So, How Was Your 2020? is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. Before she found herself making bagels at home, Sharon Van Etten was scheduled to embark …
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A review of this week’s The Mandalorian, “The Tragedy,” coming up just as soon as we travel with the windows down… There’s a famous line from the end of the classic John Ford film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, where a newspaper editor responds to hearing the honest account …
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Bad Bunny has always looked ahead. When his sophomore effort YHLQMDLG dropped last February, the Puerto Rican rapper already had his mind on his next project. On YHLQMDLG‘s final track, “<3,” he announced that he’d be back in nine months with a follow-up release that would likely be his last. …
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It feels like it was just yesterday that Home Alone introduced filmgoers to the joys of transfusing Three Stooges-like slapstick into a John Hughes-penned comedy and watching a prepubescent kid look shocked. But it’s been 30 years since the modern holiday classic crashed into theaters on November 16th, 1990, and …
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Hours after President-elect Joe Biden was finally recognized as the winner of the 2020 presidential election, his Saturday Night Live counterpart Jim Carrey took the stage to deliver a victory speech. “We did it! Can you believe it? I honestly can’t. It’s been so long since something good happened,” Carrey’s …
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“It’s very…important…that you do as I say,” a lithe woman with wavy ombre hair purrs into the camera, clad in only an Easter-egg-blue bra with lacy trim. She purses her lips. “It’s for your own benefit. It’s for the greater good. For your future.” She starts caressing her breasts. “You …
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Singer-songwriter S.G. Goodman‘s 2020 debut, Old Time Feeling, made her one of Rolling Stone’s Artists You Need to Know. In this exclusive op-ed, the musician, who grew up in Hickman, Kentucky, writes about the upcoming election in her home state pitting Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell against Democratic nominee Amy …
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When my children were younger, they loved a series of books by Laura Numeroff and illustrator Felicia Bond with titles like If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Each book follows an animal along a series of random adventures where one thing leads to another (the cookie makes the mouse …
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For those who might be wondering, there’s no sure-fire way to end up on Good Steely Dan Takes. Alex, the 35-year-old Brooklyn resident in charge of the improbably entertaining and increasingly popular Twitter account, which aggregates and celebrates niche riffs, memes, and one-liners related to the arch jazz-pop kingpins, says …
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Billie Eilish and Finneas appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Monday night for a moody, black and white performance of their James Bond theme, “No Time to Die.” The brother/sister duo performed the song in some sort of grand hall — the simple rendition (just piano and voice) …
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