Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have remained steadfast hosting partners for three Golden Globes ceremonies, at each other sides as they trade whipsmart, stick-it-to-Hollywood one-liners at the A-listers in the front row. But in their fourth stint leading the Globes on Sunday night, the two comedians were thousands of miles …
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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 »Joe Biden Para Presidente
Hemos vivido los últimos cuatro años bajo un hombre rotundamente incapaz de ser presidente. Afortunadamente para los EE. UU., Joe Biden es lo opuesto a Donald Trump en casi todas las categorías: el nominado presidencial demócrata demuestra aptitud, compasión, firmeza, integridad y moderación. Y quizá lo más importante en este …
Read More »Neko Case Announces Pair of Outdoor Concerts in New England
Neko Case has announced two outdoor, socially distanced shows in New England for this fall. The first concert will be held on Tuesday, October 13th, at South Farms in Morris, Connecticut, about two hours outside of New York City. The show is part of the venue’s Twilight Concerts on the …
Read More »John Oliver Taps John Cena, Alex Trebek to Help Debunk COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories
John Oliver explored the spread of COVID-19 conspiracy theories, examined what makes such outlandish claims so appealing and enlisted the help of several celebrities to stop the spread of misinformation on Last Week Tonight. A global pandemic is the perfect kind of fodder for conspiracy theories, Oliver noted, and far …
Read More »Battleground Michigan: Inside the Fights Over the President and the Pandemic
This story appears in the August 2020 print edition of Rolling Stone. The bells of Hamtramck’s Saint Florian Church ring out for Sunday Mass. The building was enlarged in 1928, and the June sun glances off a spire built 200 feet high so that its Polish-immigrant parishioners would have a …
Read More »The New Reality for Concerts in COVID: Virtual Reality?
Jean-Michel Jarre thought livestreamed concerts were missing something. So he added virtual drugs. The French electronic music pioneer and former CISAC president has been one of the biggest champions of virtual-reality concerts — a concept that’s seeing a noticeable bump as coronavirus continues to stall the comeback of live music. …
Read More »Kid Rock's Nashville Bar Loses Beer Permit Over Covid-19 Violations
Kid Rock‘s Big Ass Honky Tonk and Rock & Roll Steakhouse will have its permit to sell beer suspended for five days after the Nashville venue served patrons at its bar — a violation of the city’s active public-health emergency order in regards to Covid-19. Currently, watering holes in Tennessee’s …
Read More »Elton John Praises Secondary School Cover of His Song 'I'm Still Standing'
School may be out, but music teachers are still bringing good cheer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ben Millington, an instructor at England’s Telford Priory School, led his students in a lockdown cover of Elton John’s “I’m Still Standing,” which he edited together as a music video and uploaded to YouTube …
Read More »Drive-in Concerts Are the Latest Test for Concert Promoters. But Will They Last?
For the first time since the pandemic sidelined live music in the U.S. in March, veteran DJ D-Nice finally had the chance to play an in-person live gig. D-Nice, who’s been a mainstay amid safer-at-home regulations with his popular Club Quarantine Instagram Live Sessions, flew out to Hallandale Beach, Florida …
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