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A Lauren Boebert Constituent And Vietnam Vet Fired Off A Disgust-Filled Letter After She Proposed Honoring The AR-15 As The ‘National Gun’

It’s no secret that rootin’ tootin’ Lauren Boebert loves guns. Still, she rants about (and stumbles upon, and creates unintentional comedy from) so many other subjects that some of her attempted maneuvers slip through the cracks.

Back in February, for example, Boebert introduced a bill that showcased her fixation with the Second Amendment. This actually shouldn’t be too surprising, given that Boebert recently posed with a t-shirt that jokingly (?) renamed guns as “hole punchers,” and that “humor” didn’t go over well, especially amid a fresh wave of U.S. mass shootings. Still, Boebert is triggered by criticism of her gun-filled Christmas photos, and she wants to enshrine the AR-15 as the “national gun.” Really!

In response, a constituent tore Boebert a new one in a letter published by both the Aspen Daily News and the Denver Post, posted below in part:

“An AR–15 style rifle chambered in a .223 Remington round or a 5.56x45mm NATO round is hereby declared to be the National Gun of the United States.”

The bolded quote above is the entire text of H.R. 1095, a bill introduced in Congress on Feb. 17 and cosponsored by our congresswoman, Lauren Boebert. One of her co-sponsors on the bill is none other than George Santos, the congressman who faked virtually every aspect of his life. Is this a cruel joke?

The AR-15 assault rifle Boebert wants to make our “National Gun” is a weapon of war. Its bullets are designed to tear human flesh to pieces by “yawing”, tumbling or fragmenting in the body, thereby causing maximum internal bleeding and tissue damage. I am a Vietnam War vet, and the M-16s we carried there were an offshoot of the AR-15. The Army always told us it was the best rifle in the world because of how efficiently it killed “the enemy”.

You can read the rest of the letter here, and that bill is truly bonkers stuff. Yet it seems characteristic for the owner of former restaurant Shooter’s Grill because Boebert even encouraged staff to open carry while… waiting tables.

(Via Aspen Daily News & Denver Post)

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Here Are The Sick New World Festival Set Times For 2023

People have had since last November to get excited about the inaugural Sick New World festival. The headliners are System Of A Down, Deftones, Korn, and Incubus. Evanescence, Papa Roach, and Turnstile are also among the artists who will perform across the Purple, Green, Spiral, and Sick stages.

Sick New World is taking over Las Vegas Festival Grounds this Saturday, May 13, and the festival has revealed the day’s full schedule.

Doors will open at 11 a.m. local time, and 50 acts are crammed between then and System Of A Down’s headlining set, beginning at 10 p.m on the Purple stage, which will host Deftones at 7:20 p.m. Korn is scheduled to go on at 8:40 on the Green stage, following Incubus at 6 p.m. Evanescence is assigned to the Purple stage at 5:15 p.m., and Turnstile is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. on the Green stage.

The Purple stage will be rounded out by Chevelle (3:55 p.m.), Death Grips (2:45 p.m.), Flyleaf with Lacey Sturm (1:35 p.m.), and P.O.D. (12:25 p.m.). Meanwhile, the rest of Green stage’s itinerary will be filled by Mr. Bungle (3:20 p.m.), Papa Roach (2:10 p.m.), Soulfly (1 p.m.), and Alien Ant Farm (11:50 a.m.).

Elsewhere, the Spiral and Sick stages will be going nonstop from Scowl at 11:35 a.m. on the Sick stage to The Sisters Of Mercy at 11 p.m. on Spiral. Sick New World left a comment on its own Instagram post noting that Loathe’s Sick stage set has been moved to 6 p.m. to make way for Hoobastank at 7:10 p.m.

See the full schedule of set times and other information about the festival below.

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Anita Baker Apparently Asked Babyface Not To Perform His Opening Set In New Jersey, Which Left Many Fans Upset

Concertgoers are having a tough time this year. Last month, Morgan Wallen fans were sitting at the Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi waiting for him to perform after all the openers went on. Then, he ended up canceling the show. At an Anita Baker concert in Newark, New Jersey left attendees similarly upset last night (May 10).

The audience waited two hours and were told it was due to a technical glitch. Babyface did not perform at all. However, he took to Instagram to share that it was because Baker apparently didn’t want him to.

“I am truly sorry to my fans who have been waiting for us to hit the stage this evening at the Prudential Center,” he wrote. “I was asked not to perform in order to give Ms. Baker her space and time to perform her show in its entirety. My band and I are extremely saddened we didn’t get to perform for y’all tonight.”

Fans are expressing their disappointment in Baker on social media, but she’s yet to comment on the situation.

In 2021, Baker made headlines for regaining control over her masters after her previous label refused to return them and then being praised by Taylor Swift for it.

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LeBron James On Steve Kerr’s Claim The Lakers Look For Calls: ‘That’s Just Not Us’

The disparity in free throw shooting in the lead-up to Game 5 of the Western Conference Semifinals between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Golden State Warriors was the Lakers’ major edge at getting to the free throw line. Prior to the two teams squaring off at Chase Center on Wednesday night, Warriors coach Steve Kerr brought up their “gamesmanship,” telling the press that “you give them credit, but you lament the fact that, as a league, we’re gonna reward that type of play with … the game and the series and all that stuff at stake, you would hope that the officials would recognize when a guy just takes a dive.”

Golden State would go on to win Game 5, 121-106, with both teams getting to the line 15 times and the Warriors actually hitting two more. After the game, LeBron James was asked about Kerr’s comments, and stressed that the Lakers don’t do that.

“We’re just not a team that goes out there looking for flopping opportunities,” James said. “That’s just not us, it’s actually never been any team that I’ve played on in my 20 years where we’ve been a flopping team. But, it is what it is, they have the right to say what they want to say.”

Wednesday night marked the first game in the series that Golden State both had as many free throw attempts as and more points from the charity stripe than Los Angeles.

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Here Are All The Custom Outfits Beyoncé Wore For The ‘Renaissance World Tour’ Opener

Beyoncé opened her Renaissance World Tour at Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden on Wednesday, May 10, and suddenly, the Beyhive had plenty of reasons to forget their collective displeasure over Beyoncé holding back the Renaissance visuals since the album’s July 2022 release.

The Renaissance World Tour featured Beyoncé in all her glory, and one person on Twitter did the Lord’s work by documenting every single outfit Queen Bey wore on stage throughout her all-encompassing set.

Vogue relayed that Beyoncé’s custom looks were designed by Anrealage, Jonathan Anderson, Olivier Rousteing for Balmain, David Koma, and more.

“Overall, the tour feels like a fabulous embodiment of the techno and ballroom-infused sound of Renaissance, which Beyoncé has described as an ode to dance music and queer culture,” Vogue‘s André-Naquian Wheeler wrote. “They also continue the singer’s streak of ostentatiously avant-garde couture fashion for the album’s innovative visual campaigns. A teaser for ‘I’m That Girl,’ which runs a little under two minutes, featured a chaotic flurry of over a dozen custom looks by Schiaparelli, Balenciaga, and others. Beyoncé is well and truly in her fashion girl era.”

Members of the Beyhive who weren’t present for opening night in Sweden have another chance at Friends Arena tonight, May 11, before the Renaissance World Tour moves to Brussels, Belgium on May 14. See all of the dates here.

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Howard Stern Did Not Hold Back On The ‘Disgusting’ Coronation Of ‘P*ssy’ King Charles

Howard Stern didn’t hold back his thoughts on the Coronation of King Charles that consumed England over the past weekend. The shock jock blasted the event, which somehow culminated in an American Idol cameo, and the whole country for pretending that their new monarch is some sort of war hero.

“First of all Prince Charles is a p*ssy,” Stern said to begin his rant. “That’s number one. And people are acting – the whole ceremony they’re acting like that f*cking guy went to war or something and then beat up all the other people. They’re like ‘We swear our allegiance to you and you’re a great warrior. I mean the whole thing is f*cking nuts and in this day and age.”

After mocking the praise heaped on Prince Charles, Stern got serious and tackled the economic reality of the lavish event. Via Variety:

“It was disgusting and I’ll tell you why it’s disgusting,” said Stern. “It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to say this but England’s having its own economic problems and they spent a fortune on that coronation. And it’s just repugnant to watch a country who’s suffering through economic problems and then you see the pomp and circumstance.”

Of course, Howard had some thoughts on King Charles and Camilla the Queen appearing on American Idol, which is reportedly believed the deal that was reached to get Katy Perry and Lionel Richie to perform at the Coronation after several acts refused to serenade the event.

“They’re like two wooden boards, they’re like vampires, they’re stiff,” Stern quipped. “I thought they were cardboard cut outs at first they wheeled [on].”

(Via Variety)

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Wu-Tang Clan Really Is For The Children, Rihanna And ASAP Rocky Proved By Reportedly Naming Their Baby After One Of The Rappers

Rihanna kicked off this year with a colossal Super Bowl halftime performance packed with hits and a pregnancy announcement. However, the name of her son who she had with her boyfriend ASAP Rocky (real name Rakim Athelston Mayers) last year has remained unknown… until now.

According to The Daily Mail, who obtained the birth certificate, the name is RZA Athelston Mayers. Since Rihanna has been spotted in Wu-Tang Clan merch, it’s safe to assume it’s a reference to the member of the group.

The “Diamonds” singer was also turning heads at the Met Gala earlier this month. She was fashionably late and discussed how her second pregnancy has been. “It’s so different from the first one! Just everything,” she said. “All of my… no cravings, tons of nausea, everything’s different. But I’m enjoying it, I’m enjoying it. I feel good. I feel energetic.”

In December of last year, Rocky talked about being a father. “Honestly, I think fatherhood gives me more time to do exactly what I want,” he said. “I don’t have time for anything that isn’t priorities. It helps you prioritize, honestly. I love it. Everything is just based around my newfound love for being a dad and a family man. It’s lit right now. I can’t even describe it. Yo, you see this smile! I’m all smiles right now, man.”

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Emma Stone Is Brought Back To Life (To Slap Mark Ruffalo) In The ‘Poor Things’ Teaser Trailer

Yorgos Lanthimos’ movies are, to a certain degree (and for lack of a better word), weird. Think: the dance scene in The Lobster; the spaghetti scene in The Killing of a Sacred Deer; basically every scene in Dogtooth. But even by his high standards, Lanthimos’ next film, Poor Things, looks weird as hell.

In the fantastical and heavily stylized teaser above, Emma Stone slaps Mark Ruffalo in the face, Willem Dafoe has a fascinating scar, and Ramy Youssef looks like an evil scientist. “I am finding being alive fascinating,” Stone says at one point. Same, except I am finding Poor Things fascinating.

Here’s the official plot synopsis:

From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.

Poor Things, which is based on Alasdair Gray’s novel of the same name with a screenplay from Tony McNamara (The Favourite), opens on September 8.

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Casa Bonita’s Shroud Of Secrecy Is Leading To ‘CIA’ Comparisons After Fans Gathered For A (False) Rumored Reopening Date

To say that people are excited about the South Park creators resurrecting Casa Bonita would be a profane understatement. The “eatertainment” venue expects millions of visitors annually, and that does sound realistic. Heck, there’s already a planned camp-out event in the works for fans who are ready for the eventual opening date. And when will that be? Trey Parker and Matt Stone (along with famed chef Dana “Loco” Rodriguez) previously announced that May is the magic month, and yet, no specific date has been offered. And people are getting a little antsy, it seems.

The Denver Post recently relayed that all necessary permits are in place, and there are less than three weeks left in May, so when will the sopapillas flow? The Denver Gazette reports that, in response to a rumor that appears to have begun on social media, eager fans did gather in hopes that the doors would fly open on Cinco de Mayo. Alas, this did not happen, and a worker in a nearby establishment had an apt comparison:

Casa Bonita faithful chased a red herring Friday, and some even turned out to be first-in-line for a rumored opening, but new owners and “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were Cinco de Mayo no-shows.

“It’s all so secretive. It’s like working next door to the CIA,” Terry King said.

King also revealed that he heard about a cell-phone ban among workers ahead of the opening, and even “that security guards had to turn off their body-worn cameras.” And it’s no wonder because, surely, the new owners don’t want secrets posted on Instagram before those cliff divers are fully ready to roll. One of the establishment’s fans, Stefanni Bonicelli, was present at the Cinco de Mayo false start and is quoted as wistfully wishing, “I just hope the food is better this time around.” Well, Parker and Stone did promise to introduce the novelty of “good” food to the Casa Bonita world, so the wait should be worth it.

Still, tick tock, guys.

(Via Denver Gazette & Denver Post)

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Nick Jonas Knows Singing Songs About Sex With His Brothers Is ‘A Little Strange’

Jonas Brothers have a new album, The Album, on the way in a matter of hours now. The fraternal trio isn’t in a particularly unique position of being in a band with family members, but there’s still parts of the experience that are weird. For example: singing songs about sex with your brothers by your side.

A new feature from Bustle notes of a track from the new album, “The low-slung bedroom jam ‘Summer In The Hamptons’ might offer a little bit of insight into how all those next-gen Jonas babies got here, judging by the spelled-out metaphor in the chorus (as in ‘sex with you is like…’) and undulating refrain of ‘champagne ocean, sky wide open, raw emotion.’”

Kevin said of the song, “It’s just natural to speak about your life and where you’re at. Like, that’s my wife and partner in crime of 13 years, you know?” Nick then offered, “We’re always conscious that we’re three brothers singing on stage together. So when we speak about sex specifically, it’s gotta be kind of a nuanced thing, otherwise it can be a little strange.”

Joe added, “Obviously we’re not duetting those songs. Very individual singing in that.”

Read the full feature here.