When we last saw Hutch Mansell — family man, former government assassin, and the formidable antihero of the 2021 action movie Nobody — he’d burned down his house, taken out most of the Russian Mafia, and resettled in another suburb. The world’s deadliest middle-aged dad also took a mysterious phone …
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Near the end of what’s purported to be Wu-Tang Clan’s final Madison Square Garden set, Raekwon gave the crowd an affirmation about the legendary group: “One of one!” The most derivative rappers in the world will tell you they are too; the Clan actually embody the term. At times, mainstream …
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Wu-Tang Clan mastermind RZA celebrated his 56th birthday this weekend far from the chambers of Shaolin, at a Phish concert in Colorado. On Saturday, July 5, the jam giants played Boulder’s Folsom Field, and in the middle of their cover of the Talking Heads’ “Crosseyed and Painless,” drummer Jon Fishman …
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Who needs verses? Let the bassoons speak for themselves. The title track of RZA’s upcoming orchestral album, A Ballet Through Mud, benefits from light and shade, give and take between the strings and woodwinds. It’s not classical music per se since it owes more of a debt to John Williams, …
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RZA will journey from Staten Island to symphony halls withthe Wu-Tang Clan mastermind’s upcoming orchestral album, A Ballet Through Mud. The producer rediscovered the project during the pandemic when he revisited lyrical songbooks he penned as a teenager in “Shaolin.” RZA then transformed those early works into a ballet that …
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You don’t have to work in media or the fashion industry to know a Miranda Priestly type. You don’t need to be a fairy princess to have encountered a Maleficent or two in your day. And you don’t need to be familiar with the NYC art world — or for …
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