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As the pandemic took hold in March, Keith Richards called up Mick Jagger with an idea: The Stones should rush-release “Living in a Ghost Town,” a funky song they’d recorded not long ago for their first album of new songs since 2005. “I said, ‘Hey man, if there’s a time …

Danai Gurira has released a statement in remembrance of Chadwick Boseman following news of the actor’s death last Friday. Gurira co-starred with Boseman in the Marvel filmBlack Panther, where she portrayed the Wakanda warrior Okoye. “How do you honor a king? Reeling from the loss of my colleague, my friend, …

It will not take viewers very long to pick up on the fact that The Personal History of David Copperfield is unlike your typical stuffed-shirt period piece. Yes, there are elegant dresses and frocks, and men wear waistcoats and extremely tall hats, and horses and street urchins skitter along the …

What is more normal — and expected — each end of summer than students and teachers to return to school? So far, the coronavirus crisis has killed an estimated 180,000 so far within United States borders. And in some cases, public school teachers have been deemed “essential workers” and told …

In his convention speech Wednesday night, Vice President Mike Pence backed cops to the hilt, while baselessly warning that a Biden administration would leave America unprotected. Pence even invoked a line from the mythology of American policing — that cops represent a fragile barrier between social order and unbridled violence. …

On Saturday, President Donald Trump fired off one of his most deranged, conspiratorial, and flat-out terrifying tweets since he took office — which at this point is really saying something. “The deep state, or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people …

The socially distanced Democratic National Convention is sure to give us some high-tech bloopers. <<I’m sorry Governor Cuomo, you’re going to need to take yourself off mute.>> But without live delegates, in a physical stadium, with actual balloons and streamers, and politicians trying to project the best (if not most …

In the pandemic election of 2020, restricting access to the ballot box is as simple as restricting access to the mailbox. And this week, Donald Trump accelerated efforts to do just that. On Thursday, he openly linked his efforts to block full funding of the postal service with his crusade …

For more than a year, the Turnpike Troubadours have been on what they have termed an indefinite hiatus. During that time, band co-founder and front man Evan Felker has kept a low profile, staying far away from media (social or otherwise), and distancing himself from the high-profile turmoil that dogged …

A film about the life of Ozzy Osbourne is in its “very, very early” stages, according to Jack Osbourne, whose production company is working on the picture. “We have a writer,” Ozzy’s son says. “We said to go from 1979 to 1996. I can’t say too much, but the film …