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The run-up to Christmas and our Bristol production of The Happiest Days of Your Life seemed to drag on forever. I enjoyed doing the play, lightweight as it was. But my life was changing — Sheila, the RSC — and I wanted to get on with it. Fortunately, we had …

NEWJEANS IS, IN FACT, one of the buzziest music groups today. When their self-titled EP dropped in the summer of 2022, it sold 400,000+ pre-orders within four days, surpassing any debut EP from a Korean girl group. Over a year since the drop, they have amassed ambassadorships with Gucci, Chanel, …

Nobody — outside of maybe Henry Selick — can adapt a Roald Dahl story quite like Wes Anderson, whose 2009 stop-motion animated Fantastic Mr. Fox remains a high watermark. Well, the Texas auteur is back at this year’s Venice Film Festival with another take on Dahl, this time taking on …

In 1969, the mysterious Tom Forçade insinuated himself into the top echelons of countercultural politics by taking control of the Underground Press Syndicate, a coalition of anti-establishment newspapers across the country. Wiry and manic, Forcade wore a black hat and refused to have his face photographed. Weathering government surveillance and …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Even after decades of creating and sharing recipes, Martha Stewart still consults the classic cookbooks. Her favorite? One of the best-selling cookbooks of all time, Joy of Cooking. …

Recognition of hip-hop‘s 50th anniversary has been in full force throughout 2023, but writer Kiana Fitzgerald’s celebration started almost a year early, in February 2022. That’swhen she began crafting Ode to Hip-Hop, out now on Running Press. Her debut book chronicles “50 albums that define 50 years of trailblazing music,” …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Whether you’re singling out which books to bring on an upcoming vacation, luxuriating in low-key Sunday afternoons, or hiding out in bookstores until the temperature mercifully drops somewhere …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. We’ve heard Paul McCartney’s account of the Beatles’ rise to superstardom in his 2021 book, but now we get to see it: In the musician’s new book, 1964: …

A few years ago, around the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, there was a perplexing shift in the wellness space. Yoga teachers, holistic healers, crystal sellers — people who had never posted anything remotely political, seemed, all of a sudden, to start posting about the dangers of 5G radiation, surgical …

Pride month is not just a celebration of queer joy,but also an annual reminder of the ongoing fight for LGBTQ rights. It’s important, though, to break up the parades and protests with a little personal time, a moment to recharge and recenter so the battle can go on, long after …