When was it exactly that politics went tabloid? Try 1988, when Gary Hart (Hugh Jackman), a married Democratic senator from Colorado, thought the media buzz about his alleged affair with model Donna Rice (Sara Paxton) could escape scrutiny as he ran for the White House. The press turned a blind …
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Maggie Rogers made her Saturday Night Live debut on the show’s latest Jonah Hill-hosted episode, joining Kanye West, Paul Simon and Travis Scott as musical guests on the 44th season. The high-profile appearance was likely the first time many SNL viewers had heard of Rogers, who first popped up on …
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A review of this week’s The Romanoffs, “Bright and High Circle,” coming up just as soon as I think like a bus driver… “Bright and High Circle” is an astoundingly bad episode of television. Just focusing on it as a dramatic narrative, the characters feel thin and wholly subservient to …
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Slow torture for kids and grownups alike, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms gives a bad name to the very concept of family entertainment. What went wrong? Where to begin?!? On the surface, this Disney debacle seems like a no-brainer for the holidays: It’s an 1816 gothic fairytale by E.T.A. …
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The Beastie Boys‘ Mike “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz spoke about their new memoir, the time Adam “MCA” Yauch stage-crashed an Aerosmith and Run-D.M.C. show, the art of making mixtapes and more on The Tonight Show Wednesday. During the interview, Ad-Rock told two wild stories about the late …
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If you build it, they will, apparently, rock. Even as guitar-based rock faded in the mainstream, an educational infrastructure teaching kids how to play it has flourished over the course of this century. Options range from the for-profit School of Rock chain (which existed prior to the Jack Black-helmed movie) …
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A$AP Rocky will head out on the Injured Generation Tour in 2019 in support of the Harlem rapper’s latest album Testing. The 18-date trek begins January 8th in Minneapolis, Minnesota and hits midsized arenas on both coasts and between before the run ends February 6th in Kent, Washington. A$AP Rocky …
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Barack Obama has had it with President Donald Trump and the Republican party. The former president let loose during campaign stops Friday in Milwaukee and Detroit, where he encouraged Democrats to get out and vote in the midterms andwarned that the“character of our country is on the ballot” in the …
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Laura Jane Grace has shared another new track “Reality Bites” from Bought to Rot, the Against Me! rocker’s upcoming debut LP with new project the Devouring Mothers. The latest punk salvo clocks in at two minutes, powered by a locked-in guitar/bass/drums framework, finds Grace singing on the chorus, “You are …
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Natalie Portman plays an eccentric pop star navigating the comeback trail in the mesmerizing new trailer for Vox Lux. The film will open in New York and Los Angeles December 7th, with a wider release scheduled for December 14th. The Brady Corbet-directed film tells the story of Celeste, a young …
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