A review of this week’s WandaVision coming up just as soon as I tell you a story about my temp job… (With apologies to Sherwood Schwartz and Frank De Vol…) Here’s the story of a lovely lady who was hexing up a very lovely life. She had bought a nice …
Read More »
The attack on the U.S. Capitol may have been set the stage for more violence to come, U.S. intelligence agencies are warning in a new advisory. The joint bulletin distributed by the National Counterterrorism Center and the Justice and Homeland Security Departments — and first reported by the New York …
Read More »
How the hell was this allowed to happen? Trump and the greater MAGA community for weeks promoted a massive January 6th rally in Washington, D.C. The president promised the gathering of thousands who felt the election had been stolen from them would be “wild.” The internet was lighting up with …
Read More »
The carnival-like atmosphere conveyed by images and video from the attack on the Capitol this week was deceptive. Not only did the mayhem lead to five deaths, including a police officer, but according to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, “There was something way, way darker, more violent, more sinister, and more organized …
Read More »
Morgan Wallen’s debut single, 2016’s “The Way I Talk” was a fitting introduction to the former Voice contestant from East Tennessee. Like countless country singers before him, Wallen employed his small-town drawl, which feels so resonantly country that it can seem like the product of a Music Row laboratory, as …
Read More »
Nobody expected thousands of Trump supporters to infiltrate the Capitol Building in D.C. on Wednesday, but it was, as Stephen Colbert described it, “the most shocking, most tragic, least surprising thing I’ve ever seen.” TheLate Show host delivered an impromptu live monologue on Wednesday night and held back no punches …
Read More »
On Friday, the New York Times reported that singer FKA Twigs, 32, is suing actor and director Shia LaBeouf for physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. In an interview with the Times, Twigs, whose real name is Tahliah Barnett, alleged that the 34-year-old actor, whom she met on the set of …
Read More »
Money talks — loudly enough that it could just as well be the fourth wheel to the troubled trio at the center of Let Them Talk, the new Steven Soderbergh movie, which is currently streaming on HBO Max. The movie’s got a solid premise. Three former college friends — Alice …
Read More »
Neil Young announced that he will make his Archives site free for the holidays. Young will waive the monthly $2 fee ($20 annually) and make available his entire catalog — including the new Archives Volume II (1972-1976),his complete Fireside Sessions series, and his upcoming film Timeless Orpheum, which documents his …
Read More »
Julien Temple had never considered making a documentary about Shane MacGowan, the sensational, shambolic former Pogues frontman, until MacGowan himself asked him to do it. The pair had met in the mid-Seventies when MacGowan was just another punk pogoing at the Sex Pistols’ early shows, and they have remained friendly …
Read More »