When audiences pile into Broadway’s Hudson Theater to watch All In: A Comedy About Love, chances are they’re not looking at the husband-and-wife duo tuning their instruments on either side of the stage. The show of vignettes, created by author Simon Rich, is only onstage for a 10-week limited engagement, …
Read More »They Fought to Get Kids Trapped in Gaza to America. Under Trump, 'Hope' Is Gone
It is less than a week until Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C., and Rolla Alaydi can barely stop crying. For more than a year, Alaydi, a Palestinian American teacher living in California, has been working nonstop with an attorney in a heartrending, uphill battle to evacuate nearly …
Read More »Bootleg Remixer Turned Main Stage Party Animal Knock2 Talks Solo Album 'Nolimit'
Last week, as Knock2 prepared to release his debut album, Nolimit, smoke plumed outside his Southern California crib. The Eaton fire, which has since leveled thousands of structures, was picking up momentum in the mountains near his apartment. The 25-year-old electronic music artist, born Richard Nakhonethap, says he grabbed his …
Read More »How Los Angeles Sent Nearly 10 Million People a False Fire Alert
On the afternoon of Jan. 9, nearly 10 million people across Los Angeles County received a warning that they were in danger. “NEW: This is an emergency message from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. An EVACUATION WARNING has been issued in your area,” the alert began, going on to …
Read More »Netflix's Ted Sarandos Reveals Unrealized David Lynch Project in Tribute to 'Unapologetic Genius'
Netflix’s Ted Sarandos paid tribute to David Lynch on social media and revealed that the visionary filmmaker had a potential project with the streaming service at the time of his death. Sarandos first met Lynch back when Netflix was “mailing DVDs” to households. “We tried to stock every movie on …
Read More »Meet the Millennial Bob Dylan Superfan Bringing Dylanology Into the 21st Century
When Ray Padgett attended his first Bob Dylan concert at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom in 2004, he walked out feeling more than a little confused. He was just 18 then and expected a traditional oldies revue much like the Simon and Garfunkel reunion tour stop he’d seen the prior year. “I …
Read More »I Argued With David Lynch About Meditation. He Was Right
On a summer morning in 2012, I was very pregnant in the back seat of a limo with David Lynch, being chauffered along Mulholland Drive. Lynch was 66 years old at the time. He was handsome and sharply dressed in his uniform: blazer, white shirt, American Spirits in his breast …
Read More »Did Trump Just Launch 'Trump Meme' Crypto Coin Days Before Inauguration?
With just days to go until Donald Trump returns to the White House, the president-elect’s social media accounts pitched Friday what may be the latest Trump-branded merchandise: Trump Memes, or crypto assets being advertised as “$TRUMP.” If that sounds sketchy to you, you’re not alone: Many social media users wondered …
Read More »TikTok Says App Will 'Go Dark' on Sunday Unless Biden Steps In
Unless the Biden administration is able to step in to block the enforcement of a federal ban, TikTok said that the app will “go dark” in the United States on Sunday. “The statements issued today by both the Biden White House and the Department of Justice have failed to provide …
Read More »Roy Wood Jr. on his Hulu Special and the State of Political Comedy
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Roy Wood Jr’s latest special starts off with less of a joke and more of a rumination, “We ain’t gonna make it… Overall as a society, we’ve lost …
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