The Laurel Canyon songwriting circles of the Sixties and Seventies may be a thing of the past, but Los Angeles remains as connected as ever to its musical roots, with homegrown artists like Billie Eilish, Haim, and Kendrick Lamar carrying the torch for smart, poignant, and progressive music that crosses …
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Sacheen Littlefeather, the Native American civil rights activist who declined Marlon Brando’s 1973 Best Actor Oscar on his behalf, discussed that famous night and the Academy of the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ recent apology for the way she was treated at an event in her honor over the weekend. …
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Former President Donald Trump railed against the FBI agents who seized hundreds of classified documents from his Palm Beach residence in a late-night rant following his return to Mar-a-Lago. “Arrived in Florida last night and had a long and detailed chance to check out the scene of yet another government …
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Gina Prince-Bythewood doesn’t find herself intimidated very often. Why would she be? The director kicked off her career with a bona fide sports-movie classic, Love & Basketball, which was the talk of the 2000 Sundance Film Festival; she’d made critically acclaimed dramas like Beyond the Lights and superhero blockbusters like …
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Variety is, as they say, the spice of life, and it’s important to ensure there are always some options available, especially when the only other thing going on is a funeral. That’s why Britain’s Channel 5 is doing its TV-watching constituents a true national service by broadcasting The Emoji Movie …
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Long live Montero! Over the weekend, as fans waited to enter the MGM Music Hall ahead of Lil Nas X‘s tour stop, a group of religious protesters gathered across the street, asking his stans to “repent and believe” with massive signs. In true Lil Nas X fashion, he took that …
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As the countdown to the release of her tenth studio album Midnights continues, Taylor Swift is scattering details about the time-oriented record throughout its rollout – including using the back covers of each vinyl edition to create a four-piece puzzle that comes together to form a clock. “Alright, I’ve been …
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Rolling Stone‘s interview series King for a Day features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and singers who had the difficult job of fronting major rock bands after the departure of an iconic vocalist. Some of them stayed in their bands for years, while others lasted just a few …
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“To have the strength to break away from that wasn’t easy,” says Mariah Carey, reflecting on the end of her marriage to Tommy Mottola, as chronicled on her 1997 masterpiece Butterfly. “So I put it all into the music.” Carey gave one of her most honest, open, and funny interviews …
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Chrissy Teigen has revealed that the miscarriage she suffered in 2020 when she was 20 weeks pregnant with Jack, her and John Legend’s third child, was actually a life-saving abortion. “I had to make a lot of difficult and heartbreaking decisions,” she explained during a recent appearance at social impact …
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