Maya Rudolph Was “Humiliated” During David Letterman Interview

Maya Rudolph at the 2011 Creative Arts Emmys

Even though she was a veteran at performing on live TV once a week, Saturday Night Live star Maya Rudolph wasn’t always comfortable with appearing on television in other contexts. By now, she’s grown more […]

Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio: Besties Since The ’80s

(L-R):Tobey Maguire, Baz Luhrmann, Carey Mulligan, and Leonardo DiCaprio posing at Cannes film festival

Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio are best friends whose relationship spans longer than 30 years. The Spider-Man star and the Titanic heartthrob have partied together and bonded over their challenging upbringings and high-flying careers in […]

The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan review – an enlightening listen-along | Music books

The Clash (l-r: Mick Jones, Joe Strummer, Paul Simonon) performing in 1981.

In 1993, Bob Dylan released World Gone Wrong, an album of cover versions of what might be called pre-modern songs by some of the early blues and folk performers that he revered. Dylan’s sleeve notes […]

Get stuffed: TV, art, books and more devoted to food, glorious food | Culture

Ramen obsessive Ivan Orkin.

Music Between Bonita Applebum, Butter and the Jam, hip-hop titans A Tribe Called Quest are not shy about paying gastronomic homage. On Ham’n’Eggs, floating like croutons over a languid beat-soup, Q-Tip and Phife Dawg tie […]

Jeremy Greenspan of Junior Boys’ listening diary: ‘I’ve played Steely Dan once a day since I was 12’ | Music

Pumpkin harvest season in Stardew Valley.

20 October I’ve listened to Kid Charlemagne by Steely Dan about once a day, every day since I was 12. But in keeping track of my listening, I admit that I was pleasantly surprised by […]

The battle for Highgate: George Michael’s old house at centre of face off over ‘resort for super-rich’ | London

Tributes to George Michael in Highgate, north London, in 2018, with his former house in the background.

Fan worship takes many forms. When George Michael died on Christmas Day 2016, his more ardent devotees were moved to lay tributes in a small fenced green opposite his house in Highgate, the north London […]

The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy review – a deep dive into the abyss | Cormac McCarthy

Picador The Passenger: Cormac McCarthy Hardcover – 25 Oct. 2022

It’s the depth of the darkness that spooks Bobby Western, the haunted man at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s extraordinary new novel. Western works as a salvage diver in the Mexican Gulf, tending to sunken […]

How low can you go? Singer Iestyn Davies’s melancholic playlist | Classical music

Lutenist Thomas Dunford.

Music is “a sovereign remedy against despair and melancholy, and will drive away the devil himself”, wrote Robert Burton in The Anatomy of Melancholy, first published in 1621. Yet music is not simply a cure […]

We’ve Struck Irony! Oil Heiress Aileen Getty Is A Founding Donor Of A Climate Fighting Organization Funding The “Just Stop Oil” Protestors

We've Struck Irony! Oil Heiress Aileen Getty Is A Founding Donor Of A Climate Fighting Organization Funding The "Just Stop Oil" Protestors

Just because you’re an heir to an oil industry fortune doesn’t mean you necessarily approve of the family business. Take Aileen Getty, for example: heiress to the famous Getty family fortune, she’s donated a reported […]

‘The truth is they’re vulnerable’: inside America’s mobile home crisis | Documentary films

Christine Cray-Rudine paid $54,000 for her mobile home at Santiago Villa mobile home park, next door to Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA. It’s the first time in her life she’s owned her own home. She has furnished it with thrift store finds and second-hand rescues. She relies on Social Security to pay her bills.

Urgent as it may be, the affordable housing crisis is a term that can make one’s eyes glaze over. News coverage of how Americans who don’t belong to the 1% are being squeezed out of […]

Sacheen Littlefeather faked Native American ancestry say family | Movies

Littlefeather on stage at an event at Ampas in 2022.

Sacheen Littlefeather, the activist who famously stood in for Marlon Brando to refuse the best actor Oscar in 1973, faked Native American ancestry, her family have said. In an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, […]

Bono Apologizes For Putting That U2 Album On Everyone’s iPhones

Bono Apologizes For Putting That U2 Album On Everyones iPhones

Getty Image Remember U2’s 2014 album Songs of Innocence? If you owned an iPad or iPhone back around the time that the album was released you will never forget it. Not because it was one […]

Black Adam: Dwayne Johnson’s new kind of superhero and a DC reset – discuss with spoilers | Movies

No place for real-world logic … Black Adam.

Dwayne Johnson is here to claim his throne as Hollywood’s greatest action hero, and Black Adam seems like the perfect vehicle. Powered by ancient Egyptian gods (the comic books tell us he has the stamina […]