Yolande Norris-Clark gazes placidly into the camera, speaking in her best ASMR voice, honey-colored bangs lying flat against her forehead as if stuck there by glue. She is, she says, with her five youngest children (she has eight) in the jungles of Costa Rica, where she’s recently relocated from her …
Read More »Trailers of the Week: 'Excuse Me, I Love You,' 'The Midnight Sky,' 'Pinocchio,' And More
The Midnight Sky After setting out in search of a planet that could sustain human life, the crew aboard the spaceship Aether knows that they have finally found some answers. The only problem is that they’ve somehow lost contact with those on the ground back home waiting for them. On …
Read More »Year in Review: So, How Was Your 2020, Margo Price?
So, How Was Your 2020?is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. Margo Price shook things up with her third album That’s How Rumors Get Started, leaving her …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Kacy and Clayton, Marlon Williams, 'Your Mind's Walking Out'
On Friday, the Canadian folk duo Kacy Anderson and Clayton Linthicum pair up with New Zealand crooner Marlon Williams to release their first collaborative album, Plastic Bouquet. Despite the LP’s inanimate title, there’s nothing fake about the music contained therein. Like much of Kacy and Clayton’s output — including last …
Read More »Behind the New York Sound of Netflix's 'The Forty-Year-Old Version'
In The Forty-Year-Old Version, first-time filmmaker Radha Blank (who also wrote and stars in the movie) plays a fictionalized version of herself. A satire of “the theater world, middle age, New York, the racial and gendered expectations of commercial art,” as K. Austin Collins detailed in his review, the beautiful …
Read More »Brand Evolution and Communication During a Time of Change and Upheaval
Your brand is the expression of your ideas and the transferability of those said ideas to customers who will embrace your brand through purchases or other quantifiable ways. So, my question here is: Is your brand a living thing, and will it change over time? I believe that not only …
Read More »Barry Gibb and Jason Isbell on New Duet, Making Music With Family, and the Legacy of the Bee Gees
Barry Gibb and Jason Isbell may seem like an unlikely pair, but the Bee Gees legend has been always been a “freak” on old country music. “After the Bee Gees no longer existed, I drifted into my own bliss, which is this kind of music,” he says in the our …
Read More »Inside the Weed Legalization Bill the House of Representatives Just Passed
UPDATE: The House of Representatives passed the MORE Act on Friday by a vote of 228-164. The vote fell largely along party lines, with 6 Democrats voting against the bill and 5 Republicans voting for it. The chamber’s lone Libertarian member, Rep. Justin Amash, voted for it. “I’m so proud …
Read More »Hear Neal Casal's Final Solo Recordings 'Everything Is Moving' and 'Green Moon'
The final solo recordings of Neal Casal, the prolific solo artist and in-demand guitarist who died in August 2019, have been made available. “Everything Is Moving” and “Green Moon” were released Thursday to both pay tribute to Casal and raise funds for the Neal Casal Music Foundation, a nonprofit that …
Read More »Trump Takes His Donors to Graduate School at Trump University
Just days before his 2017 inauguration, Donald Trump coughed up $25 million to settle allegations that he’d defrauded students at his defunct Trump University. Four years later, as he scratches and claws to avoid leaving office, Trump is teaching a final master class in separating fools from their money. Log …
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