A Florida man who claimed in a TV interview to have helped cremate Natalee Holloway’s remains back in 2010 was fatally stabbed with his own knife during an attempted kidnapping Wednesday. John Christopher Ludwick was stabbed in North Port, Florida, after trying to kidnap a woman as she was exiting …
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Editor’s Note: On Thursday night,ProPublica retracted the portion of their storythat stated that Gina Haspel, Trump’s pick to head the CIA, was head of the black site in Thailand during the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah. According to the New York Times,she arrived in October 2002. Last year, ProPublica reporter Raymond …
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There are few figures in country music as influential and perhaps as underappreciated in modern culture as Doug Sahm, who changed the climate of the genre when he fused psychedelic San Francisco rock and gritty soul into his breed of Texas music with his band, Sir Douglas Quintet. Now, as …
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It all began with David Bowie. Candy-colored hair. A lightning bolt across his cream-painted face. A mysterious backstory that he was a “messenger from Mars.” It was February 1973, and Bowie had come to New York to promote The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars …
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Bleachers‘ Jack Antonoff appeared on TheTonight Show Thursday speaking about writingTaylor Swift’s “New Year’s Day”and the uncertainty of the songwriting process. “We wrote that song in a second, because we didn’t plan to write it. If you plan to write like a ballad or something like that, you always get …
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Grammy nominated singer-songwriter James Bay is gearing up for hisSaturday Night Live debut with a second new song from his forthcoming album,Electric Light. The uptempo, rock-oriented “Pink Lemonade” follows previously released single “Wild Love.”Electric Light comes out May 18th. While “Wild Love” was more contemplative, “Pink Lemonade” has a brisk, …
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Sade released a beatific acoustic ballad titled “Flower of the Universe,” the group’s first new release since 2011. They recorded the track for the forthcoming soundtrack to A Wrinkle in Time, which arrives March 9th. Anyone familiar with Sade‘s work, especially the Lover’s Rock album, will recognize the ingredients in …
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A month off didSaturday Night Live good, as the show returned with renewed energy, a slew of topics to discuss, and one of the best top-to-bottom episodes of the season. Charles Barkley stumbled through his monologue, but quickly recovered to add something to every sketch in which he appeared. While …
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This Sunday, we– along with millions of other viewers around the globe – will be perched in front of our TVs and tuning in to watch the 90th Academy Awards. And like the legion of other film fanatics and pop-culture connoisseurs who’ll be hanging on host Jimmy Kimmel‘s every snarky …
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Throughout his career, songwriter John Prine has not only had his remarkable catalog of songs covered by other artists, he has also put his own spin on songs by his influences and peers. The latest in the latter category is Prine’s delicate take on a song Johnny Cash first recorded …
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