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Hear ‘Waitress’ Star Jessie Mueller’s Top 10 Sara Bareilles Tracks
Sara Bareilles first became aware of Jessie Mueller when she saw her on opening night of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, in which the actress played iconic King. “I left just so moved by her performance that I went back to the creative team of Waitress and said, ‘You guys have to see this woman,'”…

The Last Word: Louis C.K. on Fatherhood, Trump, Chris Rock’s Advice
Louis C.K. kicked off his latest summer tour on May 17th, which will see the stand-up traveling throughout the U.S. and Europe before ending with a three-night run at Madison Square Garden on September 8th, 12th and 15th. The comedian recently spoke to Rolling Stone about fatherhood, ‘The Catcher in…

Stewart Brand Recalls First ‘Spacewar’ Video Game Tournament
The first video game tournament was held on October 19th, 1972. Competitors gathered at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab in Los Altos, California to do battle in the sci-fi rocket combat game Spacewar. At the time, the lab was one of the only a handful of locales in the world…

Stephen King, Cheryl Strayed Sign Open Letter Condemning Donald Trump
Stephen King, Wild author Cheryl Strayed, Junot Diaz, Michael Chabon and Jennifer Egan are among the 400 writers who have lent their name to an online letter condemning Donald Trump. In “An Open Letter to the American People” on Lit Hub, the authors write that they “oppose, unequivocally, the candidacy…

Alex Pettyfer Talks Founding Publishing Company, Playing Elvis’ Buddy
At age 26, actor-model Alex Pettyfer has built a high-profile resumé (Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Magic Mike). The multi-talented Brit admits he’s “always wanted to be in control.” Now he’s accomplishing that goal with his newly founded Upturn Publishing, an independent, L.A.-based publisher that aims to spotlight undiscovered writing talent. Pettyfer…

‘Uncharted 4’ Director Neil Druckmann on Nathan Drake, Sexism in Games
Video games have been synonymous with a series of unlikely frontmen over the past 40 years, including a fireball-hurling plumber with probable furry tendencies. In the public mind – meaning, inside the empty noggin of whoever puts together your local TV news report – video games have equaled Mario, Pac-Man, Mortal Kombat,…

Why Hillary Clinton’s Church Is Facing a Major LGBT Schism
On May 10th, more than 100 clergypersons in the United Methodist Church came out of the closet. They did so at great personal risk, knowing that the official doctrine of the UMC says they were in active disobedience of the word of God. Such action is punishable by firing, which…

Walt Disney-Owned Mickey Mouse Doll, Animator’s Desk Up for Auction
Walt Disney’s hand-signed Mickey Mouse doll and personal animator’s desk are two highlights of a massive Disney auction expected to yield $2 million to $3 million. The “Collecting Disney” sale, scheduled for June 18th at Los Angeles’ Van Eaton Galleries, will feature over 700 lots of memorabilia from the Disney archives, Reuters reports. “This…

Will Virtual Reality Change Your Life?
For decades, virtual reality has failed to deliver on its great promise. But on March 28th, Oculus Rift, a breakthrough VR system, debuted – finally heralding the arrival of a technology seemingly pulled from a sci-fi future. On a recent spring morning, in a soundproof studio on the San Mateo,…

Dave Matthews Band Pledge Charlotte Gig Proceeds to Equality Groups
After the passing of North Carolina’s controversial House Bill 2, commonly known as the “Bathroom Bill,” many musicians protested by canceling scheduled concerts in the state. In a statement, Dave Matthews Band said they will carry forward with their May 27th gig at Charlotte’s PNC Music Pavilion, but donate a portion of proceeds…

Ricky Gervais: Donald Trump ‘Would Be the Funniest President’
When Donald Trump announced that he would be running for president, Ricky Gervais found it instantly amusing. “I thought, ‘This is a man who desperately wants to be famous and loved and he’s willing to spend half his fortune on running for president to become even more famous,'” the English comic tells…

The Curse of the Ramones
Onstage, they were the personification of unity – even family. The four men dressed the same –in leather motorcycle jackets, weathered jeans, sneakers – had the same dark hair color, shared the same last name. They seemed to think the same thoughts and breathe the same energy. They often didn’t…

Britney Spears on Staying True to Herself, ‘Cute’ New Mobile Game
With a new album in the works and a Las Vegas residency underway, Britney Spears has been keeping a busy schedule so far this year. Her latest venture is a mobile game, Britney Spears: American Dream, in which players create a pop-singer character who competes to make it onto the…

Robin Wright Rightly Demands and Gets Equal Pay for ‘House of Cards’
Robin Wright is now being paid the same amount as Kevin Spacey, her costar on Netflix’s House of Cards. But it took her asking for it and the actress negotiated her salary in a way that would make her House of Cards’ character, Claire Underwood, proud. Both actors also serve…

Oscar Isaac: The Internet’s Boyfriend Becomes a Leading Man
Oscar Isaac shuts his eyes tight, guitar in hand, and the world goes away. Which is convenient, because the world keeps presenting him with unwelcome facts, here in his 37th year: Turns out that if you’re a dreamily handsome actor who delivers fierce, incandescent, once-in-a-generation performances worthy of Pacino and…

Essential Prince: A Guide to Best, Deepest and Most Overlooked Albums
Prince’s artistry spanned six decades, multiple genres and several hundred songs under his own name and pseudonyms. Even for a hardcore fan, his discography is one of the most daunting of any modern pop star. Here we present 16 albums that are essential to any collection. Must-Haves  Dirty Mind (1980)For his third…

Melania Trump on Michael Jackson, Why Trump Isn’t Hitler
Melania Trump, wife of the presumptive Republican nominee, has been mostly absent on the campaign trail so far – causing many to regard her as aloof. Eager to learn more about the former model and glamorous Slovenian immigrant as the next First Lady of the United States, media outlets have clamored for…

10 Things We Learned From Moby’s Hedonistic Memoir About Early DJ Years
The majority of memoirs from successful musicians emphasize the famous years – this is why people buy the book, after all – and the period after the singer’s musical relevance has begun to fade, when he/she battles with old bandmates, engages in philanthropic efforts, and maybe gets married a couple…

J.K. Rowling: ‘I Find Almost Everything That Donald Trump Says Objectionable’
J.K. Rowling delivered a powerful speech at the 2016 PEN Literary Awards Gala Monday where the Harry Potter author condemned Donald Trump yet defended the mogul’s right to speak freely. “I find almost everything that Mr. Trump says objectionable,” Rowling said. “I consider him offensive and bigoted. But he has my full support…

Lena Dunham Publishes Surprise Book of Diary Entries
Lena Dunham has published a new book, Is It Evil Not to Be Sure?, a collection of the writer/director/actor’s diary entries from the mid-2000s that will be benefit the nonprofit Girls Write Now. Dunham said she rediscovered her journals while poking around an old hard drive as she recovered from surgery, she told Buzzfeed. The book compiles…

Robert De Niro on Equality, North Carolina: ‘The Struggle Continues’
GLAAD, the world’s leading LGBT media advocacy organization, held its 27th annual Media Awards on Saturday. This year’s ceremony held more significance in light of the controversial House Bill 2 legislation in North Carolina, which many view compromises LBGT rights.  “Remember oppressive laws like the ones in North Carolina,” Robert De Niro said accepting…

Louis C.K. to Perform All New Material on Stand-Up Tour
Louis C.K. has mapped out a summer’s worth of tour dates where the comedian promises to showcase all new stand-up material. “It’s new jokes and I think I’m better at comedy right now than I’ve been for a while and I’m going to dedicate the year to just doing great live shows,”…

Watch Barack Obama, Macklemore Discuss Opioid Addiction
President Barack Obama and Macklemore teamed up for a White House weekly address where the pair discussed one of the issues plaguing the nation at an alarming rate: Opioid addiction. “Deaths from opioid overdoses have tripled since 2000. A lot of time, they’re from legal drugs prescribed from a doctor, so addiction doesn’t…

Hear Run the Jewels Soundtrack Trailer for Marvel ‘Black Panther’ Comic
Run the Jewels are helping launch new Marvel comic series Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet with their frenetic tune “Oh My Darling (Don’t Cry).” The song soundtracks the first in a series of video trailers. According to Billboard, Marvel will promote the project with new episodes each month, featuring music…

7 Wildest Transformational Festivals
In 1990 the founders of Burning Man drew a line on the ground of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert and told each other, “On the other side of this line, everything will be different.” With its artful chaos and core principles of participation, civic responsibility, radical inclusion and self-reliance, Burning Man…

Inside the Greatest X-Rated Animated Film You’ve Never Heard Of
At the 1973 Berlin Film Festival, overenthusiastic parents, eager to take their kids to a “family-friendly” animated film, crowded into a German theater for a recently released Japanese anime film with an unusual title: Belladonna of Sadness. They expected something that might distract their kids for 90 minutes, a sort…

Ronan Farrow Pens Op-Ed Slamming Woody Allen, Media
Ronan Farrow, the estranged son of Woody Allen, has penned an op-ed slamming both his filmmaker father as well as the media for not devoting as much press to the director’s alleged sexual abuse as they do to his new films. Farrow’s critical piece arrives on the same day that…

Michael Brown’s Mother on ‘Regal’ Cameo in Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’
One of the most poignant chapters of Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade paid tribute to Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner who were killed by U.S. police. Beyonce’s direction was that the mothers of these men appear “regal,” Lezley McSpadden, the mother of Michael Brown, told SiriusXM.  “I tried to hold it together, but anytime I’m…

Wavy Gravy: ‘I’m Supporting Anything But Trump’
Wavy Gravy will forever be associated with Woodstock, but from the moment you start talking with the clown prince of the counterculture, the former Hugh Romney makes it clear he isn’t a relic from the ’60s. “Did you like my haiku?” he asks, referring to one he’s just penned in…

‘Ghostbusters’: Cross the Streams at Virtual Reality Experience
As Ghostbusters fans eagerly anticipate director Paul Feig’s female-fronted reboot of the film franchise that stars Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, it seems it’s time to get those proton packs ready in reality before the movie opens in cinemas on July 15th.  Sony Pictures commissioned the Void to create…

Summer 2016’s 30 Must-See Music Festivals
No matter what you like or where you live, this summer almost certainly has a festival for you. Below are the 30 American summer festivals we’re most excited about.

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