Sporting a trademark purple bandana, Bruce Springsteen’s guitarist Steven Van Zandt showed up at the historic King Eddy on Friday afternoon to talk about arts in education, one day before Springsteen and his iconic E Street Band were set to rock the Saddledome for the first time since 2003. He was joined by longtime E Street Band...
Near the end of Chris Smith’s new documentary, the co-founders of Devo are asked a pointed question during a television interview in the 1980s: Are you guys serious? At this point in their career, the band had already scaled the charts with the misunderstood pop song Whip It, had become pioneering video stars on MTV...
It was during the pandemic when Calgary singer-songwriter Maclayne decided she needed less direction in her life. With most of the world locked down, it was perhaps counter-intuitive to what many were looking for at the time. But Maclayne was feeling burned out before COVID-19 hit. In December 2020, she decided to quit her job,...
Investigators from various federal agencies launched an “interagency operation” on Monday at the troubled lockup in New York City where Sean “Diddy” Combs is being held. The investigators from the Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department’s inspector general’s office and other law enforcement agencies had descended on the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on Monday,...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Teri Garr, the quirky comedy actor who rose from background dancer in Elvis Presley movies to co-star of such favorites as “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” has died. She was 79. Garr died Tuesday of multiple sclerosis “surrounded by family and friends,” said publicist Heidi Schaeffer. Garr battled other health problems in...
“I’m not here as a celebrity, I’m not here as a politician. I’m here as a mother,” Beyoncé said at a campaign rally for Kamala Harris. “A mother who cares deeply about the world my children and all of our children live in, a world where we have the freedom to control our bodies, a...
NEW YORK (AP) — “Venom: The Last Dance” showed less bite than expected at the box office, collecting $51 million in its opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, significantly down from the alien symbiote franchise’s previous entries. Projections for the third “Venom” film from Sony Pictures had been closer to $65 million. More concerning,...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a founding member of the Grateful Dead, died Friday at age 84. Lesh’s death was announced on his Instagram account. Lesh was the oldest and one of the longest...
CLEVELAND (AP) — The Rock & Roll Hall Fame induction ceremony on Saturday night promises to be starry, jamming — and bittersweet. So many of the honorees this time have been lost. Of the seven original members of Kool & the Gang, there is only one, Robert “Kool” Bell. There will be no living members...
As Taylor Swift prepares to close out her Eras Tour era in Canada, fans desperate to see the pop star perform live are vulnerable to scams. The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre has received 140 reports of fraudulent Swift tickets this year, most of which came from people who were scammed out of money. “Once you’ve sent...