Running a business on your own comes with an abundance of benefits — the ability to determine your own schedule, the freedom to make decisions based on your own ideas and the opportunity to work on whatever projects you find interesting. However, being a solopreneur or solo creator also means …
Read More »Elton John, Missy Elliott, New Edition to Perform at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be streamed live on Disney+ from Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on November 3, and an edited version will broadcast on January 1, 2024, on ABC. This follows several years where HBO was the home of the ceremony. The Hall of Fame …
Read More »Paul Wilson Left Snow Patrol to Make Heavier Music. Now He's Rising Above a Messy Split
Paul “Pablo” Wilson left Snow Patrol after nearly two decades in the band last year — but he waited to announce it. Now, as he wants to move on with a metal-leaning project he’s calling Above as Below, he’s making sense of how the world has perceived the way he …
Read More »Comparing Biden and Trump's Polar-Opposite Messages to Autoworkers
The United Auto Workers went on strike against the Big Three car manufacturers earlier this month. The historic labor stoppage could have broad ramifications for the economy, the labor movement, and beyond — but it’s already having an impact on the 2024 presidential election. Donald Trump, who has long been …
Read More »Dua Lipa and Henry Cavill Are Spies Controlled by a Prophesying Author in Chaotic 'Argylle' Trailer
The ultimate serial vacationer, Dua Lipa, isn’t actually all that relaxed in the official trailer for Argylle, the Apple TV+ film scheduled to arrive in theaters on Feb. 2. She stars alongside Henry Cavill as a slick-talking spy ready to face off with her rival in a shimmering gold dress. …
Read More »Tina Turner Singles Collection 'Queen of Rock 'n' Roll' Arriving in November
Rhino will release Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, a collection of all Tina Turner’s singles from 1975-2023, on Nov. 24. The boxset celebrates 50 years since the start of the singer’s career and will mark the first time her singles have been released all together. The release is previewed with …
Read More »Wes Anderson's 'The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar' Is Barely a Movie — and One of His Best
The golden rule is usually, “Show, don’t tell.” And Wes Anderson is a filmmaker who — judging by the overly meticulous mise-en-scène, the highly mannered methods of his storytelling, the obsessive curating and compulsive footnoting of onscreen bric-a-brac — seems to love the structure that comes with obeying unwritten rules. …
Read More »How Bob Menendez's Gold Bars Led This New Jersey Democrat to Run for Senate
New Jersey Congressman Andy Kim was taking his kids to their annual checkup on Friday when his phone went haywire. “I was in the doctor’s office with them, they were running around and being absolutely crazy, but I could feel in my pocket my phone blowing up, just people calling …
Read More »One Great Rock Movie Can Change the World: An Oral History of 'School of Rock'
It was 20 years ago this month that Jack Black put on a bow tie, walked into a prep school, and told a bunch of fourth graders to get the Led out. His star turn as the lovable loser in Richard Linklater’s School of Rock helped the film gross nearly …
Read More »Michael Gambon, Dumbledore in 'Harry Potter' Films, Dead at 82
Michael Gambon, the BAFTA-winning British actor best known for portraying Professor Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film series, has died at the age of 82. Gambon died following a bout with pneumonia, his publicist told the BBC. His family added in a statement, “We are devastated to announce the …
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