Winter has come on Game of Thrones, but laughter barely did this week on Saturday Night Live. The Kit Harington-led episode suffered the same malaise as many middle episodes do in a three-week consecutive run: While it’s not fair to say the show should never do back-to-back-to-back episodes, you probably …
Read More »R. Kelly's Lawyer Calls Singer 'Sacrificial Lamb' After Sex Abuse Charges
R. Kelly‘s lawyer held a press conference Friday night outside the Chicago police station where the singer turned himself in to face 10 charges of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. “I suspect this is succumbing to public pressure,” Kelly’s lawyer Steven Greenberg told the media. “I think [prosecutors] shouldn’t have rushed …
Read More »Rolling Stones' Charlie Watts Opens Up to Chad Smith in Rare Interview
For many Rolling Stones fans, Charlie Watts is the band’s most mysterious and intriguing member. He’s a guy who prefers jazz to rock, yet has spent nearly 60 years playing in the world’s greatest rock & roll band. (When the Stones played Glastonbury in 2013, he said, “I don’t want …
Read More »Best Movies to See In Dec.: 'Aquaman,' 'Spider-Man,' 'Mary Poppins Returns'
What a year it’s been: Black Panther and BlacKkKlansman, First Reformed and First Man, Gotti and … well, Gotti. And now we finish 2018 nice ‘n’ strong this month with a last gasp of award contenders (Natalie Portman goes pop; Christian Bale bulks up; Steve Carell plays with dolls) and …
Read More »Federal Climate Change Report Warns of Bleak Economic, Societal Impact
The U.S. government quietly issued a troubling new report on climate change and mankind’s impact on the environment Friday. The 1,600-page document, scheduled for release next month but instead dumped on Black Friday, paints a bleak overview of the threat global warming poses in the United States, both climatically and …
Read More »Lindsey Buckingham: Life After Fleetwood Mac
Lindsey Buckingham and his wife, Kristen, were at home in Los Angeles on January 28th, watching the Grammy Awards ceremony on television, when the phone rang. Fleetwood Mac’s manager Irving Azoff was calling with a message for Buckingham from Stevie Nicks. The gist of it, Buckingham says, quoting Azoff: “Stevie …
Read More »New Manson Doc Goes Inside Spahn Ranch
It would be easy to believe that Fox’s new two-hour, Liev Schreiber-narrated special, Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes,would simply re-trod old territory. With so much already out there on the man, his followers and their infamous two-day murder spree in Los Angeles in August 1969, does this documentary …
Read More »Paul McCartney Announces Freshen Up Tour
UPDATE 2:Paul McCartney has added four additional shows to his 2019 Freshen Up tour. The new gigs, listed below, include stops in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Arlington, Texas, San Diego, California and Los Angeles, California. Tickets for the Green Bay concert go on sale December 10th at 10 a.m. local time, …
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