A review of this week’s Better Call Saul, “Dedicado a Max,” coming up just as soon as I make my own cell phone charger… “It seems to me that you are at a crossroads.” —Gus Throughout the run of Better Call Saul, Kim Wexler and Mike Ehrmantraut have represented two …
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“I’m a boring 17-year-old white girl,” Syd tells us early in Netflix‘s new I Am Not Okay With This, before adding, “I’m not special, is what I’m trying to say.” But a few episodes later, she warns us, and herself: “If I rage, bad things happen.” Rage is a threat …
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Morrissey croons some kindly encouragement in his new song, “Knockabout World,” from his upcoming album, I Am Not a Dog on a Chain, out March 20th via BMG. The song opens with a punchy New Wave groove but builds into a lush, orchestral pop tune replete with strings, horns, and …
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Former California Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher says he spoke with Julian Assange about getting the WikiLeaks founder a pardon from President Trump. Rohrabacher on Thursday confirmed a recent report from the Guardian that Assange’s lawyers told a court in London that the former congressman made the offer in 2017. Assange, …
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What does James Bond sound like in 2020? Judging by “No Time to Die,” Billie Eilish’s new theme song for the 25th Bond film, he’s a little exhausted. And doesn’t that make a strange kind of sense? How does a martini-swilling, womanizing International Man of Mystery come out unscathed by …
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Snoop Dogg publicly apologized to Gayle King on Wednesday after he verbally attacked her on social media for bringing up the rape allegations against the late Kobe Bryant in an interview with WNBA’s Lisa Leslie. In an interview clip from CBS This Morning last week, King asked Leslie if she …
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Pearl Jam will play New York City for the first time in three years — at the Apollo Theater in Harlem March 26th. The event will be hosted by SiriusXM and Pandora. The concert will air live on Pearl Jam’s SiriusXM channel, Pearl Jam Radio, while right after the station …
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Katy Perry was named as an ambassador of the British Asian Trust at the charity’s annual Royal Dinner by Prince Charles, the Royal Founding Patron. The central focus of the event was anti-trafficking, with the Trust, which was founded in 2007, announcing its aim to develop the largest anti-trafficking fund …
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Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, and Tony Banks attended a Knicks-Lakers game together at Madison Square Garden last week, giving the rumors of Genesis contemplating a reunion tour a tiny shred of credibility. It’s quite possible the old friends were merely in town to celebrate Collins’ 69th birthday, or to see …
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Saturday Night Live returned following a holiday break with Adam Driver on hosting duties and Halsey as the show’s musical guest for the first episode of the 2020s. Clad in a bedazzled leather bodysuit with a rhinestone-encrusted cowboy hat, Halsey opened her performance riding a mechanical bull while delivering a …
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