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2026-06-25 19:00:03 (4 days ago)

Phoebe Bridgers: Lost Boys review – ghosts, guns and guileless youth on generational songwriter’s return

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The US singer took years off after becoming ‘world-weary’ of public life – and in the meantime, her silvery balladry reshaped pop. Her return is an ornate reinvention

In the press materials for Phoebe Bridgers’ return, the 31-year-old US singer talks about taking time to make her third album after coming to feel “a little world-weary” about public life. Who could blame her? Bridgers became a figure of invasive parasocial behaviour from fans after her spooked, sad second album, 2020’s Punisher, resonated with life under lockdown and made her a superstar. In recent years, young women making introspective and ornate indie-rock songs have risen to startling, pop star levels of fame and scrutiny – and none more so than Bridgers, her Boygenius supergroup with Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus, and their peer Mitski. When Bridgers was rumoured to be engaged in 2022, fans possessed by her devastating music rued her happiness; when she started a new relationship, the gossip mill churned. In 2023, she castigated the so-called fans who aggressed her in an airport while on the way to her father’s funeral.

Even her recent analogue return has prompted reactions that might have a less self-possessed artist wondering why they bother. Last month, mysterious posters started appearing in small towns across the US advertising surprise $1 Bridgers shows in intimate venues later that night, before a concluding gig at New York’s gigantic Madison Square Garden. Phones were banned, along with any kind of recording device, including pen and paper, to stop audience members from writing down lyrics from her third album and sharing them online. The backlash to this – some fans accused her of ableism – prompted its own backlash, a tiresome Russian doll of discourse that’s still dragging on.

The Guardian - World News

2026-06-25 19:00:02 (4 days ago)

Little Brother review – Netflix comedy is neither weird or funny enough for star Eric André

The surreal comedian struggles to sell a middling and mostly conventional film about an uptight realtor whose life is upturned by an unpredictable figure from his past

The specific, unforced strangeness of Eric André’s comedy hasn’t been an easy fit for Hollywood. His surreal and frequently hilarious late-night series The Eric André Show was an unpredictably odd and often violently catastrophic mix of awkward celebrity interviews and daring, dangerous on-the-street pranks and his manic, anything-for-the-bit energy marked him as someone execs would be unwise to entirely ignore.

But André didn’t really feel like someone who desperately needed industry approval and broader acceptance or the inevitable comedy vehicle that would come with it (those projects are also admittedly far less common than they once were). There was an attempt in 2020, a hidden camera hybrid comedy called Bad Trip that saw André lead a fictional narrative playing out in real locations with real people unwittingly cast alongside. But Covid forced a theatrical play into a Netflix premiere and while it had its moments (the zoo-based sexual assault is a work of crude genius), the format was a gamble that, for me, didn’t completely pay off (it was as hit-and-miss as a sketch show). The film’s looseness did at least feel like a more natural fit for André than his follow-up for the streamer, the far more conventional and far less amusing comedy Little Brother, the closest he has come to “fitting in”.

Fox News - Video

2026-06-25 18:59:17 (4 days ago)

'EMBOLDENED': Democratic Party establishment on endangered species list after socialist victories

Top Democrats face dilemma over whether to embrace far-left takeover or fight for traditional party values after Mayor Zohran Mamdani-backed candidates win big in New York City primaries.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-06-25 18:58:52 (4 days ago)

Fanatics Sportsbook launches program to identify, punish sports bettors who threaten athletes on social media

Fanatics Sportsbook launched the Bad Actor Program with IC360 and Signify Group to combat online abuse and threats targeting athletes from sports bettors.

New York Times - World News

2026-06-25 18:58:23 (4 days ago)

After Venezuela Earthquakes, La Guaira Residents Search for Loved Ones in the Rubble

A missing child. A boyfriend in the rubble. Venezuelans on Thursday were still trying to understand the scope of the devastation in this hard-hit city.

New York Times - World News

2026-06-25 18:57:49 (4 days ago)

Congo Ebola Crisis: Contact Tracing Is Dangerously Behind, Officials Warn

Most of the people testing positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo are not on health workers’ radar, suggesting that contact tracing is lagging dangerously behind.

Fox News - Video

2026-06-25 18:55:48 (4 days ago)

Stephen Miller: This is a victory 10 years in the making

White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller expresses concern over mass migration’s impact on American cities on ‘The Will Cain Show.’

Fox News - U.S. News

2026-06-25 18:55:09 (4 days ago)

Four charged in alleged billion dollar healthcare fraud tied to Russian transnational criminal organization

Four people in New Hampshire face charges in an alleged $3 billion healthcare fraud and money laundering scheme tied to a Russian criminal organization.

Fox News - Video

2026-06-25 18:53:14 (4 days ago)

Defeated Rep. Dan Goldman warns against rising antisemitism in Democratic Party

Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., a Jewish congressman, shares his concerns about the rising antisemitism in the Democratic Party after losing to anti-Israel opponent in primary

South China Morning Post - World News

2026-06-25 18:52:32 (4 days ago)

Venezuela earthquakes draw aid from governments that cut ties with Caracas

Venezuela received offers of rescue teams and humanitarian aid from across the Americas on Thursday, including from right-wing governments that had broken off diplomatic relations with Caracas less than two years ago, after two earthquakes killed at least 188 people. The quakes, of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 and 39 seconds apart, struck the north of the country on Wednesday evening and were the strongest to hit Venezuela in more than a century. Interim President Delcy Rodriguez declared a nationwide...

Fox News - Video

2026-06-25 18:48:24 (4 days ago)

Immigration attorney claims Americans will 'die and suffer' after SCOTUS ruling

Attorney Allen Orr argued on MS NOW that the Supreme Court's ruling on the Temporary Protected Status of migrants will lead to "devastating" results in the U.S.

Fox News - Video

2026-06-25 18:47:10 (4 days ago)

Defeated Rep. Dan Goldman warns against rising antisemitism in Democratic Party

Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., a Jewish congressman, shares his concerns about the rising antisemitism in the Democratic Party after losing to Israel critic in primary