The traditional multicamera sitcom, shot on a stage in front of an enthusiastic studio audience, looks much easier to make than it actually is. The format is close to 70 years old, dating back to I Love Lucy, but its roots go back much further than that, to the earliest …
Read More »'Drag Race' Star Aja Is Ready to Be Your New Trap Queen
“I’m a Capricorn so I don’t have dreams,” Aja says. It’s a Saturday night, and the nonbinary rapper is sitting behind the board of a studio at Brewery Recording in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, playing finished cuts and just-recorded demos of their new album in a grape-purple turtleneck and matching fitted cap. …
Read More »Brandi Carlile's 'Girls' Festival: Eighties Covers, Duets and Karaoke
Brandi Carlile‘s inaugural Girls Just Wanna Weekend wrapped up this week in the Riviera Maya, Mexico. Curated by the Washington state native, the festival was far from a simple string of concerts. Carlile, whose By the Way, I Forgive You album scored her six nominations at this Sunday’s Grammy Awards, …
Read More »Al Green Plots First Tour in Seven Years
Soul legend Al Green has announced a short tour that marks his first run of shows in seven years. The five-date tour kicks off April 4th at the Bass Concert Hall in Austin, Texas. Green will then perform in Irving, Texas, New Orleans, Louisiana – where he’ll take the stage …
Read More »Watch Bad Rams Fans Celebrate Super Bowl 'Win' on 'Kimmel'
The “Lie Witness News” team at Jimmy Kimmel Live tracked down some inattentive Los Angeles Rams fans Monday to get their reaction to the team’s Super Bowl “victory.” While the Rams lost to the New England Patriots 13 – 3, several people still had vivid memories of where they were …
Read More »Long Live Natasha Lyonne
To many people who watched it over the weekend, Netflix’s Russian Doll — about a video game designer who keeps dying while celebrating her 36th birthday only to be repeatedly reborn at the start of the party — will play like science fiction. To the show’s co-creator and star,Orange Is …
Read More »How Does Trump Maintain His Orange Glow?
The biggest mystery in Washington—second only to how the Mueller probe will end—is how President Donald Trump manages to maintain his bright fluorescent orange glow regardless of the season. Thankfully, theNew York Timesdug in on this pressing question, interviewing current and former White House staffers in an attempt to get …
Read More »Illinois Begins Radical New Program to Swap Opioids for Pot
In August, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed the Alternative to Opioids Bill, making it possible for patients in the state who had been prescribed opioids to opt for medical marijuana instead. The Opioid Alternative Pilot Program (OAPP), which is the first of its kind in the U.S., officially began accepting …
Read More »'Abducted in Plain Sight': Doc Is Stranger-Than-Fiction Tale of 1970s Kidnapping
The true crime documentary, Abducted in Plain Sight,which recently appeared on Netflix, initially seems to be a nightmarish but otherwise unremarkable suburban kidnapping story. Set in the 1970s, Robert and Mary Ann Broberg and their three young daughters, Jan, Karen and Susan, are a nice Mormon family from Pocatello, Idaho, …
Read More »Wynonna Releases Cover of 'Feeling Good,' Talks Creative Renaissance
There’s a massive, mostly empty room at the center of Wynonna Judd’s house with a large picture window that looks out across her farm south of Nashville. The view from the only chair in the room, which Wynonna calls her “prayer chair,” is a serene pasture and pond. The high, …
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