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5 hours agoAnderson .Paak Brings the Party to the Met Gala
DJ Pee .Wee, Anderson .Paak's alter ego, embodies fun and creativity, especially at high-profile events like the Met Gala.
Stanley Clarke emphasized the serendipitous nature of launching the Santa Monica International Jazz Festival, which coincides with a significant rise in jazz's popularity in Los Angeles.
The first of five waves of cyclists burst across the starting line in lower Manhattan at 7:30 a.m. The weather this year was markedly better than during the 2025 bike tour, when cyclists had to deal with a rainy ride.
Public Opinion recently announced their new album The Curse of Public Opinion, and they brought out Vinnie Caruana of The Movielife and I Am the Avalanche to join them on the song he features on, 'Modern Convenience.'
Frederick Douglass' journey to Belfast in 1845 was transformative, as he found an unlikely sense of belonging there, declaring he would 'always have a home' in the city.
We don't really go on location all that often, so when we got the phone call that we were going to New York, that was really exciting to hear and such an honor that we got chosen to do that and do this storyline.
The live footage is an immersive split-screen film whose edit was overseen by Sean Ono Lennon, showcasing historical performances that were Lennon's only full-length concerts after the Beatles' split.
The Jamie Lloyd-directed Evita is officially coming to Broadway with Rachel Zegler reprising her role as Eva. This production debuted in 2025 at the London Palladium, where it was a breakout success, winning Zegler the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
The contemporary music, thanks mostly to WindSync's commissions, arrangements and varied stage performance, lifted the show even further.
Freedom of expression is taken each time silence feels safer than speech, each time convenience outweighs conviction, each time we mistake the absence of punishment for the presence of freedom.