With little fanfare and even less warning, the first Salem album in nearly six years has materialized. Clocking in at nearly two hours and 31 tracks, Red Dragon gathers rare archival recordings that never got an official release alongside some new songs. At least one of those, the record’s title track, seems to feature vocals
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Hayden Panettiere didn’t want to undermine Connie Britton IRL. While her Nashville character Juliette Barnes’ rising country music career threatened that of Connie’s Rayna Jaymes, Hayden was admittedly concerned life would imitate art after her own billing on the series had “gone way up” following the pilot’s success. “My character wasn’t intended to be the
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Cynthia Erivo knows about how popular it was for the internet to dissect her friendship with Wicked costar Ariana Grande last year, something the Tony winner addressed in a Variety cover story published Wednesday (May 27). While reflecting on the whirlwind promotional run of the Wicked films that lasted throughout 2024 and 2025, Erivo addressed
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Hacks contains multitudes; at once it’s agiddy comedy, an unpredictable drama, and an endlessly fruitful sitcom, but more than anything,Hacks is alove story. Across five seasons, the personal and professional relationship of Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and AvaDaniels(Hannah Einbinder) has been the beating heart of the show. So much so, their relationship may just be
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In a talk on the “art of rough drafting,” George Saunders, the Phil Jackson of writing teachers, says he’s learned, through writing and revision, that “there is a mind greater than the one I’m talking to you with right now . . . and it’s smarter than me.” In my coaching sessions, I try to
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Audiobook month is almost here! Every June, audiobook fans around the world celebrate the joy that is listening to our favorite stories. Some of my personal favorite stories are audiobooks performed by their authors. There’s just something special about hearing an author read their own work. In honor of the occasion, here are a few
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Galantis, the longstanding dance project from Swedish producer Christian Karlsson, has found a new home with the Ninja Tune imprint Counter Records. Galantis’ first release on Counter is “Stay Alive,” a breezy and emotive electronic version of José Gonzalez‘s 2013 classic “Stay Alive,” which itself was co-written by Ryan Adams. Out today (May 27), the
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In Valeska Grisebach’s last film, from 2017, aGerman laborer in Bulgaria to work on an infrastructure project explores the hillsides around aBulgarian village on foot and horseback, wandering through arugged landscape populated by wary natives and rowdy outsiders, ataciturn loner facing down his rivals in aseries of masculine standoffs. Though set in the present day,
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Lady Gaga has released a new live project, Mayhem Requiem, via Apple Music. The album, which was recorded during a no-phones-allowed show at Los Angeles’ Wiltern Theatre in January, “reimagines” her 2025 album Mayhem with new arrangements. It also arrives with a concert film that will show at one-night-only screenings in select AMC theaters tonight
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As a follow-up to my recent post about Asian American historical fiction for AAPI Heritage Month in the U.S., I now want to focus on Pacific Island historical fiction. The Pacific Islands comprise three major ethnogeographic groups according to Britannica: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. The term does leave out several significant islands located in the
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Nika King iseuphoricover her HBO show cameo—but not in the way you’d expect. The Euphoriaactress—who plays mom Leslie Bennett to Zendaya‘s Rue Bennett character—couldn’t help but laugh when she realized that her highly-anticipated season three return had been greatly reduced, resulting in an onscreen appearance that lastedmere seconds during the May 17 episode. “I just
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