Republicans in the state of Georgia muscled through a sweeping new law that will dramatically roll back access to the ballot box in the nation’s most hotly contested battleground state. The new law, passed by both chambers of the state legislature and signed by Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday, is …
Read More »Miley Cyrus Reflects on 'Hannah Montana' on 15th Anniversary of Show's Premiere
Miley Cyrus shared a sweet open letter to her “alter ego” Hannah Montana on March 24th to mark the 15th anniversary of the premiere of the Disney channel show that helped launched the pop star’s career. Related: Stream Hannah Montana on Disney+ The show’s classic conceit famously found Cyrus playing …
Read More »If the U.S. Can Get Vaccinated by Summer, When Do We Get Concerts Back?
“Who is it that’s going to take the chance to go back on tour?” The question, voiced by a prominent music booking agent in the U.S., captures the sentiment of roiling uncertainty across the music industry right now. When President Joe Biden said this week that America will have enough …
Read More »Tina Turner Overcomes a Childhood Loss in New Documentary Trailer
HBO has released the first trailer for its upcoming documentary on Tina Turner, Tina, set to premiere March 27th. The clip is centered around a snippet from a new interview Turner gave for the film, in which she tells a story about her mother, who ran off when Turner was …
Read More »Zendaya, 'I May Destroy You' and 9 Other Big Golden Globes 2021 Snubs
Listen, everyone knew that awards season was going to be a little weird this year — it wouldn’t be representative of 2020 if it wasn’t. And the Hollywood Foreign Press Association always brings its share of curveballs to the conversation. With this morning’s Golden Globes nominations, that meant a slate …
Read More »In Praise of 'Sandinista!': Why the Clash's Triple-Album Mess Is Also Their Masterpiece
Forty years ago this winter, a strange new album arrived in U.S. record stores. It was a triple-vinyl set, by a London band still best known as punk rockers: the Clash’s Sandinista! It was barely a year after their global breakthrough, London Calling, which got them a U.S. Top 40 …
Read More »Ariel Pink Dropped by Record Label After Attending Pro-Trump Rally
Record label Mexican Summer has cut ties with Ariel Pink after the indie musician drew criticism for attending the pro-Trump rally in Washington D.C. earlier this week. “Due to recent events, Mexican Summer and its staff have decided to end our working relationship with Ariel Rosenberg AKA Ariel Pink moving …
Read More »'Juno' Star Elliot Page Comes Out as Transgender
Elliot Page, formerly known as Ellen Page, has come out as transgender and non-binary. The actor released a statement to social media on Tuesday, writing: “Hi friends, I want to share with you that I am trans, my pronouns are he/they, and my name is Elliot. I feel lucky to …
Read More »Ricky Martin Talks New Music, What It Means to Be a Gay Latino Icon
Ricky Martin had long been an international superstar before he began “Livin’ La Vida Loca” — and there seems to have been hardly a dull moment in the 20 years since. In 2010, the Puerto Rican singer came out to his fans as a gay man; nearly 10 years later, …
Read More »Coronavirus Is Killing the Working Mother
In Deb Perelman’s recent New York Times op-ed, “In the COVID-19 Economy, You Can Have a Kid or a Job. You Can’t Have Both,” she details the impossibility of parenting small children during the COVID-19 epidemic, writing, “We are not burned out because life is hard this year. We are …
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