On Tuesday in Los Angeles, A$AP Rocky left court a free man. The rapper, real name Rakim Mayers, was found not guilty of shooting his onetime collaborator A$AP Relli, in Hollywood in 2021, having been charged with two felony counts …
How porn swallowed everything
During the Super Bowl, some 127 million viewers witnessed an up-close parade of gleamy-creamy jiggling breasts covered in cantaloupe-coloured spandex as part of an advertisement for . . . breast-cancer awareness, sponsored by pharmaceutical company Novartis. The message was that …
How the Super Bowl stole football’s soul
For Americans, bigger is always better. We “go big or go home”. Big Pharma makes our medicine and Big Tech builds our phones. We wash down Big Macs with Big Gulps and jam to Biggie Smalls. College football is much …