The year was 1990. The Berlin Wall had fallen. The Gulf War had begun. Nirvana was on their first major tour. And something called the internet was creeping from university campuses into bulky home computers. If you remember that moment in time, you also remember MTV, the pop culture juggernaut where music, sex, politics and youth culture slammed together at dizzying speed. And that’s partly because of Mark Pellington, one of the main engines behind MTV Buzz. Subversive and loud, MTV Buzz helped launch RuPaul’s career and raise Gen X awareness of voting rights, safe sex and even the Israeli-Palestinian…

EXCLUSIVE: India’s record-breaking Baahubali universe is expanding, and they’re joining forces with a familiar collaborator. Baahubali: The Eternal War, a new animated film based on the franchise, is using the A&M MoCap Lab at Hyderabad’s Annapurna Studios for previsualisation of its most complex sequences, marking a new chapter for both…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — New details about one of hip-hop’s most enduring mysteries — the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur — could finally come to light in the upcoming trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis. Davis, 63, is accused of orchestrating the drive-by shooting near the Las Vegas…

Business & Money

The July jobs numbers loss of 23,000 was bigger than it sounds on the surface. The Dow Jones regular poll of economists showed a median expectation of 83,000 jobs to be added. The actual result was a negative swing of 106,000 jobs. Now add in the revisions that brought the…

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