John Lydon (née Johnny Rotten) and his Public Image Ltd. have failed in their bid to represent Ireland at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. In January, the London-born Lydon announced plans to enter PiL’s latest single “Hawaii” — a song written for his wife Nora, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s …

Railway strikes, needy kids, a birthday party to plan, a job in Paris (a long commute away), interviews for another job (which demand sneaking away from work), and a babysitter who is increasingly over it: The deck of Julie Roy’s life is full, and because that life is happening fast, …

When Ohio-born rapper Trippie Redd first burst onto the scene in 2017, Donald J. Trump was about to start his first presidential term, Juice Wrld and XXXTentacion were alive, and SoundCloud rap was the new transgressive genre making waves. Back then, Redd contributed to the urgent-sounding genre with his first …

This week, Tom Brady, an NFL quarterback of some note, announced for the second time that he would be retiring from professional football. I’ll believe it when I see it, because about a year ago I wrote an aggravated goodbye-to-Brady piece, watched him return to the game, and then learned …

It’s difficult to capture in just a few hours the depth of the influence Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson have cast over the industry through their legendary Motown catalog, but the 2023 MusiCares Dinner looked to do just that, celebrating one of the most prolific creative collaborations — and one …

Nomi Abadi has been a piano prodigy since she was three years old and has toured around the world as a classical pianist, releasing numerous albums and EPs. But as she stood at a podium in a downtown Los Angeles hotel conference room Friday afternoon, she wasn’t there to talk …

Armie Hammer has broken his silence for the first time since alleged cannibalistic fantasies and sexual assault claims halted the actor’s career two years ago. Speaking to digital newsletter Air Mail, Hammer said, “I’m here to own my mistakes, take accountability for the fact that I was an asshole, that …

O N THE EVENING of Sept. 28, 1979, Caesars Palace in Las Vegas felt like the center of the universe. Sugar Ray Leonard was fighting Andy Price for the North American Boxing Federation welterweight title. In the crowd, sports legends like Joe DiMaggio and Joe Louis mingled with entertainers like …

Maureen Farrell has worked as a midwife in West Virginia for two years, and as a doula for six. But this fall, she noticed a dramatic change in her day-to-day: more clients than ever seeking miscarriage support — not because more of them were experiencing miscarriages, but because of the …

Paul Shaffer made his one-night-only return to late-night Friday as he sat in for the Roots on The Tonight Show. “It’s such a coincidence we’re here tonight because 41 years ago this very week was when David Letterman came on the air right across the hall here at NBC… so …