Olivier Award-winning playwright and activist Katori Hall — who also wrote the book for the Broadway musical Tina — discusses her new Starz show P-Valley on the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s “The Breakdown.” The Memphis native could not wait to depict Southern strip-club culture: “I think a lot of …
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Folklorists will tell you that la llorona is a ghostly figure said to be a crying mother doomed to grieve for her drowned, dead offspring in perpetuity, and it takes a while to figure out how the Latin American legend fits into Jayro Bustamante’s extraordinary, eerie-as-hell horror movie. (It streams …
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Before it hits a bump in the plot that throws it out of whack, An American Pickle rides high on a double dose of Seth Rogen, with the brash comedian plays dual roles separated by a century. The first is Herschel Greenbaum, a ditch-digger from the fictional Eastern European shtetl …
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Dozens of high-profile musicians in pop, rock and hip-hop have partnered with the Artist Rights Alliance in an open letter demanding that politicians get clearance on the music they play at campaign rallies and other public events. The letter calls for major political party committees in the U.S. to “establish …
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Guided By Voices thumbed their noses at the ongoing pandemic last Friday when they performed a lengthy, high-energy live-streamed show in an empty venue in Dayton, Ohio. According to frontman Robert Pollard, it was the most-watched event on the NoonChorus platform to date. Still, not content to rest on their …
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Beastie Boys, Queen, and Bob Marley will each be the focus of their own limited-run channels on SiriusXM, which will also bring back a Prince channel dedicated to the “Purple Rain” singer. Michael Jackson and Coldplay will receive weeklong tribute channels starting Wednesday, July 15th, the satellite-radio service announced Wednesday. …
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When Donald Trump announced that he was running for president in June of 2015, he made it extremely clear what he thought about immigration and, in particular, Mexican immigrants. But if you tuned into Fox News on Friday, you would have witnessed a gaslighting for the ages. Related: 2015: The …
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The Dalai Lama will mark his 85th birthday Monday, July 6th, with not only the release of his debut album, Inner World, but a special livestream event starting at 1 p.m. ET. Per a press release, the livestream program will feature an appearance from Richard Gere, a long-time student and …
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Comedy Central announced on Wednesday that a reimagined version ofBeavis and Butt-Head, MTV’s beloved Nineties adult cartoon comedy, will be coming to the network. The new version of the show, which originally aired from 1993 to 1997, will present the two teenage couch potatoes as Gen X parents raising their …
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Barack Obama, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Kesha and more took part in Pride Live’s Stonewall Day livestream Friday, with former vice president/current Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden and his wife Jill also making a surprise appearance. “Whether we’re fighting to protect a patient from discrimination in the healthcare system or …
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