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Editor’s note: For anyone who lived through the ascent of flamboyant guitar music in the 1970s or has a residual fondness for these monsters of rock that continued to thrive into the ’80s beyond, there could be no more entertaining read than “They Just Seem a Little Weird: How KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz Remade Rock and Roll.

After years of covering HIV and AIDS, journalist Steven Thrasher knew that the hardest hit communities were almost always the poorest and most marginalized ones. Then COVID-19 struck, and he saw that the same groups of people were suffering the most. In his new book The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide, Thrasher explores how this pattern plays out in communities around the world. Guest host Tracie Hunte talks to him about the ways that systemic oppression puts marginalized people at greater risk of infection for all diseases – and also blames them for transmission.

This señorita is in vacation mode.   Camila Cabello recently gave fans quite the glimpse into her trip to Puerto Rico sharing some NSFW snaps on social media. Among the carousel of cheeky photos is a pair featuring the "Havana" singer skinny-dipping in a pool holding onto a tree and smiling back at the camera. In one pic she uses butterfly emojis cover her private areas while the other features a more close up shot of her face. The vacation photo dump also included a video from behind of the 26-year-old clad in just neon green bikini bottoms pulling on a rope that dumps a bucket of water onto her.

Redeem now At least 16 Hallmark stores are closing in the first half of 2020."It's just not a viable business any longer," one Hallmark store owner told the Forest Park Review. "People used to buy and send cards all the time. It's all online now. Everyone celebrates their birthdays on social media."Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. It's a tough time to be in the greeting-card business. 

Hugh Hefner was also an actor. Well, kind of. Okay, the late Playboy founder, who died Wednesday at age 91, mostly played himself onscreen. But his appearances, most of them cameos, brought delight to audiences worldwide. Onscreen, Hef was typically accompanied by his gaggle of girlfriends. He also made frequent appearances on the E! reality show The Girls Next Door, which mostly concentrated on his live-in beauties Holly Madison, Kendra Wilkinson-Baskett and Bridget Marquardt. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7prvNpaCnnV6YvK57zZ6urGdobYB2hJdon66fmGK1prLNnqlmq12ivLe1xGaYp5xdqcNur8CmnKir

When it comes to a career that’s netted him two Oscar nominations, a Tony, six Olivier Awards and a reputation as one of the preeminent Shakespearean actors of his generation, Ian McKellen usually has critics exhausting the superlatives. But he’s not immune to the rare bruising notice, and when that happens, he calls his friends. “The best thing is to let everyone know that I’ve read it and they needn’t pussyfoot around it,” he says.

President Trump and his supporters have often complained about the "deep state" — a supposedly shadowy cabal of opposition bureaucrats buried deep within the government. But perhaps the biggest impediment to the president isn't the deep state at all. It's the "shallow state" — which exists right below Donald Trump at the Cabinet level. After all, there's a distinct pattern in the administration. The president makes a claim that seems to contradict longstanding policy.

Are Jesuits Allowed to Kill People?: It’s looking like Martin Scorsese’s next film will be Silence, based on the Shusaku Endo novel. Daniel Day-Lewis, Benicio Del Toro, and Gael Garcia Bernal are all in talks to star (awesome). The story revolves around two Jesuit missionaries under heat in seventeenth-century Japan, and is reportedly nothing like this. [Variety] Patel Airs It Out: Dev Patel is displaying some of the gutsiness of Jamal Malik, his Slumdog Millionaire character: The young actor has willingly joined the cast of M.

Joel Embiid is one of the 4 players who are in the MVP conversations. He has had a fabulous regular season putting up elite-level averages. With James Harden, Embiid and the Sixers are set for the playoffs. Embiid has also finished the season as the scoring leader, averaging 30.6 points per game. Off the court, Embiid has a net worth of $35 million. ‘The Process’, despite all the riches, does not spend like other NBA players.