Zac Brown Band paid tribute to Jimmy Buffett Saturday hours after their “Knee Deep” collaborator’s death with a performance of “Margaritaville” at the group’s concert in Gilford, New Hampshire. Brown and company had played the 1977 classic a handful of times live of the years — including a CMT Crossroads …
Read More »A White Trump Official Is Launching a Group Called Black America for Immigration Reform
You might think that the person launching a group called Black America for Immigration Reform is a person of color. But you’d be wrong. It’s William W. Chip, a white man who served in Donald Trump‘s Department of Homeland Security. According to Politico, Chip is the only agent named on …
Read More »Videos Show Angry Neo-Nazis Cursing and Screaming Slurs During March in Florida
Members of white supremacist and antisemitic hate groups marched outside Orlando, Florida, on Saturday screaming invectives, raising the Nazi salute, and yelling “Heil Hitler” and “white power.” “We are everywhere!” neo-Nazis can be heard shouting in a video shared by former Florida House of Representatives member Anna V. Eskamani. Later …
Read More »For Teachers, A New Year — And New Book Bans — Means More Work
When Holly Weaver began teaching in 2014, she started because she loved literature,and wanted to share that with students. But she quickly realized that her class, filled with kids from diverse communities and socioeconomic backgrounds, needed something completely different. “I saw very quickly some inequities within school systems,” Weaver says. …
Read More »Metallica Postpone Arizona Show as 'COVID Has Caught Up With' James Hetfield
Metallica were forced to postpone the second night of their M72 Weekend Takeover in Glendale, Arizona after James Hetfield came down with Covid. The band were set to return to the stadium Sunday night after playing Friday. “We’re very sorry to report that tomorrow’s scheduled M72 date at State Farm …
Read More »The Climate Crisis Could Mean the Twilight of the American West
I first visited the Grand Canyon in 1967 with two school friends and an elderly teacher who filled his summers by taking young students on long road trips, camping across the country. I mostly remember the color of the sky and the immensity of the chasm, with the Colorado River …
Read More »David Fincher on Why 'The Killer' Assassin Shoots People to The Smiths
“I don’t really think of the movie as an assassin movie, said David Fincher. “I think of it more as a revenge movie.” The acclaimed director behind Se7en and Zodiac was discussing his new film The Killer, which is making its premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Michael Fassbender stars …
Read More »James Taylor Remembers His Friend Jimmy Buffett: 'You Got to Channel Him'
Although they both established themselves as leading summer-shed troubadours of the Seventies, Jimmy Buffett and James Taylor seemed to live in different parts of a harbor: Buffett the effusive showman, Taylor the introspective loner. In fact, the two had more in common than anyone would have expected. Both were sailors, …
Read More »Judge Throws Out Conviction of Former Fox Exec in FIFA Bribery Case
A federal judge vacated convictions of former Fox executive Hernán López and an Argentinian marketing company in a FIFA bribery case that accused them of bribing soccer officials to secure broadcasting rights for big tournaments, including the World Cup. U.S. District Judge Pamela K. Chen granted a motion for the …
Read More »Watch Florence Welch, Ethel Cain Perform 'Morning Elvis,' Thoroughfare' in Lisbon
Florence Welch and Ethel Cain joined forces at MEO Kalorama festival in Lisbon, Portugal yesterday to perform two songs. The appearance follows Welch’s announcement that she recently had life-saving surgery. As seen in fan footage, Welch and Cain delivered “Thoroughfare,” which appears on Cain’s debut album, 2022’s Preacher’s Daughter. The …
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