The make America great again president proved once again, during a Friday night rally in Georgia, that’s it’s really just all about him. With coronavirus cases rising under his watch, and 218,000 of his fellow citizens already dead from the virus, Trump took time out of another super spreader event …
Read More »Will Kamala Harris Take Mike Pence to Task for the White House Covid-19 Outbreak?
The vice presidential debate shouldn’t be happening. Not in person, anyway. Since the White House Rose Garden event commemorating President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court late last month, Vice President Pence has been exposed to an untold number of Covid-positive individuals, both inside and outside …
Read More »Letterman Takes Selfies With Kim Kardashian West, Learns Flute From Lizzo in 'My Next Guest' Trailer
David Letterman takes selfies with Kim Kardashian West, tries recording a song with Lizzo, and more in the new trailer for Season Three of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, premiering October 21st on Netflix. Along with Kardashian West and Lizzo, the new season of the former Late Show host’s …
Read More »'No Time to Die' Release Date Pushed Back Again to 2021
UPDATE (10/2): The release date for No Time to Die has been pushed back again to April 2nd, 2021, almost exactly one year later than its initial March 31st, 2020 release date. “MGM, Universal and Bond producers, Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, today announced the release of No Time …
Read More »'RS Interview: Special Edition': Margaret Atwood
Last fall, Margaret Atwood published The Testaments, a sequel to her 1985 bestseller, The Handmaid’s Tale, which for decades has served as a cautionary tale about how easily a once-democratic and thriving country such as the United States can slip into authoritarian rule. Since the success of the Emmy-winning Hulu …
Read More »Robin Pecknold's Season of Rebirth
In the spring of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic tore through New York City at terrifying speed, Robin Pecknold stayed home in his rented one-bedroom apartment in Greenwich Village. “I wasn’t being creative at all,” says the Fleet Foxes singer-songwriter, 34. “There were some dark weeks where I would end …
Read More »Willie Nelson Recalls Playing in a Polka Band in Audiobook Excerpt of New Memoir
Willie Nelson‘s latest book, Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family Band, is a collaboration with his sibling Bobbie Nelson, a 47-year member of Nelson’s always-in-motion touring group. Released September 15th, it finds Willie and Bobbie recalling their musical lives in alternating chapters. Both Nelsons read the memoir …
Read More »'Dune' Trailer Helps Young Music Fans Discover One of Rock's Most Popular Albums
It was a match made in soundtrack heaven: The new trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming adaptation of Dune — one of the most popular sci-fi novels ever — deploying a rearranged version of Pink Floyd’s “Eclipse,” the closing track from one of the most popular rock albums ever, The Dark …
Read More »How Mandy Patinkin's Family Twitter Became a Vehicle for Change
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit in March, many adults returned to their parents’ houses to flee lonely city apartments or sheltering in place with prickly roommates. Gideon Grody-Patinkin, 34, was one of them — but instead of regressing in his childhood bedroom and sniping at Mom and Dad, he helped …
Read More »Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle Are Facing Off in Next 'Verzuz' Battle
Verzuz will feature its two most iconic artists yet when Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle square off on the quarantine-era song battle show. Brandy and Monica duked it out on the last Verzuz stream. Knight and LaBelle’s match-up will air on Sunday, September 13th simultaneously via the Verzuz Instagram Live …
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