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Night Music

from Brooklyn Vegan 32 videos of Hal Willner’s ’80s series ‘Night Music’ that display his gift for weird, amazing collaborations By Bill Pearis We lost the great Hal Willner yesterday. He was a gifted producer whose greatest skill may have been his ability to bring together disparate talents that you might not think would fit together but turned […]

John Prine Gone – Very Sad

from Rolling Stone John Prine, One of America’s Greatest Songwriters, Dead at 73 Grammy-winning singer who combined literary genius with a common touch succumbs to coronavirus complications By STEPHEN L. BETTS & PATRICK DOYLE John Prine, who for five decades wrote rich, plain-spoken songs that chronicled the struggles and stories of everyday working people and […]

Rodeo Prince

from The New York Times Richard Prince: This Ain’t No Retrospective, It’s a Rodeo A new book looks at the figure of the American cowboy through the outlaw lens of Mr. Prince, an artist known for his sly borrowings. By Randy Kennedy Photography and the mythos of the American cowboy have been lassoed together almost from […]

Bill Withers Gone

from PASTE Legendary Soul Singer Bill Withers Dead at 81 By Lizzie Manno Legendary soul singer/songwriter Bill Withers died on Monday (March 30) due to heart complications, per a statement provided to the Associated Press. He was best known for hits like “Lean On Me,” “Ain’t No Sunshine,” “Use Me,” “Lovely Day” and more. Withers was a three-time […]

Daddy @ 89

from The Daily Mail ‘When it comes to having kids, I don’t see any difference between being 89 and 29’: Bernie Ecclestone tells of delight at being a father again with wife Fabiana Flosi, 44, just three months short of his 90th birthday By KATIE WESTON & JAMES FIELDING The pair, who tied the knot in […]

Hockney’s COVID Respite

from BBC David Hockney shares exclusive art from Normandy, as ‘a respite from the news’ By Will Gompertz David Hockney is in lockdown at his house in Normandy with his dog Ruby and two of his long-standing assistants, JP and Jonathan.  He is in the garden most days, drawing the spring awakening on his iPad. […]

M*A*S*H @ 50

from OBSERVER 50 Years Later, Robert Altman’s ‘MASH’ Is Still Unforgettable By Brian Fairbanks You remember the 4077th? Hawkeye, Radar, Trapper John, Henry and Hot Lips? These days, mentioning MASH gets you an almost uniform response: “Binged it on Netflix.” Yet it’s the movie, and not the long-running TV series that it spawned, that’s arguably more culturally significant. MASH was […]

Big Hair Coming Back

from CBS New York Coronavirus Pandemic Upends Men’s Grooming Routines: Expert Predicts Long Hair, Beards Back In Style By Summer (CBS Local) — You’re overdue for a haircut, but you just realized your local barbershop is one of the many businesses closed stop the spread of COVID-19. You’re not alone. It doesn’t appear the Centers for […]

Marriage Going Away

from AEON Is marriage over? Marriage is practised in every society yet is in steep decline globally. Is this it for longterm intimate relationships? Edited by Sam Dresser At 17, John Humphrey Noyes thought a lot about women. An awkward teenager with a gangly neck and slouching shoulders, he fretted over how good looks were the […]

COVID Makes The Earth Move

from Nature Coronavirus lockdowns have changed the way Earth moves A reduction in seismic noise because of changes in human activity is a boon for geoscientists. by Elizabeth Gibney The coronavirus pandemic has brought chaos to lives and economies around the world. But efforts to curb the spread of the virus might mean that the […]