“Anyone have a Triple A card?” asks Midland‘s Mark Wystrach, climbing into the middle row of a Pepto-Bismol-colored vintage Cadillac limo that’s currently parked outside of a hip East Nashville bed and breakfast called, appropriately, Urban Cowboy. Though it looks impossibly cool, the interior of this thing is more aging …
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Pink has weighed in on the polarizing debate involvingSeaWorldand its housing of killer whales, with the singer and animal rights activist e-mailing the company: “When will SeaWorld transfer its orcas and other marine mammals to seaside sanctuaries to save them – and itself?” The pop star sent the letter to …
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For Dierks Bentley, there’s nothing quite as welcoming as an elk carcass and a tray of weed brownies, high up in the Colorado mountains. At least that’s what greeted him when he arrived at the Studio in the Clouds, an eco lodge-cum-recording mecca in Telluride, to make his newest LP, …
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For a few hours almost every month, the West Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center is transformed into a courtroom. A giant American flag hangs above the stage at the center of the hall. “All rise,” says a clerk, and between 3,000 and 5,000 applicants for citizenship rise from …
Read More »#FreeMeekMill: Exclusive Interview With Rapper From Prison
Meek Mill loves dirt bikes the way Mick Fanning loves big waves and Jimmy Chin loves hanging off four-mile-high towers. It’s an inconvenient passion that may one day maim or kill him – but if you’d seen as much death as he did by 18, you wouldn’t be particular about …
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