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What Was Up With Susan Sarandon’s Coachella Monologue as an Elder Sabrina Carpenter?

What Was Up With Susan Sarandon’s Coachella Monologue as an Elder Sabrina Carpenter?

Who could’ve guessed that the biggest water-cooler moment from night 1 of Coachella 2026 would not be a musical cameo or a particularly galvanizing...

11.04.2026 6

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Chris Willman

Why the Rehabilitation of Kanye West Says So Much About America

Why the Rehabilitation of Kanye West Says So Much About America

It’s hard not to imagine that, for around 140,000 people over two nights at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium last week, a sort of collective willful...

06.04.2026 6

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Jem Aswad

Chuck Norris Was a Great Action Star — but Politics May Overshadow His Legacy

“You’re nothing but a chickenshit weasel who thrives on the misery of others. And when death calls, you’ll be screaming like a baby.” Chuck...

26.03.2026 20

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William Earl

How I Became a K-Pop Stan, by a Gen-X Alternative Rock Queen

If anyone had told me five years ago that I would be a K-pop stan, I would have snorted with derision and cited my decades of indie-rock cred. I grew...

26.03.2026 20

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Megan frampton

What I Learned About MAGA Men After Responding to Angry Emails About Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show

“Hi William – you are a pole smoking butt pirate. I loved Kid Rock last night and not your gay idle Bad Bunny. Eat Shit.” While the majority...

13.02.2026 750

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William Earl

Bad Bunny Is Redefining Pop Culture and Taking Over the Super Bowl — Will the Grammys Keep Up?

When Harry Styles took home the Grammy for album of the year at the 2023 ceremony, his fellow nominee, Bad Bunny, didn’t think he had been snubbed....

04.10.2025 30

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Thania Garcia

Apple Is Making a Huge Mistake Postponing ‘The Savant’ in Wake of Charlie Kirk Killing

In a shocking decision, Apple TV has postponed the premiere of the Jessica Chastain drama series “The Savant,” offering another chilling example...

25.09.2025 10

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Aramide Tinubu

Robert Redford Remembered: How Hollywood’s Golden Boy Used His Star Power to Boost Indies and Launch the Sundance Film Festival 

Today, the film industry lost not only one of its brightest stars, but also one of its biggest champions: Robert Redford, who was instrumental to two...

18.09.2025 30

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Peter Debruge

Green Touring and Concert Travel Are the Future: Guest Post by Guster Guitarist and Reverb Co-Founder Adam Gardner

Adam Gardner is a guitarist with the long-running rock band Guster and a co-founder of Reverb, a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to creating a more...

10.09.2025 30

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Adam Gardner

There’s Magic in Reliving ‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Sphere, but the AI Technology Saps Dorothy and Friends of Their Humanity

No city on earth feels more like the mythical land of Oz than Las Vegas — with its tacky towers and the hordes of dreamers who make the trek,...

30.08.2025 40

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Peter Debruge

Stephen Colbert’s Kamala Harris Interview Brought Together Two Beleaguered Symbols of Embattled Institutions

To announce that she would not be running for any public office — including governor of California, a race she had already declined to enter in a...

02.08.2025 30

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Alison Herman

The Ticketing Industry Is Broken: States, Not Congress, Must Act Now (Guest Post)

In the op-ed below, Rachel Landy, an assistant professor at Cardozo School of Law specializing in contracts and copyright law, makes a the case for...

30.07.2025 20

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Rachel Landy

Elizabeth Warren on Colbert ‘Late Show’ Cancellation: Is the Paramount Trump Payoff a Bribe?

President Donald Trump and CBS parent company Paramount want you to think that “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” was canceled for “purely...

24.07.2025 30

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Elizabeth Warren

Paramount’s Trump Lawsuit Settlement: Curtain Call for the First Amendment? (Guest Column)

A few weeks before the announcement in the wee hours of July 1 that Paramount Global and CBS were settling a widely derided lawsuit brought by Donald...

04.07.2025 20

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Katie Fallow

Why Artists Must Own Their Data: Guest Post by WME’s Co-Head of Music Kirk M. Sommer

“Data” may be a wonky word but it has become as valuable as gold in the music business, where it often refers to contact information for fans...

25.06.2025 30

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Kirk M. Sommer

Was Someone Trolling Trump by Playing Creedence’s Draft-Dodger-Slamming ‘Fortunate Son’ at His Military Parade? Or Is It Just the Further Death of Irony?

Was the music for Saturday’s military parade in Washington, D.C. covertly programmed by the “No Kings” movement? That’s the question some...

17.06.2025 30

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Chris Willman

Andre 3000 vs. Matthew Shipp: In Defense of Andre’s Untrained Approach to Flute and Piano (Guest Post)

Abiola Oke is a global media strategist and the managing director of ADISA, a global advisory firm focused on entertainment, culture, and brand...

22.05.2025 30

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Abiola Oke

Does Being a Morgan Wallen Fan Make You MAGA? Why the Country Bad Boy’s Music Is Trump-Coded

At a time when so many seemingly innocuous activities — from the type of car you drive to the pillow you sleep on — are loaded with political...

17.05.2025 30

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Jem Aswad

The ‘M3GAN’ ‘Second Screen’ Chatbot Is an Epic Fail — and Offers Another Dire Warning for Our Future

While the rest of the world was in Easter mode, Blumhouse hatched a deliciously blasphemous bit of counterprogramming the horror shingle is calling...

02.05.2025 30

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Peter Debruge

How Streaming Services Can Stay Ahead of the AI and Social Media Disruption Wave (Guest Column)

AI isn’t just changing entertainment — it’s redefining it. Social media platforms have leveraged AI to create hyper-personalized, endlessly...

27.03.2025 20

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China Widener

Gene Hackman Remembered: How the ’70s Acting Legend Left His Mark and Shaped ‘The Conversation’

On the Mount Rushmore of great American actors — specifically those who emerged in the late 1960s and brought a transformative, bone-deep intensity...

01.03.2025 20

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Peter Debruge

Critic’s Notebook: At Berlin, New Talents and Youthful ‘Dreams’ Signal a Fresh Chapter for 75-Year-Old Fest

How far back in the Berlin Film Festival’s 75-year history do you have to go to find an edition as strong as this one? About a quarter-century, I...

25.02.2025 30

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Peter Debruge

Was Chappell Roan’s Grammys Speech Naive or Necessary? Why Both Sides of the Debate Are Right, and Sometimes Not

Late Wednesday evening, an uproar erupted across the music industry over an op-ed published in the Hollywood Reporter, in which Jeff Rabhan (former...

07.02.2025 20

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Jem Aswad

The Grammys Righted Some Glaring Wrongs by Honoring Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar and the Weeknd

Based on purely anecdotal evidence, the common post-show consensus is that the 2025 Grammys were the best in many years on nearly every level: The...

05.02.2025 40

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Jem Aswad