President Trump has been calling a lot of people racist lately. Most of these people, as it so happens, are people of color. This is not a coincidence. Trump’s latest target is Reverend Al Sharpton, who is in Baltimore on Monday following the president’s tweets that the congressional district of …
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Trisha Yearwood wrestles with heartache and shadows from the past in the intensely dramatic “Workin’ on Whiskey,” the latest preview of the singer’s forthcoming album, Every Girl. Backed by keening guitars, Yearwood’s vocals move from delicately tender to powerfully agonizing as she equates romance with hard liquor, singing, “I’ve tried …
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Since moving to Charleston Danny McBride has welcomed several famous friends to his home, but none so strange as Kanye West. During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote his new HBO series The Righteous Gemstones the actor described a truly insane day with the rapper. “I had a …
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On Wednesday night, NBC News reported that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who is currently awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy, was found injured and semi-conscious in his cell with two abrasions on his neck. While initial details were sketchy, sources at Metropolitan Correctional Center, the …
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One of B.B. King‘s iconic Gibson electric guitars — each affectionately nicknamed “Lucille” — will soon hit the auction block. The late blues musician’s black ES-345 prototype, a gift from the guitar company to mark King’s 80th birthday, is valued between $80,000 and $100,000 for Julien’s Auctions’ September 21st sale. …
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Bruce Springsteen’s upcoming film Western Stars will make its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September. Directed by Springsteen’s longtime collaborator Thom Zimny, it shows him playing the songs from his new LP of the same name with the backing band who helped record the album. “We knew …
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WASHINGTON — Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle Association, increasingly looks like the last man standing at the powerful gun lobbying group. LaPierre orchestrated the departures of Oliver North, the former NRA president who raised the alarm about questionable accounting under LaPierre’s watch, and Chris Cox, the former …
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Earth, Wind & Fire and Linda Ronstadt have been named 2019 Kennedy Center Honors recipients, the organization announced on Thursday. Sally Field, children’s TV program Sesame Street and San Francisco Symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas are also among those who will receive the award for lifetime achievement in the …
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French synth-pop band Phoenix announced a new book, titled Phoenix: Liberté, Égalité, Phoenix! Described as “a superfan’s chronicle of the evolution of a band,” it’s due out October 15th. Phoenix: Liberté, Égalité, Phoenix! will draw on Phoenix’s personal archive of photographs, notes, lyrics and more, and will be accompanied by an …
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Ellie Goulding and Juice Wrld swipe and smoke away breakup woes in their new video for “Hate Me.” The single follows Goulding’s previously released visuals for “Sixteen”and“Flux.” The Saam Farahmand-directed clip showcases the artists navigating contentious splits in a technological, social media-dominated world, where every move can have public-facing consequences. …
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