According to Mary Ramos, Quentin Tarantino’s longtime music supervisor, the process for selecting songs for one of his films starts in a record store—which happens to be in his Hollywood home. What Ramos describes as Tarantino’s “record room” looks like a vinyl boutique, with LPs separated into bins labeled by …
Read More »Avenatti, Wohl and the Krassensteins Prove Political Media Is a Hucksters' Paradise
From the depths of scandal, Michael Avenatti gave an interview to Vanity Fair. He cried four times and said: “Some would argue at this point that I flew too close to the sun. As I sit here today, yes, absolutely, I know I did. No question. Icarus.” Michael Avenatti isn’t …
Read More »Trump's Immigration Strategy Is Dumber and Crueler Than Anyone Realizes
President Trump’s wheel of preoccupations spun back around to the border on Thursday, when he took to the White House Rose Garden to announce his administration’s new plan to overhaul federal immigration law. Trump called the proposal “a fair, modern and lawful system of immigration” that would be based primarily …
Read More »Beyonce's 'Homecoming' Documentary: 5 Things We Learned
Beyoncé’s headlining set at Coachella in 2018 was a master class in pop performance: an instantly iconic celebration of blackness, HBCUs and her own historic 22-year career. She was originally slated to headline in 2017 following her Formation World Tour, but a surprise pregnancy — with twins, nonetheless — delayed …
Read More »Rick Reilly on How Trump Cheated a Teenage Boy to Win a Golf Championship
Last month, Golf.com reported that President Trump’s 2018 club championship at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, may not have been totally legitimate. Though a plaque at the club lists the president as the victor, the championship was actually won by a hedge fund manager named …
Read More »Flashback: The Eagles Perform a Mellow 'Peaceful Easy Feeling' in 1974
The first time Glenn Frey heard “Peaceful Easy Feeling” was at Jackson Browne’s house in Echo Park. “He said he had a new band that had only been together for eight days,” songwriter Jack Tempchin recalled. “He wanted to know if I’d mind if they worked it up.” The Eagles …
Read More »Neil Young Pays Tribute to Pegi Young With 'Harvest Moon' Song
Neil Young paid tribute to his ex-wife, collaborator and Bridge School co-founder Pegi Young in a post on the rocker’s Archives site. “Thanks Pegi, for being such a wonderful mother to our children,” Neil wrote Saturday, his first public comments since Pegi’s death. “You live inside of them and the …
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