Aubrey Plaza called on a friend to perform a welfare check on her late husband Jeff Baena in October 2024, according to new reports from the Los Angeles Country Medical Examiner. At the time, around three months before the writer and director died by suicide at 47, Baena reportedly made …

It’s been a long road for Disney’s live-action iteration of Snow White starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot. From Covid delays to criticism regarding the fairy tale’s depiction of little people, racist fans taking issue with Zegler’s Latina heritage, and a premiere event that excluded journalists, the production was mired …

Metallica’s Kirk Hammett will share some of the stories behind the instruments he’s used throughout his career in a new coffee table book, The Collection: Kirk Hammett. The 400-page book (available to order now via Gibson Publishing) delves into Hammett’s life and music via his massive collection of guitars. The …

B obby Weir has been on the road virtually without a break since 1965, but the past few weeks have been crazy even by his standards. In December, he and his band the Grateful Dead were honored at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Now, in late January in Los …

Late in the new Netflix limited series The Residence, a character complains, “People like a murder mystery! They think they’re fun!” After a beat, though, he can’t help but admit, “And it is fun.” “Fun” is absolutely the watchword of this comic thriller, created by Paul William Davies and produced …

There are, by the organization’s current count, some 160,000 members of the Screen Actors Guild, many of whom are booking gigs on the regular. To be fair, very few of these performers are genuine 1970s cinema icons, not to mention the brand-name embodiment of a whole genre. Robert De Niro …

I once took refuge from my political day job by attending laugh-filled game nights at the home of a person now firing tens of thousands of federal workers. For Steve Davis, Elon Musk’s right-hand man at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), life has always been a game. A …

AfroFuture, the African music festival native to Ghana since 2017 (then as Afrochella) is coming to the U.S. for the first time. Rolling Stone can exclusively announce that Davido, Kaytranada, Tee Grizzley and more are among the first wave of AfroFuture headliners that will represent a global swath of Black …

Kelsea Ballerini celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Grand Ole Opry with a moving cover of Barbara Mandrell‘s 1981 tune “I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool.” Ballerini took the Nashville venue’s stage as Mandrell herself sat on a stool nearby, swaying along to the song. The lyrics made special …

Luke Combs took the stage at Opry 100: A Live Celebration last night, performing two songs during the Nashville event. The musician offered a moving rendition of his debut single “Hurricane,” explaining he previously played the track during his Grand Ole Opry debut almost nine years ago. Combs noted, “I’m …