Organizers of an Olympia, Washington festival believed they booked Jonathan Richman for an August 28th concert, a gig that would have marked his first pandemic-era performance. However, a day before the show, they learned they instead had been scammed by a person pretending to be the Modern Lovers singer, who …
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Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey is using federal virus relief funds as a carrot to convince schools not to protect children from getting infected with Covid-19. This week, Ducey set up a $163 million school grant program that will only go to schools that have not instituted a mask mandate, …
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You’re trapped in a carnival of horrors. Every move you make is crucial. If you open the right door, you’ll survive, but others will send you falling down a slide of doom for eternity, getting your head bitten off, turned into a chicken, or sent into space. Wait, no, these …
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Patricia Kennealy-Morrison — the one-time rock journalist and partner of Doors singer Jim Morrison — died July 23rd at the age of 75. “To all of you who have supported our beloved Lizard Queen, I wanted to let you know that she passed this morning,” Kennealy-Morrison’s Lizard Queen Press — …
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Miranda Lambert makes her first foray into dance music with “Tequila Does (Telemitry Remix),” a tropical house update of the song she recorded for 2019’s Wildcard as well as her collaborative Marfa Tapes project. In the accompanying video, Lambert hosts a pool party for her family and friends. Filmed at …
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The Republican Party’s childishpursuit of “evidence” to support the Big Lie that the 2020 election was somehow stolen from Donald Trump has run into adult supervision in Arizona, where a county chair has rejected a state-senate subpoena and told GOP lawmakers to “tell the truth and stop encouraging conspiracy theories.” …
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The members of the Colombian duo Bomba Estéreo have been slowly unveiling glimpses of Deja, their upcoming album that will be divided into four ambitious parts inspired by the earth’s four elements. After releasing three-song EPs for Agua (water) and Aire (air), the band is coming back to earth with …
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After a perpetual delay due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Warner Bros. has finally released a full-length trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune adaptation, along with a new release date: October 22nd, both in theaters and on streaming with HBO Max’s ad-free package for 31 days. The trailer offers an epic three-minute …
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The English duo Children of Zeus spin a cocoon of neo-soul on “No Love Song,” a single from their new album, Balance. This track is a magnificent bummer, a laundry lists of flaws, failings, and shortcomings. The first line is a warning: “The emotions of a stone expectin’ me to …
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The Biden administration has narrowed the White House‘s gender pay gap and hired a majority of women as White House staff. In a fact sheet released Thursday, part of the White House’s annual report to Congress on staff, the White House announced that 60 percent of new White House employees …
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