Former One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson honored his late mother on his poignant new song, “Two of Us.” Tomlinson’s mother died in 2016, and “Two of Us” finds the singer both grappling with grief and striving towards hope amidst a swell of strings, piano and booming drums. “I know you’ll …
Read More »Netflix Adapting Novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' Into New Series
Netflix is adapting One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez’s acclaimed 1967 novel, into an original Spanish-language series. The late author’s sons Rodrigo Garcia and Gonzalo Garcia Barcha will executive produce the show, which will be filmed primarily in the writer’s native Colombia. In a statement about the project, …
Read More »Review: Maren Morris Makes Her Bid for Top 40 Glory With 'Girl'
Maren Morris made her bones as one of country’s brightest new upstarts three years ago with her major-label debut, Hero. She introduced herself as a Texas songwriter with a sharp eye, a velvet voice and a mean streak, especially when it came to her irreverent attitude toward Nashville pieties. “My …
Read More »'Now Apocalypse' Review: A Near-Parody of Oversexed Prestige TV
In one episode of the endearingly peculiar and energetic new Starz comedy Now Apocalypse (Sunday nights at 9 p.m.), the show’s directionless hero Ulysses (Avan Jogia), has sex with a hot delivery guy, then asks if his life is some “never-ending porno.” The delivery guy suggests this was an anomaly …
Read More »Watch John Mulaney Star in 'SNL' Musical Parody 'Bodega Bathroom'
When John Mulaney hosted Saturday Night Live last year, he starred in one of the show’s strangest sketches with “Diner Lobster:” a musical parody presenting a cautionary tale of ordering lobster at a diner. On the latest episode, Mulaney returned to host SNL and featured as a bodega owner in …
Read More »Why Small-Town Theater Productions of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Are Being Threatened With Legal Action
UPDATE: In an emailed statement, Scott Rudin reiterated to Rolling Stonethat he was working to “enforce the agreement” made with the estate of the late author, Harper Lee. He also added that he has been “hard at work” creating a solution for this problem. “In an effort to ameliorate the …
Read More »Panda Bear on How Latin Trap Informed His New LP, What's Next for Animal Collective
Along with his cohorts in Animal Collective, Panda Bear — a.k.a. singer-songwriter Noah Lennox — has spent the past two decades fashioning a psychedelic hybrid that defies all existing genre definitions. Yet while bandmates Avey Tare, Deakin and Geologist were at work on 2018’s Tangerine Reef, their marine-themed ambient LP, …
Read More »Watch Amy Schumer Riff on Pregnancy: 'You Don't Stop Being You'
“I’m fucking pregnant,” Amy Schumer announces in a sing-song voice while rubbing her belly at the beginning of the trailer for her upcoming Netflix special, Amy Schumer Growing. But don’t expect her to become someone else, simply because she’s expecting. “Here’s the thing, you’re pregnant, but, like, you don’t change …
Read More »How Republicans Tried to Sabotage the Michael Cohen Testimony
Michael Cohen‘s testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday started with a bang. The opening statement delivered by President Trump’s former attorney and fixer was strewn with bombshell revelations, including claims that Trump knew about WikiLeaks plan to release Democratic National Committee emails hacked by Russia; that he was …
Read More »Terrorism, Torture and 3,600 Lives Lost: Revisiting 'the Troubles' in Northern Ireland
One evening in late 1972, a young mother of 10 named Jean McConville was taken from her home in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, by four men and four women in masks. McConville’s children would never see or hear from her again. She had been disappeared and likely killed, …
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