Month: February 2024

The family of legendary Beach Boys member Brian Wilson has petitioned to place the musician in a conservatorship in connection with his dementia diagnosis. After media reports emerged about the conservatorship this week, the Wilson family confirmed the legal move on Thursday. The family said the decision came after the death of “Brian’s beloved wife”
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I saw Madame Web for free and I still want my money back. Yes, the new Sony-Marvel comic book movie is as advertised: a sloppy, terribly written mess that would have been considered bad even had it been released in the decade it appears it was made: the mid-90s. Dakota Johnson stars as the confused
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Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny—a fierce critic of Russian president Vladimir Putin—has died at 47, the state prison service announced Friday. “I want Putin and his entire circle to know that they’ll bear responsibility for what they did with our country and my family and my husband,” Yulia Navalnaya, wife of the anti-corruption activist,
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When “Rhapsody in Blue” was first performed at New York City’s Aeolian Concert Hall 100 years ago this month, it was a cultural watershed. Concertgoers gushed. Critics swooned. The work’s composer, 25-year-old George Gershwin—already lauded for his impressive output of jazz gems—was celebrated hither and yon. No less than Vanity Fair gave it a rave,
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