The hopes of millions of TheBig Lebowski fans were dashed earlier this week when it was revealed that tantalizing images of Jeff Bridges back in his Dude duds were not for some sort of sequel, but rather a Super Bowl commercial for Stella Artois. The Dude doesn’t even appear until …
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Ahead of Wu-Tang: Of Mics and Men‘s premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, the Showtime-bound four-part docuseries unveiled its first trailer Friday. The two-minute preview opens on the rap group’s native Staten Island and their childhood on the New York borough they dubbed “Shaolin.” “[It was] almost like a police …
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Jimmy Kimmel Live mocked the ongoing political tension between President Trump and Democratic leaders with a hilarious, fake promo for a “shutdown showdown steel slat brawl” between the president, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Kimmel opened the monologue piece from Wednesday’s episode with …
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In addition to Billy Joel‘s monthly gig at Madison Square Garden, the singer will embark on a summer tour of concerts at the stadiums of seven Major League Baseball teams. The one-show-a-month stadium tour kicks off March 9th at Phoenix’s Chase Field (home of the Diamondbacks) and continues April 26th …
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WASHINGTON —Congressman Will Hurd of Texas is an increasingly lonely voice in the “build the wall” Republican Party of Donald Trump. A 41-year-old former undercover CIA officer, Hurd represents one of the largest congressional districts in America, Texas’ 23rd, a vast expanse of land roughly the size of Georgia that …
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Santana will celebrate two important anniversaries in the band’s history on its upcoming tour: the 20th anniversary of their blockbuster Supernatural album and the 50th anniversary of their legacy-making performance at Woodstock. The trek, dubbed Supernatural Now, will kick off this June with a gig in Phoenix and snake across …
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Original Woodstock organizer Michael Lang announced his plan earlier this week to stage another Woodstock in Watkins Glen, New York to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first one. It’ll be the first Woodstock since the disastrous Woodstock 99, but he swears things will be different this time. “Woodstock ’99 …
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In 2018, Best Buy decided to stop selling CDs, with the change partly brought on by record labels’ increasing reluctance to even issue them.Both choices are symptoms as well as causes of a seemingly inevitable trend:Buying music is now going out of style nearly as fast as streaming music is …
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“RealLife Rock Top Ten” is a monthly column by cultural critic and RS contributing editorGreil Marcus. 1. Rich Kreuger, “Kenny’s (It’s Always Christmas in This Bar,” from NOWThen (RockkinK Music). Years ago in Chicago, in the middle of winter, my friend Bill Wyman was taking me to a bar: “Chicago’s …
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By day, Jennifer Turner works in law enforcement in Vancouver. But on this particular late August weekend, she’s in Cleveland, attending JemCon, an annual gathering for devotees of the colorful Eighties cartoon Jem and the Holograms. Turner’s fandom runs deep. She grew up with a single father who supported her …
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