Tagged: Barack Obama

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Watch Obama and The Roots Slow Jam on Fallon

Barack Obama joined Jimmy Fallon and his house band The Roots last night, to make the case that the interest rates on subsidized student loans should remain low when they’re re-evaluated by Congress this summer. … read more »

POSTED April 25, 2012 10:12AM IN MUSIC NEWS TAGS: , , , ,
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Beyonce and Her Mom Made a T-Shirt for Obama

Beyonce can do anything, right? Yes, obviously. So when America’s favorite new mom and her mother Tina designed a high-end T-shirt in support of Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, you gratefully accept this. Is the T-shirt … read more »

POSTED January 12, 2012 6:30PM IN ART+CULTURE NEWS, STYLE NEWS Comments (2) TAGS: , , ,
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Grammys Trash Talk: Justin Bieber Fans Attack Esperanza Spalding, Lady Gaga Steals Ideas, Cee-Lo as Sun Ra

Last night at the 53rd Grammy awards, Wayne and Minaj walked the red carpet together but were absent from the events broadcast. Lady Gaga traversed the red carpet in an egg supported by pallbearers. When … read more »

POSTED February 14, 2011 10:03AM IN MUSIC NEWS Comments (2) TAGS: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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T-Pain Got a Facebook Tattoo

We watched Barack Obama’s State of The Union Address on Tuesday night. In it he said, We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices; the nation of Edison and the … read more »

POSTED January 28, 2011 1:00PM IN MUSIC NEWS Comments (1) TAGS: , ,
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Coincidence? Same Publisher Releases Prodigy Autobiography and Anonymous Obama Book

Venerable publishing house Simon & Schuster is getting heaps of publicity for two of its pending book releases. The first, O: A Presidential Novel (out January 25), sounds absolutely ridiculous, a semi-fictionalized (or not) account … read more »

POSTED January 20, 2011 5:30PM IN ART+CULTURE NEWS Comments (1) TAGS: , , ,
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The Way Things Work: George Washington vs. Barack Obama

Presidential parties are a lot tamer than they were a couple hundred years ago—which bodes well for Washington DC’s statues and monuments.

POSTED July 12, 2010 3:30PM IN THE WAY THINGS WORK TAGS: , ,

Obama Pwn3s Congress with Well-Timed Bob Dylan Concert

Barack, you need to stop making fun of the people we elected all the time because they are going to start thinking that you think that their job is to do what’s good for the … read more »

POSTED February 10, 2010 4:24PM IN THE TRIPWIRE Comments (1) TAGS: , ,

Usain Bolt Adopts Baby Cheetah

Now that the New York City Marathon has ended we can all go back to doing what we do normally: obsess over Usain Bolt. The Lightning has been taking a break from JA to hang … read more »

POSTED November 2, 2009 5:41PM IN ART+CULTURE NEWS Comments (1) TAGS: , , ,

Pitchfork Founder Ryan Schreiber Nominated For Time 100

Holy shit. Ryan Schreiber, founder of Pitchfork Media, has been nominated as a finalist for The Time 100 Most Influential People in the World. Alongside Vladimir Putin, Pope Benedict XVI, Robert Mugabe, Barack Obama and Rush Limbaugh sits our very own indie compadre Mr. Schreiber. read more »

POSTED March 30, 2009 3:44PM IN THE TRIPWIRE TAGS: , , , , , ,

Video: Ya Boy, “I Got The Power”

What music artist has Spencer Pratt of “The Hills” and E-40′s son in his top MySpace friends? We’ll give you three guesses. The correct answer gets a pencil-sketch of Turbo B and Barack Obama shaking … read more »

POSTED January 26, 2009 11:45AM IN MUSIC VIDEO TAGS: ,