Cyndi Lauper will receive the inaugural High Note Global Prize for her efforts to help prevent and end homelessness among LGBTQ youth. Kesha will give the award to Lauper December 10th at the latter’s “Home for the Holidays” benefit concert at the Novo in Los Angeles. The show will feature …
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Internet trolls don’t troll. Not the professionals at least. Professional trolls don’t go on social media to antagonize liberals or belittle conservatives. They are not narrow minded, drunk or angry. They don’t lack basic English language skills. They certainly aren’t “somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds,” as …
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Kate Nash is recalling a nightmare she had recently. In the dream, the musician and star of the Netflix series GLOW remembers being on a raft in a dark tunnel, surrounded by man-eating killer whales. “I escaped the tunnel, and I was running around in this carpark, with all these …
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It seems odd at first that Todd Haynes, the artful creator of such classic queer cinema as Far From Heaven, Velvet Goldmine and Carol, would be drawn to such a just-the-facts legal barnburner like Dark Waters. But the filmmaker approaches the whistleblower genre, solidly repped by such films as Erin …
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On Wednesday, Kacey Musgraves sat down with Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon for her first ever late-night interview. The six-time Grammy winner, who corrected – then played along with – Fallon when he incorrectly stated that she had won eight of the statuettes, was on hand to promoted her upcoming …
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In one of this year’s better holiday movies, Netflix’s Let It Snow, two teens belt out the Waterboys’ “Whole of the Moon” in an empty church, their voices unskilled but sincere. Tobin (Mitchell Hope) plays the organ while “The Duke” (Kiernan Shipka) sings along — you don’t need to know …
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Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman is a decorated combat veteran whose career in the armed services spanned more than two decades. Republicans are now trying to paint Vindman as having dual loyalty to Ukraine, the country he emigrated to the United States from as a small child. During Vindman’s testimony before …
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Niall Horan has shared an acoustic version of his song “Nice to Meet Ya,” recorded live for Vevo. The rock star performed the song with a full backing band, but with a more stripped-down arrangement than the official single. The tiny studio highlights the intimacy of the performance. Co-written by …
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Fueled by Wednesday’s 53rd annual CMA Awards, country albums saw an 82% increase in digital sales, while country song sales were up 120% and sales of songs actually performed on the telecast jumped 1000%, according to Alpha Data, the data analytics company that powers the Rolling Stone charts. Dan + …
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A review of this week’s The Good Place, “The Funeral to End All Funerals,” coming up just as soon as I reboot Ally McBeal… “The Funeral to End All Funerals” is a promising episode in terms of the remainder of the season, but also a bit of a frustrating one …
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