In December 2016, when Kane Brown released his self-titled first album, it debuted at Number One on the Billboard country chart. But to hear him tell it, its true watershed moment came almost a full year later. In October 2017, after the album was re-released as a deluxe edition, Brown …
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“I’m just trying to find a balance, man,” says Mahershala Ali, actor, husband, father and star of the new movie Green Book, as he strolls through the parking lot of the Griffith Observatory, high in the hills above L.A. “Trying to be responsible with my choices, do meaningful work. Handling …
Read More »Dan Crenshaw on Pete Davidson's 'SNL' Apology: 'We Had a Lot of Fun'
Less than two days after roasting and forgiving Pete Davidson on Saturday Night Live for his controversial Weekend Update jokes, Lt. Com. Dan Crenshaw detailed the mindset of unity that prompted his appearance. The Texan congressman-elect admitted on Monday’s Today Show that he was initially “hesitant” about the SNL spot …
Read More »Marianne Faithfull on Finding 'More Meaning' in Her Classic Songs
Marianne Faithfull feels out of sorts. “I have a cold, the weather’s been terribly hard here in Paris and, what else … well, the usual,” she says on a call from her home in the City of Lights. “I’ve got to have a shoulder replacement, so I’m in a lot …
Read More »Watch Chance The Rapper, Steph Curry Help Explain Voting in Midterms
Ahead of the midterm elections this Tuesday, Chance The Rapper and NBA star Steph Curry joined Akilah Hughes on an episode of HBO’s Pod Save America to explain the voting process. On Friday night, they made cameos on the show’s “Democracy or Else” segment, where they confessed they hadn’t submitted …
Read More »Watch Jimmy Kimmel Ruin Kids' Halloween With Annual Candy-Stealing Prank
Jimmy Kimmel once again ruins Halloween for thousands of trick-or-treaters in the eighth annual installment of the late-night host’s “I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy.” “Once again, you really answered the call,” Kimmel told his viewers. “We got over a thousand videos, we went through all …
Read More »Powerful Performance Exposes the Constitution's Effects Upon Our Bodies
Heidi Schreck wants to talk to you about inherited trauma.She wants to tell you about the trauma that’s been passed down from woman to woman in her family: from her great-grandmother, a mail-order bride who died of “melancholia” at age 36; to her mother, who had to testify against her …
Read More »Watch Jamie Lee Curtis Talk 'Halloween,' Trauma in Conversation at 92Y
Ahead of the release of Halloween, the “direct sequel” to John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic, star Jamie Lee Curtis and director David Gordon Green sat down with Rolling Stone‘s David Fear to discuss the upcoming film. Over the course of the conversation, conducted at New York’s 92Y Thursday, Curtis and …
Read More »Kanye West Incoherently Pairs a MAGA Hat with a Kaepernick Sweatshirt
On Thursday morning, Kanye West made an appearance atFader magazine’s offices. For a rapper with an album coming out in a few days, that’s not that surprising. His outfit — pairing a Make America Great Again hat with a Colin Kaepernick sweater — is, actually, not all that surprising either, …
Read More »Jeff Tweedy Reveals Reasons Behind Solo Album and Wilco's 'Extended Break'
Jeff Tweedy just announced he will be putting out a solo album, WARM,onNovember 30th, and released a new video for his jangly new song “Some Birds.” The video raises questions about Tweedy’s hair, and whether he’s wearing a wig or if he really did cut his hair. But the album …
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