Meet the Barbers. Andrew (Chris Evans) is a hotshot assistant district attorney, crusading for truth and justice in Newton, Massachusetts. Laurie (Michelle Dockery) is the face of Children’s Cottage, a school dedicated to serving traumatized and abused kids in the greater Boston area. Their son, Jacob (Jaeden Martell), is a …
Read More »Mark Lanegan on Why Kurt Cobain's Death Still Haunts Him, How Courtney Love Saved His Life
For a quarter of a century now, Mark Lanegan has been running away from his past. From the mid-Eighties until 2000, he fronted Screaming Trees, a hard rocking, neo-psychedelic band that got swept up in the major labels’ Seattle-grunge gold rush and crossed over into the mainstream with “Nearly Lost …
Read More »See John Legend, Common, St. Vincent Cover Prince at Grammy Tribute
Three months after the all-star special was taped during Grammy weekend, Let’s Go Crazy: The Grammy Tribute To Prince aired Tuesday to mark the fourth anniversary of Prince’s death. In addition to the participation of Prince collaborators like the Revolution, Sheila E. and Morris Day & The Time, the special …
Read More »Willie Nelson Sings 'Hello Walls' With Sons Lukas, Micah on 'Colbert'
Willie Nelson‘s “Hello Walls” takes on new meaning in the age of social distancing and quarantine. The country music legend and his sons Lukas and Micah recorded an at-home version of the tune, a 1961 hit for Faron Young, for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Filmed at their Luck …
Read More »Why Respectable Doctors Choose to Mix With Cranks and Quacks on Fox News
For the loyal viewers of Fox News, the tired face and ragged voice of Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, one of the country’s foremost infectious-disease experts, have become something of a familiar sight. On America’s Newsroom on March 13th, he discussed best practices for personal hygiene during the novel coronavirus outbreak. …
Read More »The Green New Deal Is Cheap, Actually
Opposition to the Green New Deal is often framed as a matter of cost. President Trump’s re-election campaign blasted the “radical” plan, claiming it would “cost trillions of dollars, wreck our economy, and decimate millions of energy jobs.” But science shows that the costs of unchecked global temperature rise are …
Read More »Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger Hospitalized Due to Coronavirus
Songwriter Adam Schlesinger, best known for co-founding Fountains of Wayne, has been hospitalized due to the coronavirus, but has not been placed in a medically induced coma as suggested elsewhere. Varietyfirst reported the news and Schlesinger’s long-time attorney, Josh Grier, confirmed the details to Rolling Stone. Schlesinger has been in …
Read More »Dan Rather on Trump's Coronavirus Approach: 'It's Disgraceful'
“As Lyndon Johnson said, ‘I’m hunkered down like a mule in a hailstorm,’ ” says Dan Rather from his New York apartment. Now 88, the veteran reporter and newsman is holed up like many in his city, but he’s hardly silent. Although it’s been 14 years since he and CBS …
Read More »Kevin Bacon Advocates for Social Distancing With 'Six Degrees' Initiative
Kevin Bacon knows a thing or six about how interconnected the world is, given he’s long been a central figure discussed in the six degrees of separation concept, which asserts that each of us are linked by six or less people. Expanding on the “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” game …
Read More »See Chris and Rich Robinson Perform Black Crowes Classics at Love Rocks NYC Gig
Chris and Rich Robinson — as the acoustic duo Brothers of a Feather — delivered a three-song set of Black Crowes classics during the brothers’ performance at this year’s Love Rocks NYC benefit. Ahead of the band’s Shake Your Money Maker 30th anniversary reunion tour, the Robinson brothers performed the …
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