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After opening for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour during its second North American leg, Gracie Abrams has announced The Secret of Us Deluxe tour. The North American run, which Abrams announced Monday, begins July 24 in Boston, and includes stops in Toronto; New York; Los Angeles; and Morrison, Colorado; and concludes …

Joe Biden held his final Kennedy Center Honors last night, paying tribute to the Grateful Dead, Bonnie Raitt, and Francis Ford Coppola, among others. A reception took place at the White House on Sunday and saw Biden celebrating the Dead’s career. “In the San Francisco Bay at an inflection point …

Amy Allen just scored a Grammy nomination for Songwriter of the Year after co-writing every song on Sabrina Carpenter‘s Short n’ Sweet — and she owes her entire career to the vampire baby in one of the Twilight movies. As a nursing student at Boston College, she discovered a major …

The nominees for the 2025 Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning, with Emilia Pérez, Wicked, The Bear, and Shōgun all among the major titles competing for multiple awards Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard’s acclaimed musical about a transgender cartel boss, led all film nominees with 10, including Best Picture – …

The Last Showgirl stars Pamela Anderson as a Las Vegas showgirl struggling to come to terms with the reality of her show abruptly closing after three decades. In an original song for the Gia Coppola film, a tender ballad titled “Beautiful That Way,” Miley Cyrus offers consoling encouragement for the …

“I want to thank every single one of you for being a part of the most thrilling chapter of my entire life to date,” Taylor Swift said Sunday night in Vancouver. “My beloved Eras Tour.” Then she took her final bow and said goodnight — and meant it. Nobody really …

Since jump-starting the Eras Tour in March 2023, Taylor Swift has given $197 million in bonuses to her performers and crew members, Rolling Stone has confirmed. Crew members, who received the bonus on top of their salaries, include truck drivers, caterers, instrument technicians, the merchandise team, the lighting and sound …

This may a difficult thing for anyone who came of age in the Sixties or Seventies to process, but there are many young people today who have either never heard of Bob Dylan or know virtually nothing about him. It’s easy to scoff at that if you’re a fan, but …

The Eras Tour came to an end on Sunday night after 149 shows spanning nearly two years. During that time, Taylor Swift spent more than 520 collective hours on stage, performed nearly 50 songs, and released three albums — two re-recordings and one 31-track mega record. But those numbers don’t …

Early on in his new book, “Custodians of Wonder,” BBC Travel writer Eliot Stein tallies some recent effects of globalization, a process that seems to only speed up. Nine languages, he notes, are lost annually; half of the world’s current languages could go extinct within the next 100 years. Nearly …