Taylor Swift got an unexpected surprise Thursday night on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon when the host asked if she had recently gotten Lasik eye surgery. When Swift nodded yes, clearly dreading what was to come, Fallon revealed that he had obtained a home video from Swift’s mother of the …
Read More »Joni Mitchell Makes Rare Public Appearance at the 'Almost Famous' Musical Premiere
Joni Mitchell has rarely appeared in public since battling health issues in 2015, but in the last year she’s begun venturing out yet again. Recently, she’s attendedher peers’ concerts, including shows featuring James Taylor andDebbie Harry — and her own star-studded 75th birthday tribute concert. This past Friday, she attended …
Read More »Warren Tops Biden in New National Poll
Elizabeth Warren topped Joe Biden in a new national poll released Wednesday, another sign the senator has all but erased her deficit to the former frontrunner of the 2020 Democratic primary. Warren got 27 percent of the vote among Democratic voters in the new Quinnipiac University poll, topping Biden’s 25 …
Read More »Upsets and Upstarts Keep Emmys Ceremony Lively
Much of the pre-scripted material on Sunday night’s Emmys telecast was devoted to the idea that the small screen has no limits to exactly what it can show, or be. As former Emmy winner Bryan Cranston put it, at the end of a monologue that began with talk of Neil …
Read More »Walmart Officially Bans E-Cigarettes
In the midst of a nationwide vaping-related illness epidemic that has resulted in at least eight deaths, Walmart has decided not to stop selling e-cigarettes, the company announced Friday. In a statement, the company said that the lack of information regarding the health risks of e-cigarettes, as well as the …
Read More »'Country Music' Review: Ken Burns' Epic, Essential Look at an American Artform
Country Music, Ken Burns‘ PBS docuseries on a musical journey that spans from hollers to honkytonks to hit parades, is a whole lotta things. It’s long, which is a given when you consider the authorship — clocking in at a shade over 16 hours, this eight-episode megillah’s running time falls …
Read More »Green Day Detail Their Soulful New Album, Stadium Tour With Weezer and Fall Out Boy
“I knew I wanted to do something different,” says Billie Joe Armstrong. He’s talking about his search for a new sound after 2016’s Revolution Radio, the album where Green Day got back on their feet after the messiest period of their career. Armstrong wanted to find a way to incorporate …
Read More »Toronto 2019: 'Joker' and the Tears of an Intellectual-Property Clown
“Is it just me or is getting crazier out there?” It’s a legitimate question that Arthur Fleck, a troubled clown-for-hire, asks the social worker assigned to his case. Garbage spills out on to the avenues and alleyways of the urban wasteland he lives in. The news is filled with stories …
Read More »This Week in Latin Music: Hispanic Artists Score at the VMAs, 'Thotiana' Remix, New Draco Rosa
MTV made a noble attempt at Latinx inclusion at this year’s VMAs; and “Thotiana,” the hit song by Blueface, made her way to Colombia and came back “Fariana.” In case you missed it, here are some highlights from this week in Latin music. Hispanic Artists Win Big at the VMAs …
Read More »How MTV's 'Are You The One?' Is Changing Dating Shows
Over the last eight years, Are You the One? executive producer Rob LaPlante has conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews with eager twentysomethings who hope to be cast on the MTV reality dating show. For anyone not familiar, the series asks young people who admit they “suck at dating” (as they …
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