Billie Lourd paid tribute to her late mother, Carrie Fisher, by playing a heartfelt rendition of “These Days.” The song appears on Nico’s 1967 debut solo album, Chelsea Girl, and was written by Jackson Browne. Lourd shared her cover via Instagram on Thursday, which marked the second anniversary of Fisher’s …
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The Dow Jones Industrial Index fell more than 400 points on Monday morning, continuing a downward trend, despite efforts by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to calm investors’ nerves. In an unusual move, Mnuchin made a series of phone calls on Sunday to six banks to make sure they had enough …
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Less than three weeks before Lin-Manuel Miranda returns to the title role in Hamilton for the hit musical’s Puerto Rico residency, the production has announced a venue change due to security concerns. The three-week Puerto Rico production of Hamilton, with Miranda back in the lead role for the first time …
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Every Friday, we’re recommending an older movie available to stream or download and worth seeing again through the lens of our current moment. We’re calling the series “Revisiting Hours“— consider this Rolling Stone’s unofficial film club. This week’s special, the weekend-before-Xmas-and-all-through-the-house edition: Alan Scherstuhl on the last word in great-man …
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President Trump announced on Wednesday that ISIS had been defeated in Syria and that there was no longer any reason for American troops to be stationed there. Trump had spoken before about his desire to bring troops out of Syria, but the tweet announcing the decision came as a shock. …
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Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Hudson delivered a heavenly duet of the holiday standard “O Holy Night” on The Voice’s season 15 finale Tuesday night, trading powerful notes in a made-for-TV moment that felt festive in all the right places. Appearing on a candlelit stage — Clarkson in a glittering black …
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Bob Dylan and T Bone Burnett are collaborating with Americana group Bear and a Banjo on their new eight-song project, Variety reports. Dylan contributed lyrics to the project’s “Gone But Not Forgotten.” The project is due in early 2019. Bear and a Banjois a two-man band of Jared Gutstadt, the …
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All rise for the miracle that is To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway. Aaron Sorkin has adapted Harper’s Lee’s benchmark 1960 novel of growing up in a racially segregated, hate-charged, Depression-era Alabama so that it adheres to the granular specificity of the past while speaking to the harsh realities of …
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Four years after Downton Abbey‘s television run ended, the acclaimed British historical drama will return in 2019 as a big screen feature film. Focus Features will revive the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning series, which ran on the U.K.’s ITV and PBS’ Masterpiece Theatre from 2010 to 2015. The Downton Abbey …
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A new report from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) assessing overdose deaths from 2011 to 2016 offers further evidence of fentanyl’s impact on the ever-worsening opioid crisis. The report also emphasizes what public health experts have been saying for years —that most people who suffer fatal overdoses have …
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