Prince announced that he was working on a memoir just weeks before his death on April 21, 2016. To fill out the unfinished manuscript that he left behind — more than 50 handwritten pages — The Beautiful Ones features behind-the-scenes photos, scrapbooks, and handwritten lyric sheets provided by Prince’s estate, …
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Renas Zuber lights another cigarette as the carnage plays out on TV. Two days after a temporary cease-fire was called on the Turkish invasion into northern Syria, civilians are under siege in the border town of Serekaniye. Cellphone footage looping onscreen shows a man writhing on the ground in a …
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FKA Twigs appeared on The Tonight Show to perform her emotional single “Cellophane” with the help of a pianist and cellist. Dressed in an ornate gown that she took off midway through the song, the singer sang from atop a catwalk-like stage, spinning on a pole with impressive skill. The …
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HBO has pulled the plug on a Game of Thrones prequel project starring Naomi Watts. The planned series was to take place thousands of years before the original show and would’ve been helmed by Jane Goldman (Kingsman: The Secret Service, X-Men: First Class, Kickass). Although the network filmed an entire pilot episode in …
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Two sets of headlines over the weekend described the suicide of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. From the Washington Post Sunday morning: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48 The Post has since rewritten that, though the description of an “austere religious scholar …
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Little Feat’s Paul Barrere, who served as guitarist and vocalist in the boogie rock band for nearly 50 years, died Saturday at the age of 71. The band confirmed Barrere’s death in a statement. While no cause of death was provided, the guitarist was undergoing treatment in his long battle …
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Several years ago, the singer-songwriter Maye penned a track titled “My Love.” “I was playing it locally in Miami, and every time I would play it, I would get a reaction,” she recalls. The key was a downshift into the hook: A sudden drop in tempo just as the single …
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Air quality in the United States is getting worse, and research suggests the dirty air is taking years off Americans’ lives. According to a study published this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research, fine particulate pollutionincreased 5.5 percent between 2016 and 2018, and evidence suggests the spike is …
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President Trump has famously boasted he could shoot a man in the middle of Fifth Avenue in New York City and not lose any political support. Now Trump’s lawyers are arguing that the president could get away with it legally, too — at least while he’s in office. The Justice …
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Charli XCX-formed band Nasty Cherry are the subject of a new Netflix documentary calledI’m With the Band: Nasty Cherry. The series will debut on November 15th. During a show at NYC’s Terminal 5 Monday, Charli XCX airdropped a Notes App letter to her fans in the audience. “I wanted to …
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