel room in Tampa, Fla., TMZ reported, attributing the news to Jacobs’ father, who didn’t state a cause. He was 57. Performing as his alter ego Humpty Hump — “pronounced with a ‘umpty,’” as he advised in the song — Shock G struck a proudly comic p...
Putin’s Answer to U.S. Sanctions Is More Economic Isolation Bloomberg 1 hr ago Natasha Doff and Anya Andrianova (Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to respond to the latest round of U.S. sanctions threats as he has to past ones: by speeding his drive to make Russia’s economy more self-sufficient. In the seven years since Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Putin’s government and central bank have stripped back the country’s exposure to dollars, shifted assets out of the U.S. and sold a smaller share of its debt to foreigners. “The Americans are s...
7 April 1981 In the 1980s, Motown was entering a new era, one that was far less sure. The label—born in Michigan and fathered by Berry Gordy—defined Black pop music in the 1960s. After amassing countless No. 1 hits and a constellation of stars who rivaled MGM, Gordy’s ambition and vision for his project took him from Detroit to Los Angeles in the 1970s. There, he expanded his empire from music to television and film production. In this period of transition, Rick James’ sound embodied the label’s fractured identity, largely characterized by the innovative, assembly-line sound Motown...