“When’s it happening?” asks Jonathan (Anson Boon), a teenager getting antsy at a family gathering. His parents, Jennifer (Kate Winslet) and Michael (Rainn Wilson), shoot him a STFU glare. “Soon,” replies his grandmother Lily (Susan Sarandon), entering the living room and smiling at him. The group — along with Jennifer’s …

South Park returns with a special episode, which will focus on the Covid-19 pandemic. Set to air on September 30th via Comedy Central, it’s the first hour-long episode in the series’ 23-year history. The new teaser for the special opens with Stan’s dad Randy Marsh announcing a “Pandemic Special,” which …

Journey frontman Arnel Pineda has teamed up with Taka of the Japanese band One Ok Rock to record a lockdown version of the 1981 Journey classic “Open Arms.” “Good day folks,” Pineda wrote on YouTube, “to honor the legacy of Journey’s Escape album, specifically Neal Schon, Jonathan Cain, Steve Perry, …

WASHINGTON —This summer, with Americans hunkered down at home as the Covid-19 pandemic raged, teams of organizers located in a half-dozen battleground states made thousands of phone calls and put a theory to the test: Can an empathetic, heartfelt conversation persuade a complete stranger to change their mind about how …

A review of this week’s Lovecraft Country, “Strange Case,” coming up just as soon as I finish the Little Orphan Annie radio puzzle… “I enjoyed my entire day, using the only currency that I needed: whiteness.” -Ruby Is whiteness in and of itself a superpower? This is the question asked …

James Blake has released his own version of Frank Ocean’s “Godspeed,” accompanied by a stark music video of Blake performing the cover at his piano. Fans of both artists will know that Blake has some familiarity with the track, as he produced, arranged and played piano on Ocean’s original version …

Phoebe Bridgers swapped out her skeleton suit for a blazer in a performance for NPR‘s Tiny Desk series. With the ongoing pandemic, artists have been performing at home instead of at NPR, but Bridgers’ segment takes place “in” the Oval Office. Standing in front of the green screen, she’s flanked …

Rhett Miller plays diverse selections from the American music catalog — from “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” to “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” — in the latest installment of the Mighty Song Writers web series. The Old 97’s frontman kicks off his 20-minute set with “Big River,” a song …

Nearly 60 years after Ken Kesey created Mildred Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,the heartless asylum nurse will get her origin story inRatched, out September 18th on Netflix. Louise Fletcher famously portrayed the nurse in the 1975 film and now Sarah Paulson stars as a younger version who …

Did anyone ever really know Charles Manson? To his fellow inmates, growing up in the criminal justice system, he was a wannabe musician with a hot temper. To his followers in 1969, he was Charlie, son of man, the loving yet strict leader of a family that adhered to his …