By Melissa Romualdi. Published: 2 hours ago Owen Wilson once received the best gift any Rolling Stones fan could ever wish for — an all-access backstage pass that was his to keep forever. But, after just one night of using the VIP laminate, things quickly went south and his pass was revoked. Wilson recalled what […]
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Where Lana Del Rey last left us and where she lives in our memory are two different places. For some, she will exist forever inside the grand vision of her 2019 album and its hyperbolic songs, “The Greatest,” “The Next Best American Record,” and emphasis-laden title track, “Norman Fucking Rockwell,” painting a portrait of America […]
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Donald Glover’s Amazon Studio project Swarm released all its episodes this week on Amazon Prime. Co-created with Atlanta writer Janine Nabers, Swarm is a horror-thriller series that stars Dominique Fishback as Dre, a young woman obsessed with a pop star named Ni’Jah. Dre’s own life is full of disconnect and abandonment, and she seems to […]
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Beauty and grooming rituals have long been a part of the Black experience. Historically, everything from hairstyling to body art has represented where we come from and to which community we belonged. But then we fast forward to the mid to late 20th century, when many of our beauty choices—while still widely culturally driven—were heavily […]
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Spoilers ahead. After tearing through Daisy Jones & the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2019 novel about the meteoric rise of a fictional ’70s band not unlike Fleetwood Mac, the biggest question on my mind was: What does this iconic band sound like? Thanks to Prime Video’s new miniseries based on the book, we now have […]
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By Emerson Pearson. Published: 45 mins ago Tattoo culture has been essential to style and self-expression in the NBA for over a decade. The new Tidal League series “Sessions” gives a behind-the-scenes look at NBA players and the tattoos they get. Matt Mangano (founder of popular Instagram account @InkedNBA) hosts the show as it roams […]
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Erupting onto the international arthouse scene with the force of a cannonball in Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac, Mia Goth rapidly ascended to the highest heights of a kind of edgy art-stardom by remaining utterly faithful to two opposing principles: maximalism and restraint. Whenever Goth is on screen she radiates with a near-blinding intensity. Ferocity, pitiful […]
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On Friday, actress Priyanka Chopra appeared at the 2023 SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas, sitting down for a conversation alongside Amazon Studios’ Jennifer Salke. Chopra stars across from Richard Madden in the streaming studio’s upcoming series Citadel and said during their discussion that this project was the first time she was paid the same as […]
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Happy new-music-Miley day to all those who celebrate! Coinciding with the release of Cyrus’ eighth studio album, Endless Summer Vacation, the artist also put out a special edition of Backyard Sessions exclusively on Disney+. In the 42-minute concert doc, Cyrus performs and talks about the inspiration behind her songs. “If you’re close to me and […]
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Is the Nashville music industry still a boys’ club? My new novel, The Farewell Tour, follows a fierce, ambitious female singer-songwriter named Lillian Waters who is trying to crack the country-music establishment from the 1940s through the 1980s. Lillian balances multiple day jobs, struggles with rejection, and even into her 40s, is categorized as a […]
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