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‘Trump Promenade’: President adds yet another pet project to his renovation agenda

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‘Trump Promenade’: President adds yet another pet project to his renovation agenda

The Hill reported this week that Republican officials, worried about the midterm elections and maintaining partisan control, have been “thrown off-balance” by, among other things, Donald Trump’s focus on “pet projects” instead of more meaningful national priorities. The GOP concerns are understandable. Unfortunately for the party, however, the president is still adding new distractions to … Read more

See Bruce Springsteen Play With Kenny Chesney at ‘Music America’ Show

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See Bruce Springsteen Play With Kenny Chesney at ‘Music America’ Show

Bruce Springsteen celebrated the American semiquincentennial, and the upcoming opening of the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music, by performing Thursday night at the ‘Music America: The Songs that Shaped Us’ concert at the Oceanfirst Bank Center in Monmouth, New Jersey, where he shared the bill with Roseanne Cash, Kenny Chesney, Shemekia Copeland, Dropkick Murphy’s, … Read more

Nick Holt on Tribeca Doc ‘AI: Probably Nothing to Worry About’

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Nick Holt on Tribeca Doc ‘AI: Probably Nothing to Worry About’

AI as we know it has been used for everything from making full-length feature films to solving nearly impossible math problems. But today AI is also, relatively speaking, just a child. That said, AI is a child that has learned languages, how to play games, how to blackmail people, how to power robots and, in … Read more

Independent Film Company, Shudder Buy ‘Breeder’ Ahead of Tribeca Debut

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Independent Film Company, Shudder Buy ‘Breeder’ Ahead of Tribeca Debut

Independent Film Company and Shudder have acquired Alex Goyette’s debut feature “Breeder.” The film is about an eccentric poodle breeder who lures a broke college student to her remote ranch with a promise of research funding. As he soon learns, there’s a catch. “Breeder” stars Daniel Doheny, Dot Marie Jones, Maddie Phillips, and Tanaya Beatty. … Read more

Katie Holmes on Her Joshua Jackson Reunion for Happy Hours

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Katie Holmes on Her Joshua Jackson Reunion for Happy Hours

Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson met nearly three decades ago on the seminal teen drama “Dawson’s Creek,” which launched them and their co-stars, James Van Der Beek and Michelle Williams, to global stardom. When Holmes and Jackson reconnected all these years later on “Happy Hours,” a romantic dramedy that premieres Saturday at Tribeca Festival, they … Read more

Allen Ginsberg: The Queer Poet Who Changed America

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Allen Ginsberg: The Queer Poet Who Changed America

This week is the centenary of Allen Ginsberg, the gay, Jewish, Buddhist, Socialist writer who for decades was America’s most public poet. He used his presence as both an outsider and a celebrity to challenge wars, capitalism, censorship, and the codified marginalization of the underserved in this country. He altered the literary canon by presenting … Read more

Andy Cohen on ‘Watch What Happens Live,’ the ‘Real Housewives’ and His TV Legacy: ‘I Have Bucked the System and Won’

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Andy Cohen on ‘Watch What Happens Live,’ the ‘Real Housewives’ and His TV Legacy: ‘I Have Bucked the System and Won’

Andy Cohen has an uncomplicated answer to how he gets everything on his to-do list done. “I just hit my deadlines,” the host, producer and author says nonchalantly, as if his day-to-day consists of sending emails and building pitch decks rather than what it actually entails: emceeing his four-days-a-week SiriusXM radio show; anchoring the five-times-a-week … Read more

Hegseth’s Pentagon slashes the number of religious faiths it officially recognizes

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Hegseth’s Pentagon slashes the number of religious faiths it officially recognizes

To a degree without modern precedent, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has used his powerful office to advance a Christian nationalist agenda. In recent months, Americans have seen him lead Christian prayer services in the Pentagon’s auditorium, invite radical Christian nationalist figures to speak at official prayer services, use social media to promote messages that suggest … Read more

Kylie Minogue Netflix Doc Shows Why We Can’t Get Her Out of Our Heads

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Kylie Minogue Netflix Doc Shows Why We Can’t Get Her Out of Our Heads

The world has caught Kylie fever all over again. The new Netflix documentary Kylie is more than just a celebrity portrait — it’s a tribute to the bizarrely unkillable allure of Kylie Minogue. Stars come and go, but somehow Kylie has kept shimmying on forever. That isn’t how it’s supposed to go for dance-floor princesses—especially … Read more