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Update Wed., May 15, 2019: In a tweet, Gov. Kay Ivey said that she has signed HB 314. “Today, I signed into law the Alabama Human Life Protection Act,” she wrote. “To the bill’s many supporters, this legislation stands as a powerful testament to Alabamians’ deeply held belief that every …

When director Dexter Fletcher signed on to make a movie about Elton John, he knew that a traditional docudrama — like Bohemian Rhapsody, say, or Walk the Line — simply wouldn’t fly. “Elton is all about fantasy and imagination and magic,” Fletcher says. “We wanted to use his songs to …

“I’ve got an old friend around here somewhere,” Steve Van Zandt told the crowd near at the end of his set at Asbury Park’s Paramount Theater on Wednesday night. “I don’t know where.” That seemed like a safe bet that Bruce Springsteen was somewhere in the house, but it wasn’t …

Slowly but surely, independent artists are devouring the recorded-music industry. This, at least, is the view from the major labels, who are watching self-releasing or “DIY” acts gobbling up increasing percentages of global market share — to this day, still a primary performance indicator for the likes of Universal Music …

Harrison Ford has paid tribute to Peter Mayhew, who portrayed Chewbacca in the original Star Wars trilogy, following the actor’s death Tuesday at the age of 74. “Peter Mayhew was a kind and gentle man, possessed of great dignity and noble character,” Ford said of the actor in a statement …

Games of Thrones is a product. No matter how omnipresent the book-series-turned-TV-gets, it’s still just something that, by design, appeals to many millions of people. With that comes opportunities to sell some Game of Thronesstuff. Right now, if one was so inclined, they could dunk their Game of Thrones Oreos …

James Corden and Paul Rudd thought they were going to be “the biggest thing that the world of children’s music had ever seen” as the Naptime Boyz, but their unfortunately inappropriate, but hilarious videos got in the way of their dreams in a new Late Late Show skit. In the …

A week ago, every 2020 candidate filed their first-quarter financial reports with the Federal Election Commission. The reports track every dollar a candidate raised and spent, offering the first inside glimpse of the election and how the candidates are stacking up. President Trump, who held his first 2020 campaign rally …

While testifying before the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, Attorney General William Barr said he plans to release the Mueller report to the public “within the week.” Great news, right? Not really. As Barr explained in a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) late last month, the report …

Our country tends to treat sex workers like, for lack of a better term, trash. Because sex work is largely illegal in the United States (the one exception is a handful of counties in Nevada, where prostitution is highly regulated), women who sell sex are often arrested and subject to …