Month: June 2025

My Morning Jacket are expanding their summer and fall North American tour with five new shows featuring a complete performance of their 2005 album Z, in honor of the latter’s 20th anniversary. The dates will be tacked onto previously announced stands in Denver (Aug. 15), Los Angeles (Aug. 19), Brooklyn, N.Y. (Oct. 16), Chicago (Oct.
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The United States in the mid-1800s boiled with conflict and promise. The bloody Civil War raged. A ruminating President sat in the White House. William Gould Raymond (“W.G.”) was as complicated as the times. His life a mosaic of faith, addiction, health setbacks, his sprawling family, service as a Union Army officer, and then as
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Is the Decline of Reading Causing Political Dysfunction? Americans are reading less and scrolling more. Social media erodes critical thinking skills and contributes to polarization. As book people, it can be tempting to think everything
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Actor Brandon Flynn, best known for his roles in 13 Reasons Why, True Detective, and Manhunt, has been cast as a closeted James Dean in Willie & Jimmy Dean, based on William Bast’s memoir “Surviving James Dean.” The memoir recounts Bast’s first meeting with Dean at UCLA, where the two became roommates and, eventually, secret lovers during the early years of
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In the last season of The Bear, brilliant but troubled Chicago chef Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) was stressing about the opening of his new fine-dining restaurant, dealing with past family trauma, and struggling to embrace a romantic relationship due to his hangups about intimacy and vulnerability. Carmy’s creative partner/confidant/friend Syd (Ayo Edebiri) was debating whether
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“It’s pronounced Fronkensteen!” A comedy series based on the Mel Brooks classic 1974 film Young Frankenstein, titled “Very Young Frankenstein,” is nearing a pilot order from FX, Deadline reports today. While Brooks himself is said to have given the series his blessing and will executive produce, it’s the talent attached that also has our attention. The new
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Taylor Swift gave her first public performance since the fall 2024 conclusion of her Eras Tour last night (June 24) at Nashville’s 1,200-capacity Brooklyn Bowl, as she hopped onstage during a Kane Brown-led benefit for an impromptu version of her hit “Shake It Off.” See fan-shot footage below. Last night’s event, Tight Ends & Friends,
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We independently evaluate all recommended products and services. Any products or services put forward appear in no particular order. if you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Fragrance should be discovered, not announced. It should enhance your presence rather than dominating a room, creating intrigue rather than assault. Yet many men unknowingly
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Anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA bigots are spewing Islamophobia after the apparent win of New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary by State Assembly member Zohran Mamdani, a self-described Democratic socialist who, if elected in November, would become the city’s first-ever Muslim, Asian, and African-born mayor. “.@ZohranKMamdani hasn’t even been a US citizen for 10 years. He is literally supported by terrorists.
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In real time, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX)eviscerated a Republican Congressman’s claim that the president’s approval rating is “soaring.” During a House DOGE Subcommittee hearing chaired by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Crocket slammed MAGA lawmakers for “abdicating their duties and abdicating the very people that put them into office.” Related She blasted Republicans for allowing
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The prosecution rested Tuesday at Sean “Diddy” Combs ’ sex trafficking trial, capping a more than six-week-long presentation of evidence against the hip-hop maven that confronted him with former employees and two former girlfriends who expressed regret at his treatment of them over the past two decades. After the prosecution rested, Combs’ lawyers asked U.S. District Judge
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