Samantha Bee explored the crucial role undocumented immigrants play in the food industry – and debuted her Guy Fieri parody character, “Girl Fieri” – on Full Frontal Wednesday. As Bee noted, there are 1.3 million undocumented immigrants working in restaurants in the United States, and one of them, Christina Martinez, …
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Phil Lesh & Very Special Friends will headline a voter participation benefit concert at New York’s Apollo Theater on September 7th on a bill that also includes the Harlem Gospel Choir, Terrapin Family Band, Nicki Bluhm, Talib Kweli and Robert Randolph. Formally billed as Don’t Tell Me This Country Ain’t …
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Dead & Company will reconvene this winter for their second annual Playing in the Sand concert vacation, which invades Riviera Maya, Mexico in January. The supergroup – featuring John Mayer, Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti – will perform three concerts …
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Hollywood has been keeping the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office awfully busy this summer. According to the New York Daily News, local law enforcement has handed the DA’s sexual assault task force three new cases for review. Earlier this week, the Los Angeles Police Department forwarded the DA their …
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Kacey Musgraves isn’t one to play things safe, but she plays the role to the hilt on a charming, bubbly new cover of “Kansas City Star” that will appear on the star-studded King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller album coming later in August. Miller scored a Top …
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Travis Scott and Post Malone are the latest performers slated to take the stage at Radio City Music Hall for the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards. This year’s show will take place on Monday, August 20th. Scott will perform a medley of songs from his latest album Astroworld, which was …
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Though the proposed Mexican border wall and the “zero tolerance” policy that yielded family separations get all the headlines, the Trump administration is working to curb legal immigration, as well. The president has pressured Congress to enact a number of measures that would make it harder for people to emigrate …
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Saturday afternoon at the Hinterland Music Festival in Saint Charles, Iowa, Sturgill Simpson and Wheeler Walker Jr. popped up during Tyler Childers’ midday set to give a cheeky performance of Walker’s song “Sit on My Face.” Though not a song that requires much imagination for the uninitiated to Walker’s catalog, …
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Charlie Puth had an odd feeling as he read negative reviews of his 2016 debut album, Nine Track Mind: He agreed with them. Despite scoring three radio hits, Puth – a classic-rock fanatic from New Jersey who graduated from the Berklee College of Music – was insecure it had taken …
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Samantha Bee enlisted Terry Crews for a special PSA on male sexual abuse and hack comedy on Full Frontal Wednesday. The segment opened with Bee discussing the rise of male sexual abuse, noting that about one in 33 men in the United States has been a victim of attempted or …
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