For playwright Kimberly Belflower, there’s countless individuals that helped turn her play John Proctor Is the Villain from a collaborative college workshop into the hit play currently running on Broadway. But the person she uniquely credits the core of the show might take people by surprise: New Zealand-born global superstar …

Fresh off “Tonight,” the first single from her upcoming mixtape, Fancy That, out May 9, PinkPantheress keeps her infectious bubblegum energy going on a new track, “Stateside.” With a playful nod to Estelle’s “American Boy,” the British singer teases, “maybe you can be my American hot, hot, hot boy,” but …

Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the celebrated documentary No Other Land, has published a new essay about being beaten and degraded by Israeli settlers, then blindfolded and detained at an army base, just weeks after winning an Academy Award. Ballal offered a detailed account of the harrowing experience, which he called …

Neil Young isn’t just one of the most covered songwriters of all time, he’s also one of the most tributed. There have been several albums of people doing his songs released over the decades, first and most famously the 1989 LP The Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young, populated by …

Three weeks after John Mulaney tried and failed to reunite Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, the rap group’s core members have come back together for “Aww Shit,” their first new song in nearly 15 years. The track features all the principal Bones — Krayzie Bone, Layzie Bone, Bizzy Bone, Wish Bone, and Flesh-N-Bone …

Being asked to sing the National Anthem is one of a performer’s greatest honors. Agreeing to it, however, is the biggest risk. That didn’t scare off Stephen Wilson Jr., who delivered an understated but hypnotic version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the 2025 NFL Draft on Thursday in Green Bay, …

Justin Bieber‘s recent encounters with the paparazzi in Los Angeles have become more intense and ambush-like in the weeks since concerns and rumors have swelled around his health and well-being. Still, the musician doesn’t believe he should be the one to compromise in order to get the photographers, who recently …

What if Rain Man was Batman? Sounds like the pitch for a comedy sketch that would have absolutely slayed in the summer of 1989. So it’s worth remembering that The Accountant, the 2016 action thriller that ran with that premise, was merely a preposterous crock and not some outdated outrage. …

L ike all good children of immigrants, Charlene Kaye greets me with a gift. The shirt is emblazoned with neon-pink lightning, the title of her comedy show, Tiger Daughter, in a Def Leppard font, and a collage of images — including a photo of her mother, Lily, well, naked as …

Planned Parenthood recognized Olivia Rodrigo‘s work in educating young women about reproductive rights on Thursday by presenting her with its Catalyst of Change Award at the Greater New York Spring Into Action Gala in New York City. Lily Allen presented her with the award. During her acceptance speech, the artist, …