The other week, Sigrid went to a park. The rising Norwegian pop star had been touring for a while, and the cities were beginning to blur. “It’s a very intense profession,” she says. “You’re always on.” So, when her taxi passed a park on the way to another hotel, she …
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“I love performing,” Adrianne Lenker says, “but unfortunately, the bigger you get, the more mitote.” Mitote (pronounced “mih-toe-tay”) is a word that Lenker and her bandmates in Big Thief have been using a lot lately. They found it in a 1997 book of spiritual philosophy called The Four Agreements, by …
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There’s no great mystery about what Attorney General William Barr did Wednesday during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He knows that Senate Democrats don’t have the votes or the power to do anything substantial to impair his tragic choice to protect President Trump from the substantiated allegations against …
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Serial killers and cuckoo soldiers, talking birds and friendly demons — it’s an everything-and-the-kitchen-sink month in streaming programming. Hulu and Amazon have both attempted to translate a complex literary treasure for the screen, while Netflix reintroduces Zac Efron as a bloodthirsty dreamboat and turns Ali Wong and Tiffany Haddish into …
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Netflix premiered the trailer for ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads, an original documentary film on the life and death of legendary blues guitarist Robert Johnson. As the trailer details, Johnson was a little-known musician and juke joint performer in Mississippi during the early 1930s, before mysteriously disappearing for a year …
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A group of un-super humans try to take down a corrupt cadre of superheroes in the trailer for the new Amazon series, The Boys. The show will premiere April 29th at the Tribeca Film Festival before arriving on Amazon July 26th. Based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s comic of …
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Aaron Watson has revealed the first 13 dates of his Red Bandana Tour, which will kick off June 28th in the singer’s hometown of Abilene, Texas, and wrap on the West Coast in early September. The tour takes its name from Watson’s 12th studio album Red Bandana, set for release …
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Hip-hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy explores the racially-charged history of the War on Drugs, specifically marijuana, in his directorial debut, Grass Is Greener, set to premiere on Netflix — fittingly — April 20th. The new trailer for the documentary opens with Freddy examining the connection between music and marijuana, with …
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According to two separate reports, from CNN and the New York Times, President Donald Trump told Customs and Border Protection Commissioner and Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan that he would “pardon him if he ever went to jail for denying US entry to migrants.” Both outlets, citing anonymous administration …
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UPDATE: President Trump on Friday confirmed the Washington Post‘s reporting, tweeting that the administration is currently giving “strong considerations” to transporting detained migrants to sanctuary cities, a proposal Immigration and Customs Enforcement has already rejected twice. Original post below. *** President Trump’s supporters have tried to own the libs by …
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