Patton Oswalt recounted his earliest experiences of Star Wars and Comic-Con — as well as the unconventional confidence boost Jason Alexander gave him during a guest appearance on Seinfeld — in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s “The First Time.” Oswalt said he was eight years old when his parents …

J. Cole’s Dreamville Festival in North Carolina has canceled its 2020 event, rescheduled for August, due to the coronavirus pandemic. “After much deliberation and careful monitoring of the current situation, we have decided to cancel Dreamville Festival 2020,” organizers said in a statement Friday. “Although we originally hoped it would …

As a former secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, serving under President Obama, and a former governor of Kansas, during the George W. Bush era, Kathleen Sebelius has a unique perspective on the challenges posed by a pandemic, the urgency of coordinating a federal response, and the …

Cruises chartered by Kiss, Kesha and more have been postponed to 2021 due to ongoing concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. The Kiss Kruise, Kesha’s Weird and Wonderful Rainbow Ride 2, the Melissa Etheridge Cruise IV and Coheed and Cambria’s S.S. Neverender have all been rescheduled for next fall. New dates …

This story appears in the June 2020 print edition of Rolling Stone. In late April Marko Kolanovic, a financial analyst for JPMorgan Chase, wrote to clients with good news. Pandemic aside, investors should expect stock prices in S&P 500 companies to return to record numbers some time early next year! …

The filmed performance of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s award-winning and record-breaking Broadway musical Hamilton is getting a much earlier release date than initially planned.Hamilton will be premiering on Disney+ on July 3rd, just in time for Independence Day and nearly 15 months earlier than its original theatrical date of October 15th, 2021. …

John Oliver highlighted the current COVID-19 crisis within the United States Postal Service during his Sunday night segment ofLast Week Tonight, pointing out that over 1,000 postal workers have tested positive for COVID-19 and that 40 have died from it. As Samantha Bee noted in a similar segment on Full …

Little Richard‘s reign as a Top 40 hitmaker may have been relatively brief, but thanks to his larger-than-life persona, love of the camera, and eagerness to perform anywhere and everywhere, he stayed in the spotlight decade after decade. That’s one reason his death is touching so many different generations today. …

Just over a month after Daniel Hernandez walked out of prison due to concerns about the spread of coronavirus, the controversial rapper also known as Tekashi 6ix9ine has released his first song. After pleading guilty to a litany of charges, including racketeering and armed robbery, following his November 2018 arrest, …

Ever since touring promoters Live Nation and AEG made the unprecedented decision to cancel and postpone tens of thousands of shows starting in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic, the United States has not held one major concert with a live audience. As stay-at-home orders close in on their eighth …