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Five weeks after giving birth to her son, the singer-songwriter Lucy Rose had a pressing question for the other new mothers at her NCT baby group. “I was like: is anyone else’s back killing them?” None of the women were able to empathise but Rose still managed to persuade herself that the excruciating pain she was in must be a normal part of the gruelling postpartum experience.Until a few days later. Rose was lifting her son Otis out of his cot, when “my whole body collapsed, then my back started spasming. That’s probably…

It’s good to be bold, which is why Rolling Stone and Jack Daniel’s have made their own bold move, partnering for the first ever Musicians on Musicians Latino series. The multi-part event is part of the larger Jack Presenta initiative, which over the last few years has not just celebrated the world of Latin music, but worked to elevate the voices of today’s Latin artists and bring them directly to fans and enthusiasts. Now, through a unique expansion of Rolling Stone’s iconic Musicians on Musicians series, the two…

A woman walks past vehicles on a city ring-road clogged with heavy traffic in Beijing on Aug. 13, 2019. China's auto exports surged 63.7% in 2023 while sales at home, boosted by year-end incentives, rose 4.2%, an industry association said Thursday, Jan. 11. Credit: AP Photo/Andy Wong, File China's auto exports surged 63.7% in 2023 while sales at home, boosted by year-end incentives, rose 4.2%, an industry association said…

Your drive into the office likely takes longer than ever. Your holiday travel plans may have been delayed, then delayed again. And you’ve probably noticed how common it is for the driver next to you to be distracted by the blue glow of their phone. Whether you’re stuck in rush hour traffic, behind an erratic and dangerous driver, or witnessing a crash on the side of the road, it’s easy to feel like our transportation system is moving in the wrong direction—that driving is getting worse instead of getting better. …

Credit: RDNE Stock project from Pexels Colleges in states where recreational marijuana became legal over the past decade saw a significant but short-term boost in applications from top-notch students. They also got more applications overall. Those were the key findings of a new study our team published recently in the peer-reviewed journal Contemporary Economic Policy. …

Back in the halcyon days of the early 2020s, when we were optimistic about the vaccines and our new President and the general health and stability of superhero franchises, there was a meme called the yassification trend. It basically entailed taking photos of prominent historical figures — Alexander Hamilton, for instance, or Kramer from Seinfeld — and running them through a filter that made them look heavily Botoxed, contoured, and filtered, like your most insecure friend’s Stories from her vacation. The…

The three C’s of current TV documentary programming are celebrity, crime and cults, and the new Lifetime docuseries The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard checks off the first two with ruthless, pinpoint efficiency. The subject, a young woman who arranged for the murder of her deranged, abusive mother in 2015, has become a media sensation, the subject of a previous dramatic miniseries (Hulu’s The Act, from 2019) and now a TikTok sensation about to release her own memoir. Let there be no underestimating the…

Trigger warning: this story contains explicit descriptions of sexual assaultGypsy Rose Blanchard alleged childhood molestation by her grandfather, who denied it in an astonishing turn.In Lifetime’s upcoming docuseries The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Gypsy Rose claimed that she was sexually abused as a child by her grandfather, Claude Pitre.She told People in an exclusive interview: “I’ve gotten to a point where I can stand on my own two feet and say, this happened to me and I’m not going to let it affect…

Doctor Who viewers are willing to accept a lot of things—fascist pepperpots, farting skinsuit aliens, children-kidnapping goblins with Christmas number 1 ambitions, the existence of travel in time and space in general. But some of them just couldn’t deal with a singular trans character appearing in recent episodes. To which, the BBC says: tough, you’ve gotta deal with it anyway.Let’s Eat a Chocolate Xbox ControllerIt was reported last month that the broadcaster received 144 complaints about the first of the three Doctor…

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, fresh out of prison, has her sights set on a powerful ally in the realm of prison reform – none other than Kim Kardashian. While they haven't sat down for a chat just yet, Gypsy is eager to glean insights from Kim's experience in the justice system and her impactful work on prison reform. Gypsy Rose Blanchard reaches out to Kim Kardashian on Twitter, expressing interest in collaborating on prison reform. Gypsy's message from behind the bars:Back in November, Gypsy reached out to Kim on…