James Figueras (Claes Bang) is an art critic so charmingly slick he can sell a tourist audience in Milan on a painting simply by making up stories about it. In attendance at his lecture is Berenice Hollis (Elizabeth Debicki), a vacationing teacher from Minnesota — or is she a seductive …
Read More »Lady Gaga's New Album: Here's Everything We Know About 'Chromatica'
UPDATE (3/16):Lady Gaga offered some more hints aboutChromaticain aPaper cover story. BloodPop is LP’s executive producer, but she notes that many other collaborators were involved in the very “fluid” musical process, including BURNS, Axwell, Rami Yacoub, Benjamin Rice, Tchami and more. She also hinted at a collaboration with another female …
Read More »How to Watch the Kobe and Gianna Bryant Memorial Service
The public memorial service for Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna, will take place today, February 24th, at 10 a.m. PT/ 1 p.m. ET, and will be broadcast live in a variety of places. The event, dubbed “A Celebration of Life,” will be streaming via Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other …
Read More »What Really Happened at Ohio University When Kaitlin Bennett Showed Up?
On Monday afternoon, Ohio University first-year Anya Bartek was in class when she found out that Kaitlin Bennett — a right-wing personality known as Kent State Gun Girl for posing with an AR-10 rifle at graduation — was set to appear at her school to ask students questions about Presidents’ …
Read More »'That's When They Were on Fire': Inside the Who's 'Live at Leeds'
It was 50 years ago today that the Who walked into the University of Leeds Refectory in Leeds, England, and played what many rock fans consider to be the greatest concert of all time. At the very least, the album they recorded that night — Live at Leeds — is …
Read More »Roger Waters: 'The U.S. Is Not a Fool's Paradise, It's a Fool's Hell'
Roger Waters would like to see a new resistance movement sweep America. At a Q&A after a screening of his concert film, Us + Them, in New York on Tuesday night, the artist compared the way he saw younger people take to the themes of humanism in his concert abroad …
Read More »One Man Believes Tupac Is Alive in New Mexico — And Plans to Make a Movie About It
Perhaps one of the greatest conspiracy theories in music history is that Tupac Shakur is still alive. There’s a stubborn contingent of people who refuse to believe that Shakur died from the four gunshot wounds he sustained on September 7th, 1996, in Las Vegas. Tupac’s bodyguard has shared that he …
Read More »'Everybody Was Bawling': Kristen Bell on the End of 'The Good Place'
Last Thursday, the NBC comedy The Good Place aired its poignant finale, which concluded (spoilers) with Kristen Bell’s Eleanor Shellstrop deciding her time in the afterlife was up. She walked through the final door, dissolved into floating orbs of light, and wound up down on Earth, where her glittering particles …
Read More »The Last Word: Patrick Stewart on Picard's Evolution, Going Bald, Helping Veterans
Sir Patrick Stewart’s return to the Star Trek universe and the role of the captain that made him famous in Picard has been greeted with widespread critical acclaim and unbridled nerd enthusiasm. Rolling Stone’s Alan Sepinwall hailed the show and rightly called Stewart“far and away the best actor to be …
Read More »Tyler, the Creator on His Grammy Win: It 'Feels Like a Backhanded Compliment'
On Sunday night, Tyler, the Creator won his first Grammy when 2019’s IGOR took home the year’s award for Best Rap Album. He had mixed feelings about it. “I’m half and half on it,” he said, immediately after accepting the award. “On one side, I’m very grateful that what I …
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