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Is billionaire Nike founder Phil Knight trying to buy a Republican governor? If that question sounds outlandish, so are the facts. Knight has directly given the campaign of Oregon gubernatorial candidate Knute Buehler $2.5 million dollars. Knight has also given $1 million to the Republican Governors’ Association, which steered nearly …

UPDATE: Jayme Closs, who has been missing since October 15th, has been found alive,CNNreports. The 13-year-old was discovered to be missing after authorities found her parents had been fatally shot inside their Barron, Wisconsin home. Authorities said Closs was located on Thursday (January 10th) in Gordon, Wisconsin. The sherriff’s office …

For many of us, 2018 was the Year of the Leppard. The hard rock band headlined and sold out Madison Square Garden for the first time, got nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and at long last, made their entire catalog available to stream. Def …

Coldplay trace their charmingly nerdy beginnings, creative struggles and rise to pop superstardom in the first trailer for their upcoming band documentary A Head Full of Dreams. The film, which follows the British quartet over two decades, is out November 16th via Amazon Prime Video. The clip opens with Coldplay …

Lynyrd Skynyrd‘s surviving members cannot prevent the release of the film Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, New York overturned a permanent injunction that previously halted the movie, which depicts …

It’s the end of Better Call Saul Season Four. I recapped the finale, “Winner,” and I spoke with Saul co-creator Peter Gould (who ran the show on his own this year, while Vince Gilligan mostly focused on development) about the season, with full spoilers coming up just as soon as …

Bruce Campbell has played a lifetime’s worth of sleazebags — miserable, self-serving lowlifes who drag everyone else down with them. His latest is Gary, an alcoholic contractor who also goes by “Captain” on Lodge 49. He was introduced on the show last week, chugging spirits from a paper bag and …

“I was always hoping that these recordings were still around because of the feeling that’s in them,” Don Batts, Prince‘s personal recording engineer in the early Eighties, tells Rolling Stone. He’s reflecting on a demo cassette he made with the artist released Friday asPiano & a Microphone 1983, 34 minutes …

This week, the Utah Board of Pardons announced that Wanda Barzee, who aided in kidnapping then-teenager Elizabeth Smart in 2002, will be freed from prison on September 19th. Smart, now a 30-year-old mother of two who works as a child safety advocate, said she was “surprised and disappointed” by the …

Quincy Jones reflects on his remarkable career in the new trailer for the upcoming documentary, Quincy. The trailer is filled with archival footage of Jones performing on stage, working in the studio and palling around with popes, presidents and other musical luminaries. It also teases interviews with artists like Dr. …