Dropkick Murphys singer Ken Casey was walking the booths and stalls of the Great Allentown Fair before his band’s show that night on the Grandstand Stage when he started to feel increasingly uneasy. The leader of the Boston band known for their Irish-influenced punk rock and vocal support of workers’ …
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“WE STARTED JAMMING in 2014,” Elizabeth Stokes says on a Zoom one afternoon in August, trying to trace the formation of her band. “Jamming,” she repeats, chuckling as she puts up air-quotes. “I don’t feel cool enough to use that word.” This is the kind of self-deprecation Stokes is notorious …
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A few unhinged members of a New Jersey comedy club audience must have gotten lost on their way to a Trump rally. Ariel Elias was in the middle of her stand-up set when a person in the crowd demanded to know if she voted for Trump and another threw a …
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The West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., serves people from all over the mid-South (and, sometimes, beyond). One Alabama patient, Tamika (not her real name), came through the clinic in 2021 with a story that illustrates the wide spectrum of challenges facing Black women who live in states that …
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Charlie Puth‘s strong new album, Charlie, is the product of two break-ups —one with a longtime business associate, the other with a girlfriend. “It was a loss at one time of two relationships that I thought I needed to succeed,” he says in a revealing interview on the new episode …
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A review of this week’s Atlanta, “Work Ethic!” coming up just as soon as I develop a tolerance to grits… The last time Atlanta put Donald Glover into heavy prosthetic makeup, it was to play the unnerving title character of the incredible “Teddy Perkins” episode. That one was a commentary …
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In a speech on Thursday night, President Joe Biden warned that recent threats from Russian president Vladimir Putin could devolve into a nuclear conflict. “We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis,”Biden confirmed, speaking at a Democratic fundraiser event in New York. “We’ve …
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When Joyce Wrice reflects on the year-plus since her debut album, Overgrown, established her as a major new voice in R&B, she’s almost lost for words. “Oh my goodness,” says the Southern California singer. “Dropping that changed my life.” It’s New York Fashion Week, and Wrice — who will walk …
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Over two years after actor Anthony Rapp first filed a civil lawsuit against Kevin Spacey over an alleged sexual assault that occurred in 1986, opening statements in the trial took place Thursday in a Manhattan courtroom. “What happened to Anthony is something that never should have happened,” Rapp’s lawyer Peter …
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Fiona Apple’s first new music since her Grammy-winning 2020 album Fetch the Bolt Cutters is “Where the Shadows Lie,” a song she recorded for The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power. The Amazon Music-only track will appear in the season finale of Prime Video’s epic series inspired by the …
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