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3 Party Rock Tracks From the Early 1990s We Can’t Live Without
American Songwriter has published a short feature highlighting three party-oriented rock tracks from the early 1990s that the outlet considers essential listening. The piece is a nostalgic, opinion-led list rather than a news story, celebrating songs it argues defined high-energy party rock at the start of the decade. The three tracks featured are “You Could…
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Hang Time review – a chilling picture of the horrors of racial violence
Hang Time, staged at the Royal Lyceum theatre as part of the Edinburgh international festival, presents three men engaged in a casual, all-male conversation reminiscent of everyday bar chat, only to reveal through stark staging that they are victims of lynching. Written and directed by Zora Howard for New York’s Flea theatre, the production uses…
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Dolly Parton shares health update with fans after “hard times”
Dolly Parton has given fans a health update, revealing she is still recovering from issues that forced her to cancel her upcoming Las Vegas residency. The country music icon, who has been open about how grief following the death of her husband Carl Dean last March affected her physical health, said she had neglected her…
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Netflix’s Military Sci-Fi Sleeper Hit Is Officially Back in the Spotlight 10 Years Later
Netflix’s 2016 sci-fi thriller “Spectral” has resurfaced as a popular streaming pick nearly a decade after its release, highlighting an era when the platform relied heavily on acquiring films other studios had passed on rather than producing its own originals. The film centres on a DARPA engineer who joins an elite Special Operations unit to…
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DHS starts deportation flights after end to remaining protections for TPS holders
Lower court judges have now fully lifted certain limitations on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the wake of a Supreme Court decision that cleared the end of temporary protected status (TPS), removing any final roadblock to deportations. A federal judge earlier this week lifted the final stay that barred immigration officials from carrying…
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The 2007 role that almost destroyed Patrick Stewart: “It would end with me being fucked”
Patrick Stewart has revealed that a 2007 West End production of Macbeth pushed him to his physical and emotional limits, arriving at a moment when both his major franchises had stalled. Star Trek’s film future was uncertain after Nemesis flopped in 2002, and his X-Men character Professor X had just been killed off in 2006’s…
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Washington DC IndyCar Grand Prix scheduled for 23 August
The 2026 IndyCar Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington, D.C. took place as scheduled, with practice and qualifying on Saturday 22 August followed by the main race on Sunday 23 August. The event, round 15 of the IndyCar season, was run on a street circuit around the National Mall and formed part of the series’…
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‘Embryonic’: lost novel by French film-maker Éric Rohmer is republished
An English translation of Élisabeth, a 1946 novel written by French New Wave director Éric Rohmer under a pseudonym years before he turned to film-making, has been republished and is receiving enthusiastic reviews. Critics and scholars are hailing it as both a lost modernist work in its own right and a revealing precursor to the…
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“If I could start again, I’d pick up a saucepan rather than a guitar.” CJ Wildheart on his new album, career choices, and his relationship with Ginger
Chris “CJ” Jaghdar, a founding member of The Wildhearts who had two spells in the band before an acrimonious split in 2022, has spoken about his eighth solo album, Devil, and the possibility of a reunion with the band. The interview touches on his career choices, his musical direction, and his relationship with former bandmate…