Let’s go way back to when Tipper Gore’s Parent Music Resource Group or PRMC went on a rampage, attacking artists and trying to censor music. In this roundtable discussion on Oprah, Jello Biafra — in a suit, no less — wasn’t having it and just tears into Gore. Show More Summary
The black and white parental advisory sticker that Tipper Gore worked so hard to place on jewel cases in the mid '80s is becoming another cultural artifact fit for a listicle about the way we used to do stuff. If you want to download...Show More Summary
Despite what Nancy Regan and the Tipper Gore might want us to believe drug culture and popular culture are irrefutably linked. Nowhere is the link more pronounced than in popular music, the art form that certainly has the most symbiotic nature with the ebb and flow of drug culture.
Greetings, people of 1985! Science has some teeeeeeeerrifying, spoooooooooooky news for you today! A new study published in the journal of Tipper Gore (DON'T TOUCH OR U WILL BE CURSED) Pediatrics reveals that your precious young ones are in grave danger of poisoning their brains with the devil's music. Show More Summary
Back in the election year of 2000, Family Circle magazine had a cookie bake-off between Tipper Gore and Laura Bush. While I’m sure Tipper’s gingersnaps were admirable, Laura’s big Texas cowboy cookies ran away with the prize. And for...Show More Summary
Slog tipper Mike Gore points our attention to a crisis gripping the internet: Last week the Associated Press declared war on the word "homophobia," deciding its new stylebook would ban it (and "Islamophobia") because a "phobia" is an...Show More Summary
Quotes of the Day Writer questions Facebook friend advice “OK, Facebook, I’ll bite: WHY do you think Tipper Gore and I should be friends (or, you know, ‘friends’)?” — Former Yahoo! News’ Deputy Editor and author Chris Lehman. TV reporter has potentially psycho cleaning lady “Ok, my cleaning lady is GASLIGHTING ME! tell her not to do laundry. Show More Summary
It’s amicable. Living far from glorious friendly Washington, she’s in Santa Barbara. Now happy. Dating a photographer. But the split’s civilized. She sees Al, they speak, even recently vacationed together. It’s just that they don’t anymore want to live together.
The Guardian has a useful overview of Mike Love’s particular brand of greatness…
There were the endless, interminable lawsuits directed at his various fellow Beach Boys. The $5,000 seed money he donated to Tipper Gore’s Parent’s Music...Show More Summary
Tipper Gore hit the red carpet at Sunday’s “Women, Music and Diplomacy” gala concert without boyfriend Bill Allen but partnered with Herbie Hancock in a drum solo that closed the show. The 25th annual Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition at the Kennedy Center focused on drummers this year, concluding with a tribute to former U.S. Show More Summary
Slog tipper Mike Gore sends us the latest on this buttery story: A suburban Denver man who was diagnosed with "popcorn lung," possibly from inhaling the artificial butter smell of the microwave popcorn he regularly ate, has won a $7.2...Show More Summary
NOOOOOOOOOOO! There is probably no other couple on the planet we would be more horrified to learn are splitting up. This is like Al and Tipper Gore all over again! Despite embodying all our hopes and dreams about “having it all” and “being an amazing couple duo as well as sensual lovers at the same [...]
Please join the Reliable Source weekly online discussion today. Hey, isn’t summer supposed to be slow? But there’s so much news: Tipper Gore is dating someone, too. Barney Frank got married, and so did Don Graham. Since last we met,Show More Summary
The Reliable Source is off for the July 4th holiday and will resume Monday. (To see Wednesday’s column begin here: The telenovela life of Mexico’s new president; to see Tuesday’s column begin here: Tipper Gore is dating someone, too:...Show More Summary
The Golden Girls aren't the only seniors that get around! The guy who invented the internet Al Gore, and his wife of forty-plus-years, Tipper, have been divorced for a over two years, but they still have plenty of love in their lives… with other people. A source close to the couple confesses the 64-year-old former [...]
The Reliable Source is off for the July 4th holiday and will resume Monday. (To see Wednesday’s column begin here: The telenovela life of Mexico’s new president; to see Tuesday’s column begin here: Tipper Gore is dating someone, too:...Show More Summary
We never worried for a second about Tipper Gore after her separation from Al, and it seems our confidence was well founded: She’s got someone in her life, too. He’s Bill Allen, 71, the former editor-in-chief of National Geographic. After...Show More Summary
This guy and Tipper Gore should hang out. Full story at the NME :
The chief medical officer of Russia has bizarrely said that The Beatles are to blame for the country’s drug problem.
Yevgeny Bryun, who is the Eastern Europe nation’sShow More Summary
As a raunchy Miami rapper in the 1980s and 90s, Luther Campbell’s lyrics were so shocking that he courted the wrath of then-Senator Al Gore’s wife, Tipper, and the Parents’ Music Resource Council. But a lot can happen in a couple decades: Campbell, now an assistant high school football coach, has built a solid local reputation [...]
Two years after his divorce from Tipper, Al Gore is re-entering the dating world. Gore's new girlfriend, Elizabeth Keadle, is a Democratic donor with a...