Amid mounting political pressure to legalize marijuana in New York, Bill de Blasio, the mayor of America’s largest city, remains locked in a prohibitionist mindset. At a press conference this week touting a new campaign to stamp out vermin (not a euphemism), the mayor fielded a question about pot. Seated …
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Showtime‘s Homeland will wrap after its upcoming eighth season, according to the show’s star Claire Danes. As The Hollywood Reporter reports, the actress confirmed the news during an interview with Howard Stern on Sirius XM on Wednesday. “Yeah, that’s it,” Danes said when Stern addressed the rumors that next season …
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UPDATE 2:Lauryn Hill has canceled several of the remaining dates of her Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 20th Anniversary tour,The Virginian-Pilotreports. Following her Pitchfork Music Festival performance last weekend, she canceled shows this week in Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina, and St. Petersburg, Florida, per Live Nation’s list of Hill’s upcoming …
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One of the odder bits of the public controversy surrounding President Trump and the Russia investigation is how Robert Mueller, James Comey and Andrew McCabe have become lumped together, as if all three G-men were the same. The president made that accusation explicit on Friday, tweeting“McCabe is Comey!!” But actually, …
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Eric Clapton will complement the upcoming home release of the revealing documentary Life in 12 Bars with a massive soundtrack featuring five unreleased songs. The Life in 12 Bars soundtrack – which features songs from all of the Clapton-affiliated bands and solo work as well as tracks by the Beatles, …
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When Wu-Tang Clan co-founder RZA was a teenager, he and his cousin, the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard, would skip class and head to the grindhouse to watch grainy, second-run B-movies. Of the countless films, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, a 1978 flick about a young renegade training in the martial …
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Copyright © Seth Hettena. Based on an excerpt fromTrump / Russia: A Definitive History to be published by Melville House Publishing on May 8th. Michael Cohen, President Trump’s long-time lawyer and personal “pit bull,” was brought to heel yesterday when federal agents raided his office in Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center. The …
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Tool members Danny Carey (drums), Justin Chancellor (bass) and Adam Jones (guitar) will walk fans through the writing, recording and performing processes during a series music clinics next month. The trio will six host discussions, wherein they will mingle with fans and display unique memorabilia. The traveling event kicks off …
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Joaquin Phoenix is smiling. “Was that an earthquake?!” he asks excitedly. At first, it’s imperceptible, but he’s right: He and director Lynne Ramsay are sitting in a Los Angeles office discussing their titanic thriller,You Were Never Really Here, when, suddenly, the ground begins shaking. It’s just a mild temblor, but …
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The mythic image of Johnny Cash as country music’s most iconic outlaw doesn’t always jibe with the fact that the Man in Black was also a sensitive, nuanced literary craftsman. That misconception may be corrected by Johnny Cash: Forever Words, a collection of Cash’s poems, lyrics and letters set to …
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