The big-screen treatment of a bestseller, a well-scrubbed Southern Gothic, a next-gen star’s showcase, a romance-murder-mystery-courtroom-drama-dessert-topping-floor-wax, The Movie That Would Be The Notebook — these are some of the ways to describe Where the Crawdads Sing, the adaptation of Delia Shannon’s book-club staple about love and death among the marshlands. …
Read More »Guggenheim Painter Accused of Ripping Off Black Artist Admits She Made a 'Mistake'
Spanish artist Gala Knörr was eager to announce the news. Her Young Cowboy paintings would be on display at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao from July 8 until September 13. “Guys, been playing it cool, but this is a big deal for me, specially [sic] with this project,” Knörr wrote in an …
Read More »Nothing Will Prepare You for Nathan Fielder's New Show 'The Rehearsal'
In “Finding Frances,” the instant-classic series finale of his Comedy Central show Nathan For You, Nathan Fielder attempts to help Bill, an old man who had appeared on an earlier episode, track down a long-lost love. At one point, Fielder hires an actress to role-play as Frances, to help Bill …
Read More »Watch Rage Against the Machine Play 'No Shelter' for First Time in 15 Years
Rage Against the Machine continued their reunion tour Tuesday evening at Chicago’s United Center, just one night after frontman Zack de la Rocha injured his leg at the same venue. He was seated throughout the entire night but still managed to put on a stellar show that included the group’s …
Read More »Exclusive: Trump's Lawyers Think Mark Meadows Is Going Down
As she opened the House Jan. 6 committee hearing Tuesday, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney ticked through a list of names of people Donald Trump’s legal team have attempted to pin the blame for the Capitol attack, naming the president’s lawyers, MAGA-friend lawmakers, and others. Mark Meadows, Trump’s former White House …
Read More »URL to IRL: Dirty Bird Is Building a Dance Music Community, One Beat at a Time
All humans are comprised of contradictions, and multimedia artist Dirty Bird is self-aware of his. He’s a Twitter-famous internet personality who doesn’t want to be known for his online persona. He’s a jazz-laden dance music producer who wouldn’t describe his own music as jazz. He’s a capital-A Artist who’s frighteningly …
Read More »Emmys Ready to Honor Another Dave Chappelle Special Filled With Transphobic Jokes
Dave Chappelle’s controversial stand-up special The Closer, in which the comedian continued his recent habit of trotting out jokes at the expense of trans people and the LGBTQ community, earned the praise of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences with an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded). The …
Read More »Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Curator Charged Over $1M Worth of Stolen Eagles Lyrics
Three men, including a curator for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, were charged on Tuesday over allegedly possessing a trove of stolen handwritten notes and lyrics by the Eagles’ co-founder Don Henley, with New York officials estimating the documents are worth more than $1 million. Curator Craig Inciardi, …
Read More »How Noah Cyrus Saved Herself
F ar West Farms, a bucolic, family-run riding center perched off a chalky street in Calabasas, California, takes some effort to find. If you’re in a car, you wind your way down Ventura Boulevard and around anonymous office buildings, past the flower-strewn pet cemetery where Humphrey Bogart buried his cocker …
Read More »What You Need to Know Before the End of 'Better Call Saul'
Saul Goodman’s first TV appearance was in the Breaking Bad second-season episode titled, appropriately, “Better Call Saul,” which debuted on AMC on April 26, 2009. It has, in other words, been a minute since we met the title character of the great prequel series Better Call Saul, and only slightly …
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